"American Skin"

This movie!!! This production!! The cast! It was woven together as intricately as the Most High did each creation that brought this production to life. It is layered with a multitude of issues plaguing American society and with clear justication/evidence presented in the monlogues and dialogue. The cast was multicultural in a macro and micro perspective. This film's characters and complexities is a microcosm of America 🇺🇸...the America that many want to sweep under the rug and continue to "do business as usual". And, as those who like to put on airs when the company comes, i.e., when the rest of the world 🌎 is watching, black brown, idegenous, women, the disenfranchised, CONTINUOUSLY find ways to highlight that unwanted child that AMERICA tried to abort without considering a possibility that the ghost would haunt because no amount of bleach can clean its hands. Since America continues to partake in the same habits, in one form of another, it will always be addicted; thereby never renewing its mind and heart, collectively and individually, to change the systems and processes that placed its feet in the stirrups. 

We can continue to break glass ceilings from a minority point of view. We can continue to put women and men of different colors, ethnicities, and religious backgrounds into positions that, ostensibly, can create change. We can. I'm hopeful because that is the type of person I am. With that being stated, the character slain in "American Skin" could have easily been Kamala Harris or Barack Obama's son if he was blessed with one. Their son could have been in a 1995 Honda rolling through suburbia. It could have easily been Justice Sonia Sotamayor's grandson, covered in great body art, riding with his friends in a fine tuned vehicle that doesn't fit Mar-a-Lago. They could have just as easily been placed in the ground or an urn ⚱.  

While I recognize and appreciate the strides that have been made in America, I MUST also remain cognizant that inequities and inequalities exist within the system. 

Kuddos to the cast, filmmakers, and producers for making THIS film and debuting it during THIS appointed time in history. It shall not be forgotten.

Just as the plot thickened and created space for people to, inherently, check themselves, their biases, prejudice, and stereotypes, it is the HOPE that it will for viewers of the film 🎥.  

If it does...if it does...when it does!!! 

Until tomorrow...America...we are no greater than the next...no pedestals...the time is NOW for accountability.