500 Years Later

500 Years Later
by Owen Alik Shahadah

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Actor: Dr. Kimani Nehusi, Maulana Karenga, Molefi Kete Asante, Paul Robeson, Trevor Marshall
Director: Owen Alik Shahadah
Brand: Uni
Composer: Tunde Jegede
Editor: Ocacia Askia Shahadah
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Code Black Ent

DVD Reviews of 500 Years Later

DVD Review: A fool is among us...
Summary: 5 Stars

And its truly what documentaries like this are made for idiots like Donald Peyton from Virginia. But I'm sure he is a card carrying member of the Jewish Holocaust Museum. Sad to say he is JUST the reason we need this type of literature circulating..GREAT MATERIAL!!!

DVD Review: A LONG NARRATIVE OF VICTIMHOOD
Summary: 2 Stars

I waited in vain for some useful information, or some new or original insights.....instead;from begining to end the film remained mired down in "long narratives of victimhood". The tone was one of hopelessness and despair. Only rarely did a fleeting positive perspective manage to rise above the noise of long dreary antedotes and self-deprecating opinions. In the background, sad and melodramatic sounds of violins (European style) only added to the sense of depression and gloom.
At times, one would think they were watching a typical 5:30 evening news telling us of the "crises in the inner city". Bill Cosby even spewed out his criticism of African people in America more than once. Babies out of wedlock. Jail populations; you have heard it all before!! We all know that Bill Cosby remains silent when he has a chance to criticize the powerful.
I guess it is so much safer to criticize poor uneducated Black women.....
I was on the verge of turning off the DVD player when I saw a picture of several of Diop's books. Maybe an informative interview with some new presenters, maybe this will mark a shift in tone and outlook. Maybe Paul Robeson Jr. would speak about his father . Maybe Maulana Karenga will talk about Ifa or Maat, or maybe Asante will offer helpful insights from the works of Diop or Obenga.....? Maybe Dr. Obenga would be interviewed.....Maybe someboby would rise out of the mire and speak boldly and confidently in the spirit of Diop or Garvey or Malcolm.
I waited only to be dissapointed when the long line of dreary presenters ,from various parts of the world, started all over again: "we need to do this....or that"... One obscure musician with a British accent and a sad and depressed look on his face, managed to mumble something about"other people" do this why can't black people..... This transatlantic PITY PARTY went on and on and on with a seemingly endless number of depressing observations and whining opinions.
They all seem to have been chosen for the severity of their depression or the complexity of their neurosis.
Most of them seemed dead on a cultural, spiritual and intellectual level. Perhaps they had one foot in and one foot out of the Euro-centric intellectual paradigm, and thats enough to depress and confuse anybody!!! Did they want the Western world to validate their opinions? They seemed troubled and trying to convince themselves that they really believed Diop.

Finally it was over. And a pensive and weary Dr. Molefi Asante appeared on screen and uttered with force and conviction,a refreshing Diopian closing statement, but it was far too little and far too late to save this long, sorry, dreary film.
May I have my money back please!!!!

DVD Review: A Very Intelligent, Thought-provoking Documentary
Summary: 5 Stars

A critically acclaimed documentary that has won Best Film and Best Documentary in four separate film festivals world-wide. Black professors, psychologists, artists, and writers from around the world give very frank, thought-provoking commentaries about the residual effects of the slave culture on Blacks worldwide: Americans, Africans, Barbadan, Brits, French, etc. It starts with a brief recap of slave history that everyone knows about then expounds further on how the institutionalization of blacks into Western white culture and a disconnection from African roots has psychologically left a dramatic void in the Black identity. The documentary very frankly and intellectually addresses this condition, its reasons, it effects, it causes, the social and psychological impact and uplifts us to embrace being black but realizing the necessity to reconnect with our African Identity and values as African peoples. Education, of course, is the very key to that., and how the lack of it kills the ability of our advancement.

Highly recommended, well-researched documentary that is a must see.

Description of 500 Years Later

Crime, poor education, poverty, self hatred, incarceration, broken homes plague people of African descent globally, why? From the onset of the African Holocaust of enslavement and colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom. Filmed in five continents, 500 Years Later is a critically acclaimed multi award winning timeless and compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation. It chronicles the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right self determination.

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