{"id":10608,"date":"2020-03-16T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2020-04-27T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:31:31","slug":"queen-slim-doing-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/16\/queen-slim-doing-the-right-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEEN & SLIM Doing The Right Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘The problem still exists’: Queen and Slim a modern-day call to arms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Richard Jinman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenwriter Lena Waithe (left) and director Melina Matsoukas on the set of Queen and Slim.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It is 30 years since Spike Lee\u2019s incendiary third movie Do The Right Thing<\/em> shone a harsh light on the killing of black Americans by police. Radio Raheem, who is choked to death in the film\u2019s climatic scene, was a fictional character, but his violent death at the hands of baton-wielding cops felt very real in a country where African Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little has changed in the three decades since Lee released his call to arms, says Lena Waithe, the writer and producer of\u00a0Queen and Slim<\/em>, a provocative new film about two black Americans who go on the run after killing a white police officer in self-defence. She regards\u00a0Do The Right Thing<\/em>\u00a0as a landmark movie and says the issues it highlighted in 1989 are far from resolved. \u201cWe can\u2019t deny that we are still dealing with these things,\u201d says the 35-year-old, who is best known as one of the stars of the Netflix comedy-drama\u00a0Master of None<\/em>. \u201cThe fact that law enforcement is not necessarily on our side and we feel like we are being hunted is both scary and sad. Black people are still making movies about this problem because the problem still exists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melina Matsoukas, the director of Queen and Slim<\/em>, nods in agreement. \u201cIt\u2019s modern-day lynching,\u201d she says quietly. \u201cAs a black person, seeing your family, your community being murdered on a daily basis has an emotional impact. It\u2019s like PTSD. It could be your mother, your sister, your father, your aunt, your husband or your wife. Seeing these people that you don\u2019t know, but have a kinship with, [being killed] on the nightly news, creates an emotional stress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The frequency with which black people are killed by police and the apparent impunity the US judicial system grants officers who kill in the line of duty, led\u00a0to the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013. But the bloodshed continues. In 2015 a record number of young black men \u2013 1134 in total \u2013 were killed by law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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