Film Screening: The Facade of the American Dream
Date and Time
Feb 25, 2019 6:00 pm
Location
Brookland
625 Monroe St NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20017
Feb 25, 2019 6:00 pm
Brookland
Please join us in the Pearl Bailey Room for a screening of the documentary The Facade of the American Dream.
This is the story of the people who have existed and thrived in their land for thousands and thousands of years before they were kidnapped, tortured, chained, raped, and enslaved. These are the Africans who were stolen from their motherland and civilization and had everything taken from them including their language, culture, religion, family, and identity.Â
Tens of millions of these native Africans died during the enslavement. The descendants of those enslaved black people are today’s African-Americans. The people who had to fight hard against social segregation and for racial equality until Finally, not too many years ago, were their rights recognized... at least on paper. Black People are still being heavily discriminated against and are disproportionately the subjects of police brutality and judicial injustice. They make up the great majority of inmates in the U.S., where more than any other country, people are incarcerated in the privatized prison industry. They are being systematically treated as second-class citizens.
The film was made in 2013 and executive produced by Marzieh Hashemi, the African American Muslim woman Journalist who was detained and held recently for over a week by the US government, for Press TV. Â
