flippant remarks about “The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)”
Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails hooked up with each other to share a story with the world about how an entire generation of descendants of enslaved Africans in a fictitious northern Californian family lie to themselves. So, flippantly, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is about how colored people lie to themselves.
By the way, flippantly, this is the Last Black Man in San Francisco:
This scene with Michael Epps is literally juxtaposed with Jimmie Fails bedding himself theatrically and cinematically in the attic of the house related to the big lie.
I was not aware that Joe Talbot was involved with this film until I saw this scene:
I haven’t seen something like this since the 1970s: the black person (often a woman) pleading at the bank (or some other white power structure), cinematically throwing black-self on the mercy of white liberalism. This move prompted me to investigate who actually put this work together and that is when I discovered the Talbot-Fails hookup.
Telling a story about how black people lie to themselves about their property ownership in particular and finances in general is worthy, fertile ground. However, here in the rasx() context, there are too many untold stories about how Black people hold on to the truth while their property is stolen and their finance is depleted by white liars ad white thieves. I am disappointed (but not surprised) that Mr. Fails participated and contributed to the world of ideas scaffolding this work of cinema.