'Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America': Film Review | SXSW 2021
“America has demonstrated its greatness time and time and time again,” proclaims ACLU attorney Jeffery Robinson from a stage early in the new documentary Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, “and America is one of the most racist countries on the face of this earth.” When he continues, “those two things are not mutually exclusive,” the audience erupts in applause. One gets the sense that the vast majority of the people who came to hear Robinson’s TED Talk-style lecture agreed with him before he uttered a word — a quality they’ll likely share with the viewers of the film version of his slideshow presentation.