The social contract is an expression that is used in philosophy, political science, and sociology in reference to a real or hypothetical agreement made within a group by its members, such as that acquired in a State in relation to the rights and duties of the State and are the citizens. Part of the idea that all members of the group voluntarily accept the social contract, by virtue of which they admit the existence of laws to which they submit. The social pact is an explanatory hypothesis of political authority and social order.

Anybody who is a member of a community and has full rights counts as a full citizen. It implies feeling part of a social and political structure and above all, it is to assume responsibilities and obligations in the construction of a society. Being a full citizen gives you a wonderful power: the ability to be able to carry out activities with total autonomy, making responsible decisions in the social context in which you find yourself. Likewise, it is having the ability to assume obligations to society in various areas.

The project that James Baldwin undertook is a film that is structured through texts, interviews, and conferences of him. He chooses to talk about the lives of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Medgar Evers because they are referents of the struggle for civil rights in the United States, African American wrestlers, friends of Baldwin, and all three murdered before reaching 40. Some data that Baldwin left written in his unfinished book ‘Remember this house’, of only 30 pages that Peck used to shape his documentary.

This film has so many reflections that today have enormous validity, and that are linked to the Black Lives Matter movement against the injustices that the black community still faces: against the easy unleashing of the police against black children; against the difficulty of the courts to condemn certain actions when the victim is black and the accused is white, against the extremely high unemployment rate of blacks, and so many other situations that continue to demonstrate the social and institutional racism that still persists despite advances.