The purpose of a society based on a social contract is for the people in the higher positions or in a more favorable position to benefit from the people under them, however, the way it’s intended to be used is to keep things balanced or as close to it as possible. Within our society, it is used for those people above to maintain their power and keep control over the people. Trevor Noah addresses it as a contract that black people have signed that hasn’t been upheld. The thing that connects for me is that the social contract can be viewed as one with fine print that allows certain transgressions against black people.

James Baldwin’s film entails the lives of 3 of the most influential people within the Civil Rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and Medgar Evans dedicated a large portion of their lives to fight for the cause and in the end, even died for it. Throughout the documentary, there are explanations of their views as well as the approach they would use to further their cause. With these included, there are highlights of the effectiveness as well as the difficulties with their approaches

The film just enhances what I already know about the black struggle and it’s a lot to take in on how times change but then again they don’t change. The people who spent their lives fighting for a cause for it to succeed after they die but then and it replaced with some other form of racial inequality. It appears it also gets harder to combat certain things such as systematic racism.