When Racial Injustice Hits Close to Home: Wilmington on Fire
Tune in to hear Chris Everett, director of Wilmington on Fire, tell the untold story of the only successful coup d'etat in US history and how an event over 100 years ago sent shockwaves across the nation that are still being felt today.
0:00 Episode starts
0:43 Personal check-ins start
5:45 Rob brings up guest Chris Everett, director of Wilmington on Fire
6:00 Chris joins the conversation
7:27 Rob introduces Chris Everett
9:08 Jes reads the synopsis of Wilmington on Fire
10:58 Jes asks Chris about his story
12:41 Chris talks about growing up having to do book reports and learning a lot about history
13:01 Chris talks about doing a project for school on Wilmington and discovering how little is told
14:18 Rob asks how he found all this information and why specifically this documentary
14:27 Chris talks about his uncle living in Wilmington and initially hearing about it from him
19:41 Jes asks how you bring the story to life and how long it took in the whole process
21:22 Chris recommends Banish, about racial massacres in the South
23:29 Chris mentions the people who helped him create the story
26:53 Interlude
29:40 Rob asks what makes the documentary so crucial at this point in history
30:56 Chris talks about the rise of conscious to elevate these stories
35:07 Jes asks about the biggest injustice in the story
35:19 Chris talks about how this was hidden to American citizens and nothing was done to correct the wrongs which led to people not knowing their full histories
37:25 Chris talks about how their has not been restitutions for this event
41:25 Rob asks what people would take away and what change it could spark
42:09 Chris hopes this film would be motivation for people to find out about their family’s histories
45:58 Jes asks how listeners can put what they learned into practice
46:07 Chris encourages listeners to vote
47:29 Chris talks about Wilmington 2 and the focus being the present of fusion movement
51:26 Chris mentions his martial arts documentary called Grand Master and getting accepted into a documentary fellowship lab
53:25 Chris signs off the conversation
53:47 Rob talks about recentering his framework that this happened because of the good of multiracial coalitions were happening
55:51 Jes talks about talking about anti-racism because of the importance of recognizing the trauma around a people who are our neighbors
1:00:32 Rob encourages listeners to watch the documentary and this address their own stories
1:02:22 Conversation ends
1:02:23 Outro
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