“The Spook Who Sat by the Door” (1973)
Contributed by Dese (IG: @anything4ayay)
Length: 1 hr 43 mins
About the film:
“The book and subsequent film both came out during a climatic and intense time in Amerikkka for liberation and revolutionary activists.
Activist and Revolutionary groups such as the Black Panther Party, Move, and AIM were systematically being targeted and eliminated.
The FBI went and got the movie removed from most theaters and for years the only way to see it was bootlegged copies shared within the African community.
It's a clear example of code-switching, used to disguise one's intentions for the goal of gaining strategic and physical resources for disempowered and attacked communities.
the movie gives Good examples of how without revolutionary class consciousness one can easily become the gatekeepers and enforcers of the system against their own people.
It touches on Classism, Colorism and even briefly touches on Sexism.
And it clearly defines the cost and reality of what is needed for the revolutionary struggle.”
Other Relevant Media:
Nipsey Interview
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgP9Wkb5NLE
Attached below is the PDF of the 1969 Novel Written by Sam Greenlee
>> https://www.pdfdrive.com/the-spook-who-sat-by-the-door-a-novel-e19348116.html
written by: Dese
(IG: @anything4ayay)
Sources:
Natasha, Founder and Content Creator of Noire Histoir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spook_Who_Sat_by_the_Door_(film)
https://www.robertmitchellevans.com/uncategorized/sunday-night-movie-the-spook-who-sat-by-the-door/
Directed by Ivan Dixon
Written by Melvin Clay & Sam Greenlee
Based on a 1969 novel
written by Sam Greenlee
