The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Black Culture: Then and Now In order to fully get a clear picture of Black culture in America, you have to know the history of where it came from to understand what it has evolved into today. The very informative documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 directed by Göran Olsson, a Swedish filmmaker, gives the viewer documented evidence of the history of Black culture in America. To compare and contrast the movement from then to now is in to say the least, personally important to me because I’m looking at the progress through the eyes of a black person who knows the struggle of the Black Power Movement to analyse it from three different perspectives: the economic impact of it, the knowledge from it, and how it has changed today. From an economic perspective of Black culture in America, 400 years ago it was unfair and it still is today. To start, Black people were only tools of America as free labor to build the economy as slaves, and during 1967-1975 Black people were still treated unequally in the workplace and they still are. From the movie, the mother of Stokely Carmichael, a Black activist, had stated that because her husband was a “colored” man, he was paid less and always the first to be laid off. In comparison, today it is hard for
To one group, he was identified as “African-American,” and another was told he was “Black.” With little else to go on, they were asked to estimate Mr. Williams’s salary, professional standing, and educational background. The “African-American” group estimated that he earned about $37,000 a year and had a two-year college degree. The “Black” group, on the other hand, put his salary at about $29,000, and guessed that he had only "some" college experience. Nearly three-quarters of the first group guessed that Mr. Williams worked at a managerial level, while 38.5 percent of the second group thought