Analysis Of Marco Williams's Banished: A History Of African American Expulsion
The documentary Marco Williams's Banished: A History of African American Expulsion (2007), illustrates the impact that racial/ethnic genocides on current African-Americans in Georgia and Missouri. The blacks were not ordered to leave because they commited a crime or immoral actions; they were forced out because of their ethnicity and skin color, which perfectly defines a racial cleansing. There were once over 1000 blacks living in Forsyth county; these numbers quickly dropped to less than 30 after the massive racial cleansings in the early 1900s.There was no acknowledgement that the black people were run out of the town and the evidence of stolen land was covered up. Similar actions also occured in Pierce City, Missouri were African Americans were either killed in lynch mobs or forced out their homes violently by the white community.
Whites start using the land has if it is theirs, and after a …show more content…
There are still Africans who come back to these banished communities. In their eyes, the land is sacred, so they come back and tend to it so it can appear as it once was. It is land that should have been passed down to future generations, but this opportunity of stripped.
There were barely any articles or written pieces that discussed what was happening, even to this day. Murray Stringer-Bishoff wrote an article in 1991 discussing the significance of the genocide (90 years after the 1901 banishment), which angered the elderly citizens in Pierce City. The culture of Pierce City evolved from the eviction of the Africans from the city. The film uses the town’s vocabulary has an example. The word nigger is a natural part of vocabulary, with people of even the highest social status using the word with little
Whites start using the land has if it is theirs, and after a …show more content…
There are still Africans who come back to these banished communities. In their eyes, the land is sacred, so they come back and tend to it so it can appear as it once was. It is land that should have been passed down to future generations, but this opportunity of stripped.
There were barely any articles or written pieces that discussed what was happening, even to this day. Murray Stringer-Bishoff wrote an article in 1991 discussing the significance of the genocide (90 years after the 1901 banishment), which angered the elderly citizens in Pierce City. The culture of Pierce City evolved from the eviction of the Africans from the city. The film uses the town’s vocabulary has an example. The word nigger is a natural part of vocabulary, with people of even the highest social status using the word with little