South Africa’s Anant Singh Expresses Hope and Anger in Black Lives Matter Letter
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variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefVeteran South African filmmaker Anant Singh has penned an open letter comparing the problems of racism within his own country with the killings of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks at the hands of police in the U.S.The letter, which he calls “All Lives Matter, Especially Black Lives,” is published on the 44th anniversary of the Soweto uprising, in which 69 people were killed by South African police.
It is both angry and surprisingly hopeful.“No matter how powerful, armed and hateful the regime was, we always knew that one day our freedom would come,” Singh said of the forces that threw Nelson Mandela into jail for 27 years between 1962 and 1990.
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