{"id":34878,"date":"2024-01-02T07:21:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34878"},"modified":"2024-01-02T07:21:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T12:21:24","slug":"stamped-from-the-beginning-2023-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34878","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stamped from the Beginning&#8221; (2023) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z010224zview_stampedfromthebe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stamped from the Beginning <\/strong><\/em>(2023)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Roger Ross Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer:<strong> Ibram X. Kendi, David Teague<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Ibram X. Kendi<\/strong><strong>, Angela Davis<\/strong><strong>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Stamped from the Beginning<\/em> is based on Ibram X. Kendi&#8217;s book of the same name.\u00a0 Both explore the racist tropes, symbols and imagery ingrained in American culture throughout history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Often we get documentaries that are padded to fill out 4 or more episodes.\u00a0 <em>Stamped from the Beginning<\/em> clocks in at a brisk 85 minutes.\u00a0 The history of racism in the United States exploring racist tropes, symbols and imagery almost certainly could use a season (or more) of episodes.\u00a0 With that said, this documentary is informative in a fashion that keeps the viewer watching.\u00a0 I learned some facts and information about history (and historical figures) that were new to me.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>Stamped from the Beginning <\/strong><\/em>(2023) earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z010224zview_stampedfromthebe2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stamped from the Beginning (2023) Director: Roger Ross Williams Writer: Ibram X. Kendi, David Teague Stars: Ibram X. Kendi, Angela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,72,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34944,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34878\/revisions\/34944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}