Raoul Peck: “Racial hierarchy is the root of all genocides”

Haitian director Raoul Peck poses with his award for his documentary 'I am not your Negro' at the British Academy Film Awards in February 2018. (Illustration) © Ben Stansall/AFP

By: Elisabeth Lequeret Follow

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If it is true that it is always the victors who write history, that of the Western world is woven of things left unsaid, gray areas and lies.

And in this case, how to tell another story or rather how to tell the story differently? 

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It is a huge undertaking and a somewhat crazy ambition to return to popular and academic narratives to offer a counter-history: that of racism, violence, and hatred in the West, that of white supremacy or rather from the presumption of whites to supremacy, that which asserts itself from the conquest of the Americas to the genocide of the Incas, from slave ships to that night in May 2020 in Minneapolis when George Floyd was assassinated by a police officer.

This story is at the heart of "Exterminate all these brutes", the new film by Raoul Peck, a miniseries in four episodes broadcast on Arte.

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