Leaflet promotes boycotting the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" and pickets at the Elmwood Theater in Berkeley and the Vogue Theater in San Francisco. The leaflet critiques the film, saying it reinforces the racist notion that African people are only noble in extreme isolation, not in their complex, real world. Filmmaker Jamie Uys, a white South African, trivializes apartheid. The international popularity of the film indicates that racism is acceptable to people. The U.S. government and multinational corporations play a major role in propping up apartheid, so we have a responsibility to challenge them. The San people depicted in the film (a Black nation, otherwise known as...
Leaflet promotes boycotting the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" and pickets at the Elmwood Theater in Berkeley and the Vogue Theater in San Francisco. The leaflet critiques the film, saying it reinforces the racist notion that African people are only noble in extreme isolation, not in their complex, real world. Filmmaker Jamie Uys, a white South African, trivializes apartheid. The international popularity of the film indicates that racism is acceptable to people. The U.S. government and multinational corporations play a major role in propping up apartheid, so we have a responsibility to challenge them. The San people depicted in the film (a Black nation, otherwise known as "Bushmen") are one of the oldest civilizations on earth; the film's attitude toward them is patronizing and ignores their near-extinction as a result of European colonialism of South Africa. The leaflet explains the inequalities in South Africa that the film does not show. Partial list of endorsers includes the Bay Area Free South Africa Movement, San Francisco Anti-Apartheid, the All Peoples Congress, and Art Against Apartheid. Slogans on the leaflet include LET'S UNITE AGAINST APARTHEID, ISOLATE SOUTH AFRICA ON EVERY FRONT, DON'T SPEND MONEY ON SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCTS, LET'S MAKE A CHOICE BY BOYCOTTING THIS FILM, AND SUPPORT PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE-FIGHT APARTHEID HERE and IN SOUTH AFRICA.
