This is a compelling and honest journey into America's past by a southern white film-maker who shares her thoughts and feelings about white privilege and the "shadow" that has been cast upon America from the evils of the enslavement of Africans, including how Wall Street was designed to facilitate the slave trade and much more. This film should be a part of the curriculum of every American history class and taught in all institutions of influence. It is a gift - for a person such as Frances Causey - to share her life as a genesis to discuss the everlasting effects of two examples of state-sponsored institutional racism (slavery and Jim Crow) on modern American life and how the descendants of enslaved Africans are treated today.
Review of The Long Shadow
