Sneak Peek: CJ Hunt Podcast

CJ Hunt: I think if I didn't appear on camera, and I was just like, “Welcome to the film, now, let's talk about white supremacy. Here are the documents. Here is the footage.” You know, there's a way that that can be overwhelming. It's not that we're putting sugar in the medicine, but we're just changing the language with which we have the convo. You know, the language is just you spending 82 minutes watching a character who is me stumbling his way through this mystery. Through this mystery of how I came to see the world, of how Confederate monuments moved from graveyards to dominate our public spaces, this mystery about how the United Daughters of the Confederacy literally rewrote history and inserted a version of propaganda into textbooks that we still believe is history, you know? There you are just watching me make mistakes and stumble and grow and find myself. And I think that that is ultimately a more engaging viewing experience, and allows people the grace to change their opinions than if I, as the filmmaker, was just like, “Look at the documents, look at what you did.”