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As @davidwblight1 points out, “it appears millions of people who don't want to live in this country of pluralism, don't want to live in this country of free and democratic elections that don't turn out their way.” What are the implications of this? #UTBxSundance

The “casting of heroes & villains, allows the rest of us observing & witnessing to distance ourselves from the everyday forms of white supremacy that don't have nooses, that don't have confederate flags,” says @ruha9. Wow. #StoryOfUs #UTBxSundance

Bryan Stevenson on the flawed American narratives of greatness: “We created a constitution that talked about equality and justice, but didn't extend to the millions of native people who were dying.” #StoryOfUs

David Blight (@davidwblight1) speaking on the failures of the Ku Klux Klan hearings of 1871 during #UTBxSundance. What are the lessons to be drawn from this American failure and other failures of reconciliation?

“If we think of storytelling as part of the DNA of humanity, then so much of this legacy of white supremacy is being baked into technologies that are having impact on every area of our lives,” warns @ruha9. #StoryOfUs #UTBxSundance

Viet Thanh Nguyen (@viet_t_nguyen) on American's collective preservation of innocence: “We are, as a nation, perpetually shocked every time something contradicts our mythology of ourselves.” #StoryOfUs

The idea of Hollywood as America's unofficial ministry of propaganda... In the modern era, in what ways does Hollywood continue to play this role? #StoryOfUs

“I don't think it's enough for storytellers to say, ‘Okay. We'll have to do better.’ No. You are obligated now to repair the damage you did with a half century of stories about native people that perpetuated these ideas that they were not fully human.” -Bryan Stevenson #StoryOfUs

Who is in position to narrate this new era? Who is writing our stories? We know that Black women, for example, are underrepresented throughout mediahttps://twitter.com/AAPolicyForum/status/1363932973360381952?s=20 …

Hollywood studios used the ban on miscegenation to justify the exclusion of non-white actors from employment #UTBxSundance #StoryOfUs

#UTBxSundance viewers: what are your favorite predictable tropes/characters/storylines in cinema's inability to represent race in America? @sandylocks went with Atticus Finch. We’ll retweet the best. #StoryOfUs

“If you're a minority in American society of whatever kind—racial, sexual, whatever—you live in a condition of narrative scarcity, which means that almost none of the stories are about you,” says @viet_t_nguyen. What are the impacts of this narrative scarcity?

"Imagination is a contested field of action," says @ruha9. "It's not an ephemeral afterthought that we have the luxury to dismiss or romanticize. Imagination is a resource, a battleground and input and output of technologies in social order." #StoryOfUs

"Most people are forced to live inside someone else's imagination. One of the things we have to come to grips w/ is how the nightmares that we see many people are forced to endure are really the underside of elite fantasies about efficiency, happiness, profit, social control."

"The real reckoning, I would say, is to welcome the discomfort, the pain, the habitual changes that need to happen, not just the spectacular ones that may get an academy award," says @ruha9 in her closing thoughts for #UTBxSundance.

Closing remarks from @sandylocks: “As we move into more uncertain territory as a nation, I hope that this conversation today can serve as a model for how we can look to our unjust past to build a more just future.” #UTBxSundance #StoryOfUs