I am concerned that there's a cavalier attitude to the Irish Peace Process. What poor memories some have; I remember only too well the bag searches, the bomb scares and deaths. As they say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.
When I was making 'Strong Island,' it was very clear to me that my brother's death was a point on a line that stretched back into the 1940s and beyond in my family - and in the nation.
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway retuning from an NAACP meeting in downtown Jackson. And then you go back there years later, and the blood is still on the driveway. They cannot wash it away.
There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
