Black Studies

The mankind has witnessed numerous examples of outstanding personalities, who were enough strong to defend own beliefs, notwithstanding sufferings that had to meet. The “Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin” enables people to take the look at life of the great activist, who is mostly known as 1963 March on Washington leader. The main point of appropriate work seems pretty clear. Frankly, it can be determined as the intention to make Bayard’s values alive, to light out his greatness. In fact, the first goal of “Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin” can be recognized as creators’ wish to make Bayard’s philosophy understandable and closer to people. Thereby, multifaceted documentary style and predominating first-person speech are fully explained. The difficult life-story of Bayard Rustin, the life of “suspected communist and known homosexual subversive” and “refused to be silenced speaker” did not crush the man, who was in love to main liberal values. Talking about the beliefs, which were at the top of activist’s focus, the list looks rather clear: economic and human rights, belief in peace, nonviolence, dignity and total equality.
All of these items were incredibly relevant in 50’s and 60’s. However, are we encouraged to claim that these issues are irrelevant today? Seemingly, not. This is the main interpretation of “Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin” to nowadays reality. Racial and sexual discrimination did not lost its relevance, and “Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin” pushes watchers to pay attention to appropriate problem. The example of great person can serve as aspiration to unite people in common intention to break dreadful reality forever. If he did so much, why shouldn’t we try?