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The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 is a 2011 documentary film, directed by Göran Olsson, that examines the
evolution of the Black Power movement in American society from 1967 to 1975 as viewed through Swedish
journalists and filmmaker. This film consists of footage shot by Swedish reporters in 1967-1975. It does not
presume to tell the whole story of the Black Power Movement but to show it was perceived by some Swedish
filmmakers.
1967
1. Swedes wanted to understand and portray that America through sound and image – as it really is.
2. Poet, Abiodun Oyewole, believes that there wouldn’t be an America if it wasn’t for Black People.
3. Black Power Activist Stokely Carmichael 1967 believes that the United States does not have a conscience.
4. According to Talib Kweli, Stokely Carmichael understood what his job was very early, and he understood
his job was still important to Dr. King but the first to speak about Black Power.
5. Stokely Carmichael believed that those who refused to deal with non-violent civil rights activists like Dr.
King just means they have to deal with this young generation.
6. Mable Carmichael, Stokely’s mom, feels like she is dying every time he is arrested.
7. Mable Carmichael’s husband believed that he was unable to get consistent employment in America since
he was a colored man.
8. Stokley Carmichael means he has always been in jail when he says that he was born in jail.
9. Rapper Talib Kweli believed that he was questioned by the FBI in 2010 because the FBI is still scared of
Carmichael.
10. According to Kweli, we have rappers who are talking about shooting each other and killing, but the FBI
is not looking for that. “They are looking at me because I am listening to a speech from 40 years ago.” It
shows you the power of those words.
1968
11. According to musician Questlove, Martin Luther King was really assassinated since he was trying to take a
stronger position.
12. According to Professor Angela Davis, Martin Luther King Jr. the first prominent public
figure to speak out against the war in Vietnam.
13. According to actor Harry Belafonte, Dr. King was not concerned with how long he would live but with
the quality or time of his life.
14. According to Belafonte, some of the things that King believed that all people including Blacks should have
access to welfare, well being of human life, economics, employment, health with no charge, and education
for free.
15. According to Belafonte, all these things now put a huge bullseye on Dr. King’s back because he was now
tampering with the playground of the wealthy.
16. In 1968 Martin Luther King Jr., Democratic Presidential Candidate Robert Kennedy, Civil Rights Leader
Medgar Evars and Activists, Mark Clark and Fred Hampton were killed…. According to Stokley
Carmichael, when White America killed Dr. King last night, he declared war on us.
17. According to Arnold Stahl, by using no violence Dr. King exposed the demons of America.
18. According to Malcolm X, if a black man tried to stand up and defend himself against racism during that
time, he is considered an extremist.
19. According to Erykah Badu, some childhood songs taught African Americans to not to question their
government.
20. According to Elbridge Cleaver, Minister of Information, Black Panther Party political candidates of that
time continued to represent the very worst tradition that was ever to crawl beneath the rock of this country,
this bankrupt country.
1969
21. According to Swedish Reporter Orjan Oberg, The Black Panther Party are the most militant black
organization in the USA.
22. According to Black Party members, the real issue is not just racism, but capitalism.
23. The Black Panther Party started in Oakland California and was known to be confrontational against evil and
violence.
