Film Review: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin.
Produced / Directed by Bennett Singer & Nancy D. Kates
DVD, 2008
Quaker leader Rufus Jones once intoned that pacifism is the “fiery positive”. A pacifist does not sit idly by, according to Jones, but directly engages in the affairs of the world. Bayard Rustin was the very embodiment of the fiery positive. Raised as a Quaker, the African-American Rustin excelled in academics and sports, reciting classical poetry to his football teammates after a hard tackle on the field. He went on to become one of the greatest American human rights activists of the twentieth century. Yet Rustin’s life has not been celebrated for one reason: he was openly gay.
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