And there may be some so-called liberal documentaries that have been taken down during this period. At the end of a screening I recently attended, there weren’t many dry eyes in the room.” She added, “Thomas is an American hero.” On the Amazon website, the film has received a 4.9 star rating (out of 5 stars) from customer reviews…Īccording to news reports, Amazon has been taking down long-running documentaries from its site with little or no warning, and apparently it is almost impossible to receive a response as to why a documentary was taken down. Kathleen Parker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post, wrote, “It is a marvel of filmmaking that two hours pass so quickly.
In contrast, the RBG documentary on liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not even in the top 100 but is still streaming on Amazon Prime.Ĭreated Equal was nationally broadcast on PBS last April and has a 99 percent audience approval rating on the popular movie rating website Rotten Tomatoes. Justice Thomas’ Created Equal DVD is still available for purchase on Amazon, and it is number 38 of all documentaries on that site. There are scores of films available to stream on Amazon Prime’s Amplify Black Voices page, including four – two docudramas and two documentaries – on Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a liberal icon and our nation’s first black Supreme Court justice. Supreme Court….īefore dropping Justice Thomas’ documentary, Amazon Prime created an entire Amplify Black Voices page on its site that “feature a curated collection of titles to honor Black History Month across four weekly themes (Black Love, Black Joy, Black History Makers, and Black Girl Magic).” Thomas is our nation’s only black justice currently serving on the U.S. (by Mark Paoletta) …Amazon Prime dropped Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, an acclaimed and popular PBS documentary on Justice Clarence Thomas, making it unavailable to stream during Black History Month.
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