As the white Irish folksinger Remmick (Jack O'Connell) attacks the young black bluesman Sammie Moore (Miles Caton) near the end of Ryan Coogler's new movie "Sinners", he shouts, "I want your stories and I want your songs!" Again, this echoes the history of African-American culture: In Jordan Peele's 2017 movie "Get Out", Jim Hudson (Stephen Root), a blind white gallerist, tells young black photographer Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) something similar to justify his brain taking over Chris's body: "I want your eye." In both cases, the white man's desire to claim the black man's creativity and culture for himself is depicted as a violent, physical attack on the black man's body. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 31 May 2025)