On complacency and pop culture

I must admit that I struggled with Denise Ferreira da Silva. To me, it was difficult, it was intense and I also must say that it left me quite speechless, not only on the account of its challenging nature but also because it made me think back on how I act trough this world.
Denise Ferreira da Silva writes so powerfully, although this almost sounds like an understatement. While reading, I was so deeply impressed and also somewhat touched by what I was reading. I kept feeling out of place for some reason as if I wanted to apologize for the whole of white people. It made me think a lot about all that made me angry in life, and yet how I rarely act to change something, about how easy it is to become complacent.
 It also made me consider to point to which popular culture - and more precisely cinema in my case - can motivate us to be more conscious and aware of what's going on around us. Though I would not say that Denise Ferreira da Silva is somewhere near being pop culture, it made me think of all the films and elements of culture that made me feel the same, from Raoul Peck's I am not your Negro to Jordan Peele's Get Out, without forgetting Ezra Edelman's O.J.: Made in America. All of these works, though wildly different, made me, like Ferreira da Silva's text, more aware, although more conscious of how one can easily become complacent.