Music from man on fire9/9/2023 James Chase Sanchez: So I am an academic, and at the time of Moore’s self-immolation, I was in graduate school at Texas Christian University studying racial rhetorics (how people talk about race). PB: Chase, tell us a bit about the research Joel mentioned. I knew immediately that this could be a good opportunity to explore these questions in a documentary that I would use as my final thesis project. There were many questions I had about Charles, about this town, about his choice. So it attracted me on a deep personal level but also as in everything it wasn’t so black and white. So I was floored and in awe of this preacher who sacrificed his life in such a horrific manner for a social justice cause. And here was a preacher who spent his whole life on a mission for social justice and felt that he had not done enough. Whether it was going to a protest march or giving a few bucks to homeless person, it always felt like just enough to stave off the guilt. And more specifically that I wasn’t doing enough. I remember especially at that moment having larger existential questions about purpose and my responsibility to social justice in society. In fact, I had just arrived in Austin about a month after Charles self-immolated in Grand Saline. I was immediately taken back by the extreme act and that I had never heard about it. Chase and I had a mutual friend Kristen Lacefield who told me about Chase’s research and the story of Charles Moore. Joel Fendelman: At the time I was working towards my MFA degree in the Radio, Television, Film program at the University of Texas, Austin. PremiumBeat: Joel, tell me what drew your interest to this project?
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