In the Netflix original series Dear White People by Justin Simien is about a campus culture war between blacks and whites at a predominantly white Ivy League university, Winchester. This war comes to light when the staff of the humor magazine, Pastiche, stages an offensive Halloween party. This Halloween party was called “Dear Black People” which had white students in blackface and ended with the black students pissed off and shutting down the party. This film focuses on racial issues and culture identities in the perspective of a black social group on campus in the 21st century. Racism doesn’t always have to be a violent act against another person; it can be the way you engage with one another on a daily basis. In the film racism is explained
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The situation that occurs here is one that we are all familiar with throughout the U.S; when a black person and a white person get into an argument and it escalates to fast and ends with a gun pointed at the black person. It all started when Addison, white male, was singing along to a song with the n-word and Reggie, black male, asked him to not say it again but he insisted on why he couldn’t say it if it was part of the song and he thought it felt weird if he censored himself. But then it escalated when Kurt comes over and says “Reggie getting in a fight about racism” sarcastically and also told Addison if he didn’t want anything destroyed in a riot then hide it; meaning that blacks are always the ones to commit an act of violence but that’s not always the case. Addison was basically called a racist for using the n-word and I understand why because of the roots of the word. I can relate this to the reading “There are Bitches and Hoes” by Tricia Rose because she discusses when some women participate, whether it is in behaviors, starring in a rapper’s video, or even signing along in the car, it is pointing to women’s cooperation with sexism and that behaving in a hyper sexual way is for some women the only mean to making any gains at all (Rose, 2015, pp. …show more content…
But, in Dear White People they show in an episode that it’s possible for two black females to have a good relationship. For instance White and Coco were previously in a friendship but then became rivals both experience colorism because people always assume that one has to be better than the other. However, their rivalry has nothing to do with winning over a man or popularity, shocking I know. They actually were experiencing insecurities created by racism. Colorism is shown here when White feels out of place because she’s biracial and most of the social groups on campus don’t believe she’s black enough, but mind you she is the head of the social group Black Student Union on campus and leads it pretty well. Then you have Coco, who is questioned on her blackness, because all her close friends are white and privileged, but this is because she went to all white private schools growing up so she had to adapt. She was taught to copy the politics of the term “whiteness”. Whiteness meaning that she fits the norm of being white. She also straightens her “hair”, weave, and speaks formally when she’s around her white friends. That’s why they became friends because they both couldn’t find a black social group on campus that didn’t question them. This topic relates to “The Future of Childhood in the Global Television Market” by Dafina Lemish because in her long article she tackles ‘the
The situation that occurs here is one that we are all familiar with throughout the U.S; when a black person and a white person get into an argument and it escalates to fast and ends with a gun pointed at the black person. It all started when Addison, white male, was singing along to a song with the n-word and Reggie, black male, asked him to not say it again but he insisted on why he couldn’t say it if it was part of the song and he thought it felt weird if he censored himself. But then it escalated when Kurt comes over and says “Reggie getting in a fight about racism” sarcastically and also told Addison if he didn’t want anything destroyed in a riot then hide it; meaning that blacks are always the ones to commit an act of violence but that’s not always the case. Addison was basically called a racist for using the n-word and I understand why because of the roots of the word. I can relate this to the reading “There are Bitches and Hoes” by Tricia Rose because she discusses when some women participate, whether it is in behaviors, starring in a rapper’s video, or even signing along in the car, it is pointing to women’s cooperation with sexism and that behaving in a hyper sexual way is for some women the only mean to making any gains at all (Rose, 2015, pp. …show more content…
But, in Dear White People they show in an episode that it’s possible for two black females to have a good relationship. For instance White and Coco were previously in a friendship but then became rivals both experience colorism because people always assume that one has to be better than the other. However, their rivalry has nothing to do with winning over a man or popularity, shocking I know. They actually were experiencing insecurities created by racism. Colorism is shown here when White feels out of place because she’s biracial and most of the social groups on campus don’t believe she’s black enough, but mind you she is the head of the social group Black Student Union on campus and leads it pretty well. Then you have Coco, who is questioned on her blackness, because all her close friends are white and privileged, but this is because she went to all white private schools growing up so she had to adapt. She was taught to copy the politics of the term “whiteness”. Whiteness meaning that she fits the norm of being white. She also straightens her “hair”, weave, and speaks formally when she’s around her white friends. That’s why they became friends because they both couldn’t find a black social group on campus that didn’t question them. This topic relates to “The Future of Childhood in the Global Television Market” by Dafina Lemish because in her long article she tackles ‘the