Dear White People series Coming to Netflix

[Draje]

This is not a problack show.

Doesnt matter how you spin it.

Depends on your definition of pro-black. The show depicts a variety of black experiences in navigating a sea of whiteness.

I think speaking on the black experience in an honest, open, and realistic way is pretty damn pro-black especially when it feels like it was written by black people.

Lot of my brehs were cracking the fukk up because it captures the aspects of being unapologetically black in white spaces and the viewpoint of self-preseverance as well.

Have you watched the show past the first two episodes?

 

[beenz]

I'd legit change the game for Coco

joelle and kelsy are bangin too.

 

[JMurder]

So there's bedwenching and bedbucking and self hate and tragic mulattos but you guys are saying it's a good show?


Nothing will ever top Atlanta.

Choose to be simple minded brehs

 

[wire28]

Fair enough. BUT you also don't see me in the Atlanta thread saying how cats are desperate to like it and throwing rocks at anyone who does. Speaking on something I haven't seen just seems downright nutty

Pause homie. Ain't nothin nutty about be breh breh chill out with all that

 

[MartyMcFly]

Pause homie. Ain't nothin nutty about be breh breh chill out with all that

Anyway whatever works for you man.

 

[Fandroid]

Depends on your definition of pro-black. The show depicts a variety of black experiences in navigating a sea of whiteness.

I think speaking on the black experience in an honest, open, and realistic way is pretty damn pro-black especially when it feels like it was written by black people.

Lot of my brehs were cracking the fukk up because it captures the aspects of being unapologetically black in white spaces and the viewpoint of self-preseverance as well.

Have you watched the show past the first two episodes?

What is problack about making characthers that are tragic mulatto militants but fall for pink dikk?



"diverse black experiences" is a lame excuse.

Atlanta has diverse black experiences and not a drop of c00ning is in there.

 

[Fandroid]

Choose to be simple minded brehs

Be unable to construct an argument like a true bytch, brehs.

 

[Fandroid]

"Unapologetically black in white spaces"

Yeah a liberal space is so tough to trench through.

Id like to see this play out in a white workspace. Thats more brave.


Also imo these characthers want cac acceptance more than anything.

The problackness is a mask.

This is basically BLM the show.

 

[MartyMcFly]

What is problack about making characthers that are tragic mulatto militants but fall for pink dikk?



"diverse black experiences" is a lame excuse.

Atlanta has diverse black experiences and not a drop of c00ning is in there.

Well for one, and not speaking for homie but just for myself, I don't give a damn who another woman or man sleeps with. Thats' on them. Like I said earlier, I know a black woman sleeping with a white man is a crime punishable by death on here, but I don't abide by those rules so we'll never match up there.

As far as the show itself though, that aside, Sam is the one character who has a relationship with a white guy and she's hardly the main focus of the show. If anything, I'd say she's the least interesting character on the show and what makes it work is the ensemble nature of it, following different black students as they deal with life on campus. None of them are tragic, none of them are begging for white people to accept them, or asking for anyone to be less than what they are. It deals with police brutality, identity, a biased educational system, our music, our slang, and how our culture has evolved over time and what that culture is in 2017. And it doesn't go for easy answers. Sam has a very different idea of how to deal with racism and prejudice than CoCo does and both of their arguments are valid. Troy and Reggie are looking at it from the male perspective but from different factions as well, with Troy being the son of the school president and being groomed to be the next president of the united states but having to squelch who he is and what he really wants to appease his dad. Reggie is more than meets the eye showing that still waters run deep and black men can be interested in a myriad of things and aren't stereotypes.

If you don't like the show that's cool though homie, everything ain't for everybody, but its not this thing you're making it out to be. But at the same time, if you can't get past Sam having a relationship with a white guy, then it probably just isn't your cup of tea.

 

[Fandroid]

Well for one, and not speaking for homie but just for myself, I don't give a damn who another woman or man sleeps with. Thats' on them. Like I said earlier, I know a black woman sleeping with a white man is a crime punishable by death on here, but I don't abide by those rules so we'll never match up there.

As far as the show itself though, that aside, Sam is the one character who has a relationship with a white guy and she's hardly the main focus of the show. If anything, I'd say she's the least interesting character on the show and what makes it work is the ensemble nature of it, following different black students as they deal with life on campus. None of them are tragic, none of them are begging for white people to accept them, or asking for anyone to be less than what they are. It deals with police brutality, identity, a biased educational system, our music, our slang, and how our culture has evolved over time and what that culture is in 2017. And it doesn't go for easy answers. Sam has a very different idea of how to deal with racism and prejudice than CoCo does and both of their arguments are valid. Troy and Reggie are looking at it from the male perspective but from different factions as well, with Troy being the son of the school president and being groomed to be the next president of the united states but having to squelch who he is and what he really wants to appease his dad. Reggie is more than meets the eye showing that still waters run deep and black men can be interested in a myriad of things and aren't stereotypes.

If you don't like the show that's cool though homie, everything ain't for everybody, but its not this thing you're making it out to be. But at the same time, if you can't get past Sam having a relationship with a white guy, then it probably just isn't your cup of tea.

So what is interesting about Sams idea to defeating racism?

What makes it valid?


Is it something novel?

 

[MartyMcFly]

So what is interesting about Sams idea to defeating racism?

What makes it valid?


Is it something novel?

It's not about it being novel homie. They're college kids for one so there's a good chance what they're proposing has already been done, i.e. protests, demonstrations, apps, trying to leverage any political capital they can on campus but her idea of being this firestarter and wanting to demonstrate is put in contrast with CoCo, who grew up in southside Chicago and has seen so many of her friends die from bullets either from her own people or cops, feels like the best way to change the system is to integrate with it and change it from the inside. Coco feels like protesting and demonstrating and being loud only get you but so much and if you really want to change you gotta get true power. Sam doesn't see it that way. Eventually they talk it out and deal with it though but it's very much an illustration of the different ways we may all feel about how to deal with issues in our community. And sometimes having those different point of views cause us to turn on one another rather than realizing the validity to both arguments and finding ways to make both lanes work. It doesn't have to be all or nothing

 

[Ziggiy]

Depends on your definition of pro-black. The show depicts a variety of black experiences in navigating a sea of whiteness.

I think speaking on the black experience in an honest, open, and realistic way is pretty damn pro-black especially when it feels like it was written by black people.

Lot of my brehs were cracking the fukk up because it captures the aspects of being unapologetically black in white spaces and the viewpoint of self-preseverance as well.

Have you watched the show past the first two episodes?

If you see the character of Reggie and his arc and then say that this show isn't pro black you don't know what "pro-black" is

 

[Fandroid]

feels like the best way to change the system is to integrate with it and change it from the inside.

And you find this valid, breh? From the girl striaght bedwenching?


Do you realize how this reflets the creator of this series when he consturcts these characthers and constructs their motives in such a manner?

You keep using "real experiences and conversations among our people" as an excuse for just shoehorning.


"But it's relatable"

Ain't no one in here been to an Ivy League school.

 

[MartyMcFly]

And you find this valid, breh? From the girl striaght bedwenching?


Do you realize how this reflets the creator of this series when he consturcts these characthers and constructs their motives in such a manner?

You keep using "real experiences and conversations among our people" as an excuse for just shoehorning.


"But it's relatable"

Ain't no one in here been to an Ivy League school.

Hm..so i guess i didn't go to an ivy league school then? Thats news to me. Damn gotta change those transcripts and take those degrees off the shelf.

So nah those are real conversations my friends and I have had. Just because you can't relate doesn't make the show less homie. I've had those conversations with my homies in high school, college, and to this day.

And again, I don't give a damn who she sleeps with so that doesn't make her opinions less valid to me. I don't subscribe to the bedwenching shyt because I don't give a damn and I think its shortsighted but that's my opinion. If you feel like that makes her suck or not as thoughtful or smart or "woke" as you'd like her to be, then bet. that works man. I told you before we don't see eye to eye on that so if you can't get with that one thing then yeah the show probably won't work for you if you're going to be hung up on that.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

man if the breh not feeling the concept don't try to convince him