Dear White People series Coming to Netflix
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I was tired of it the minute it happened. Actually had a chick use it in real life. That was the last day we hung out
Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
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verbalkint
I see you niccas...
Maybe it's just me but I never found being pro-black and dating outside the race to be mutually exclusive.
Ukbrotha
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Yeah much better than the movie. On ep 6 so far and its been pretty good.
JMurder
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The facts are, this series shows multiple different perspectives on black life. While it promotes a narrative of whites by and large being oppressers (some knowingly and some unknowingly) just as the movie did, it also shines light on the complicated mindset of different black people and black backgrounds. What the movie got wrong in presentation, the series is able to delve deeper into and get right by spreading out the story.
So I get the sense you feel any interracial relationship involving a black woman and a white man is bedwenching...and that's your prerogative. I can understand why the main character sleeping with and being in a relationship with a white man screams to you as promotion of bedwenching. Unfortunately if you can't see past that there isn't anything that I can say to alleviate your fears. She fukks him, dates him, and loves him. She is also the leader of the most black-concious group in the story as a mixed race woman. It's not going to help you to hear that the white man is a symbol of the small part of her that doesn't want to be her. She alludes to him being an escape throughout the series which signifies the affect the constant pressures of being black in a mostly white area can have on even the strongest most outspoken person.
Viewing these specific topics as "bad" instead of analyzing them for the talking points they are meant to be is short-sighted and prevents you from seeing the numerous other GOOD discussions this show presents. You don't have to like the show, but you can't tell me after watching it that it doesn't tackle a significant amount of different black topics in a positive way. Even the "bedwenching" isn't promoted as good or bad...it just is the complicated thing that it is.
Because she was one character, in a show about multiple characters, and it actually does a pretty good job of explaining why she fell for the white boy. She was also into MULTIPLE black men but the relationships didn't work out.
Not only that, every other black women in the show CALLS OUT her hypocrisy and gives her shyt for it.
Just shut the fukk up if you haven't watched the damn show. It's annoying. And I think Atlanta is much better than Dear White People but you don't know what you're talking about.
What about the militant pro-black brother, who is probably the most intelligent character on the show, that is so invested in black empowerment that he forgets how to unwind? Who is adored by most of the black females on the cast and who has no problem speaking his mind?
The black men (Yes, including the gay one) and dark skinned black women (And Coco) are the most developed characters on the show. It has multiple good representations of black men who have/grow backbones, who aren't feminized, and who don't back down from being black but you act like that doesn't exist because one female character falls for a white dude (Not only that but it doesn't even paint Gabe as some white savior or act like he's better than any of the black males either).
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.
Breh, are you retarded? Like seriously?
The show ACTIVELY POINTS OUT HER HYPOCRISY AND BLASTS HER FOR IT. It doesn't champion or show her relationship in some "white savior" light, it actively says that she's a flawed and a bit hypocritical.
How does it promote bed-wrenching when athe vast majority of black women in the show love and want BLACK MEN?
You're complaining that the biracial girl likes a white dudes and black dudes.
How dare she?
Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
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i was watching this trying to figure you why ol girl playing same looked familiar..... she was the foster daughter on meet the browns tv show...... she was the sole reason why i watched it
Depends on your definition of pro-black. What constitutes as "pro-black" tends to vary among people and that's what leads to clashes. The people who consider the Black family and it's prosperity a vital aspect of pro-blackness are the ones who get up in arms when people date out.
Funny enough, the show also touches on this. But it's pushing an agenda though