I agree with everything but the boldedOn topic:
I was really disappointed that she's a fraud that spent the whole film playing up her blackness.
Wearing all black, doing the natural hair thing, making salient and powerful points on racism in modern
day America only to fukking back track and treat it like she was "Going through a phase" at the end.
It made the "Pro Black" angle out to be pointless bellyaching and it didn't help that her most of her ideas of "Racism"
were of the "We aren't represented on T.V. enough !" variety. She complained more about how (white) people looked at Black
people over the affects it could have on employment, education or even empathy when they're murdered for seemingly
no reason.
Lot's of talk about MTV, Lil Wayne and the "Token Black friend" but not a single mention of AA benefiting white women more than
minorities or the "Violent Negro" rearing it's head every time a black youth's murder becomes a national sensation.
She went from Malcolm X to a Hipster by the end of the film.
I couldn't applaud such a character.
The whole thing at the end about moving off campus and getting away from the "Black Dorm" was like the final straw
I get it, maybe the director/writers were focusing on identity and what it means to be "Black" but I think they could've avoided the "You're a black
racist if you care about Black issues" angle or at least make Sam's "Pro Blackness" somewhat reasonable instead of having her border
on caricature. And I'm being generous when I say "Border" because she was damn near an SNL skit.
Another thing I didn't like was the whole "Biracial people can't possibly relate to the average Black American's experience" angle
despite Sam's character going through the whole film being identified as and treated like a Black young woman, she even justifies her heel
turn because she feels that being identified as "Black" caused her daddy issues.
Oh and Sam launches into this little diatribe about "Racism" and how "Blacks can't be racist" that'd make a man facepalm his forehead into his
frontal lobe.
She was spot on about racism and thats a mistake people commonly make, namely white people, who have helped take the word into boy who cried wolf territory
and disappointing
