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@hex i know that I double tagged you but could you pleas let me know why I was banned from this thread
please?? It’s been on my mind bc I’m very passionate about my opinions and stances, but I don’t think that I did anything to be removed from the discussion. We had an exchange a few weeks ago with the Goldling poster so you can see where I’m at with this but I’m not trying to be disrespectful. Here’s the thread and copied question as reference
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/them-prime-original-series-4-9-21.836898/page-4#post-41536531
(@hex Not trying to start any shyt or stir ish up to be petty but could you please let me know why I was banned from the thread above? ^^I’m not understanding why I was blocked? Thank you - as a black woman why was my voice silenced in a movie about race issues that affected me??” )


Idk about this. This might be a no for me. I just finished watching the Billie Holiday movie on Hulu. Terrible- I’m getting really drained from every movie that’s made being scripted into “trauma and trial” - so disrespectful to her legacy, when she was way more multifaceted than that. Getting abused wasn’t the sum total of her life with the “violent black man” narrative to follow. They made more out of her inner conflict than they needed to -instead of an appreciation for her contributions. We get 10 mins of running time about “strange fruit”, (her dedication to black causes) and 1 hr 35 mins worth of her being sexually abused and fighting like a Domestic violence PSA. Same with Antebellum. Legacies of black people and conflicts reduced to a horror movie - I’m not letting that programming control my psyche. Not sure if y’all notice the pattern - Antebellum, American Horror Story - Coven, The Soul Collector, Lovecraft series - watching trauma shouldn’t be classified as “horror made for tv entertainment”. These were people’s lives, conflicts, and struggles; not a sound byte. It’s getting disturbing - trauma violence, dysfunction “porn” to satisfy the bloodlust of white audiences and profit for promotion. Legacies and legends disrespectfully reduced to a horror movie script for thrills and chills- Nope, it’s getting to be too much.
 

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@hex i know that I double tagged you but could you pleas let me know why I was banned from this thread
please?? It’s been on my mind bc I’m very passionate about my opinions and stances, but I don’t think that I did anything to be removed from the discussion. We had an exchange a few weeks ago with the Goldling poster so you can see where I’m at with this but I’m not trying to be disrespectful. Here’s the thread and copied question as reference
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/them-prime-original-series-4-9-21.836898/page-4#post-41536531
(@hex Not trying to start any shyt or stir ish up to be petty but could you please let me know why I was banned from the thread above? ^^I’m not understanding why I was blocked? Thank you - as a black woman why was my voice silenced in a movie about race issues that affected me??” )

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Great article

‘Black trauma porn’: Them and the danger of Jordan Peele imitators
Black trauma porn’: Them and the danger of Jordan Peele imitators
The true horror of the superficial Amazon show lies in bombarding the audience with scenes of gratuitous, racist violence without having anything interesting to say.

There is an inherent difficulty in producing thoughtful art that comments sensitively on racial violence, dishing up that viscous bigotry as entertainment. In a 2020 Art in America essay, the academic Zoé Samudzi wrote: “Where Blackness is en vogue and atrocity images are a hot commodity, it becomes difficult to produce a commentary or satire that does not read almost identically to the quotidian flows of violence.” The art is, in essence, a continuation of the violence it seeks to represent.
 
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