{"id":4222,"date":"2020-11-18T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2020-11-18T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:46:17","slug":"blog-post-11-18-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/18\/blog-post-11-18-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 11\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sorry to Bother You was horrifying to watch. Cassius\u2019 \u201cwhite voice\u201d seems almost funny at the beginning of the movie. He puts on a little act to succeed, that\u2019s something almost everyone can relate to in some way or another. But this is obviously wrong. The audience realizes it, Detroit realizes it, the other workers realize it and even the protestors realize it. Cassius, himself, doesn\u2019t realize it, however, until the party. The party was just plain disturbing. From the rapping to the \u2018bathroom\u2019 scene, I was incredibly uncomfortable. It only gets worse from there. The riot was terrifying, and the end was the cherry on top.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What was most terrifying about the film, however, was how it parallels reality. Yes, it takes place in an almost alternate universe, but it reflects the social situation we live in today. It is sad that Black people have to disguise their own culture and characteristics just to make it in a predominantly white world. That shouldn\u2019t have to happen. The strongest people are not the ones mutated into horses, they\u2019re the ones that stay true to themselves and their culture, despite the pressures of society. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to Bother You was horrifying to watch. Cassius\u2019 \u201cwhite voice\u201d seems almost funny at the beginning of the movie. He puts on a little&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/18\/blog-post-11-18-3\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog Post 11\/18<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}