{"id":4230,"date":"2020-11-24T20:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T01:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2020-11-24T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T01:50:31","slug":"charley-blount-blog-post-11-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/24\/charley-blount-blog-post-11-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Charley Blount Blog Post (11\/30)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear White People<\/span><\/i> offers a bleak, and largely dramatized, image of reality in a country divided on the issue of race. While the issues revolving race, segregation, and cultural appropriation in elite college institutions are very real, this movie ignores any nuance and subtlety surrounding the issues, thus delegitimizing the problems are fueling the arguments of skeptics who believe that racism is dead. Certain parts of this movie create necessary discussion that needs to be central to any conversations involving progress in America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, when she is leaving her film studies class, Sam references the commodification of black people in culture, specifically hip-hop and film. She argues that black people are incentivized to perpetuate stereotypes that are counterproductive to the advancement of black people in order to profit from a largely white fanbase. While these adverse incentives are notable and problematic, scenes like this one are overshadowed by examples of overt racism that are not nearly as prevalent as this movie would make them seem. In this sense, the perverse incentives that this movie criticizes are exactly what the producers are feeding in to. <\/span>Dear White People<\/span><\/i> exaggerates culturally controversial issues in order to drive box office ratings. Their attempts to condemn racism and racial inequities are overshadowed by an overt attempt to grow their profits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear White People offers a bleak, and largely dramatized, image of reality in a country divided on the issue of race. While the issues revolving…<\/p>\n

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