{"id":4249,"date":"2020-11-28T17:24:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T22:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2020-11-28T17:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T22:24:59","slug":"jeffrey-sprung-blog-post-for-11-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/28\/jeffrey-sprung-blog-post-for-11-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Sprung Blog Post for 11\/30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The movie <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear White People<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> revolves around Samantha White, a black female student at Winchester University, who produces the radio show \u201cDear White People.\u201d Sam White\u2019s radio show \u201cDear White People\u201d gains a lot of attention on the campus of Winchester University, a distinguished, predominantly white university, as Sam discusses the racism and segregation between white and black students that takes place at Winchester University. I thought that satire within <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear White People<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> allowed the movie to effectively address systemic racial issues, discrimination, and segregation that takes place on the campus of Winchester University, which represent many issues in society as a whole in today\u2019s world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although I think <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear White People<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> did an excellent job at addressing the problematic racism and discrimination towards black students on college campuses across the country, I unfortunately do not think that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear White People<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will help eliminate these race issues that exist on college campuses and society as a whole in today\u2019s world. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear White People<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> acknowledged many of the stereotypes and racism that takes place on college campuses which will help to bring awareness to these issues, but I don\u2019t think that solely acknowledging these stereotypes and ignorances of white people will allow society to solve these issues and move forward towards racial equality. However, I think that students in college should still be aware of this movie in order to halt these racist acts and stereotypes that can occur on college campuses and beyond.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lastly, if I had to criticize one aspect of the film I would criticize the title of the movie as I feel that the title of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDear White People\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">falsely implies the fact that all white people perpetuate racism. I completely agree that many white people are racist, but I believe the title of \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear White People\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was too general.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie Dear White People revolves around Samantha White, a black female student at Winchester University, who produces the radio show \u201cDear White People.\u201d Sam&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/28\/jeffrey-sprung-blog-post-for-11-30\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeffrey Sprung Blog Post for 11\/30<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4249","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\/4249","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\/4928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}