Dear white folks, remember back in 2017 when Netflix announced the arrival of Dear White People a clever dramedy based on the hit movie with the same title?
Remember when white people were mad as hell at the notion of being “tortured” by the highly-anticipated offering, with the premise about a group of Black students, attending a mostly white Ivy League institution?
These young Black academics are challenged with guarding their Blackness against the backdrop of potent white privilege, “cultural bias, social injustice, misguided activism and slippery politics.”
Y’all were so pissed that you threatened to boycott Netflix for daring to showcase a highly-anticipated series that poses uncomfortable themes, highlighting exactly why such a strong response to Dear White People was predictably hateful.
It was another profound demonstration of how the fragility of whiteness continues to be threatened by the propelled authority of Blackness in ways that force white people to obstinately dwell in a cushioned bubble of indifference.
Fortunately for us, the status quo will eventually be toppled by the triumphant cries for justice, that become defiant enough to blast away the audacities of human rights violations and the supremeness of whiteness.
