After Ferguson, 'Dear White People' Arrives Right On Time

The American Prospect ^ | October 28, 2014 | Nathalie Baptiste

[2ndDivisionVet]

Then again, any time would have been right. Systemic white privilege and the language of racism is an American tradition as old as the republic.

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

Satirizing racial tensions in the so-called post-racial America, Justin Simien’s film, Dear White People, follows the lives of several students at Winchester University, a fictional, mostly-white Ivy League college. As it explores the topics of racism, white privilege, affirmative action and interracial relationships, the film almost serves as a rebuttal to everything claimed by people who deny that racism and white privilege exists.

At Winchester, students live in dorms fashioned as houses, with Armstrong Parker House being the house where black students have traditionally chosen to live. In the beginning of the film, Samantha White runs for head of house opposite her ex-boyfriend and son of the dean of students, Troy Fairbanks. Samantha wins. When Kurt Fletcher—son of the university president—picks an argument in the Armstrong Parker dining hall using thinly veiled racist comments, Samantha kicks him out, and strains begin to simmer.

Samantha hosts a radio show called Dear White People, using her platform to dole out bits of advice to fellow students....

[DoodleDawg]

I would rather sit through a two hour root canal than this two hour movie.

[2banana]

Let’s talk about college racial quotas and minority only scholarships...

[oblomov]

Why should I care about the “plight” of black students at an Ivy League school?

[vladimir998]

Bet you it bombs.

[amnestynone]

White privilege is just another name for the economic, technical and natural institutional leadership that comes from 2-3000 years of social and cultural evolution. This is where habits, values, abilities and knowledge conducive to building a modern advanced culture are gained and pressed on succeeding generations. It takes that many years to go from aboriginal ism or post-aboriginalism to what we have today when you are on your own. Those who were brought into our society by any means were given a chance to gain the same in a much shorter time.

This white privilege crap is at best an attempt to advance people by making victims out of people, and that does not work. At worst(most likely) It is an attempt to clientize and patronize the supposedly aggrieved parties. This just empowers very upper class urban cosmopolitan libs and assorted socialists and communists.

[Sooth2222]

Yes ... we have “privilege”. To quote PJ O’Rourke, “Every hippy-dippy thing that’s thought up — from heroin addiction to special vegan lunch lines in the local high school cafeteria — I get to pay for.”

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’m really starting to see why so many people are moving overseas.

[MeshugeMikey]

they got the title AWL wrong

that shoud be”Dear WIte People”

https://screen.yahoo.com/prose-cons-000000539.html

[BenLurkin]

Sometimes I almost feel sorry for the dopey white liberals.

Almost

[TexasFreeper2009]

There are 10 black racists for every old school white racist in this country!

[Baynative]

How about some Dear Black People ???

[kaehurowing]

>>But the most important moment in the film is when Samantha White, defines racism: “Black people can’t be racist, she says. “Prejudiced, yes, but not racist. Racism describes a systemic advantage based on race. Black people can’t be racists since we don’t stand to benefit from such a system.”<<

It is sad blacks perpetuate such racist beliefs and are never called out on them.

[VeniVidiVici]

The author Nathalie Baptiste:

I'll take a shot and say she or her parents are illegal Haitians.

[Celtic Conservative]

Dear black people:

1. get an education.

2. get a good job.

3. have children in an intact family , and get married before you have kids.

4. stop listening to Sharpton and Jackson, aka the Cheech and Chong of race relations.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

CC

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Bogey78O]

A fictional account of racism doesn’t count as proof of racism.

[rlmorel]

It has already been done:

"We don't have to bother with these formalities, now do we, Mr. White?"

[rlmorel]

This is far more accurate of White Racism in America:

White Like Me (SNL Skit)

[o-n-money]

Bet you it bombs.
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“Racists” won’t spend the money or waste their time.