The Good Fight: Delightful, Problematic, Unflinching
…Reverse for Matthew Shepard. Ouch. Diane responds by returning to her desk and trying to memorize the names, Marissa asks Lucca if she thinks she’s racist while Liz and Boseman…
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White Men and the Media: A Love Story
…of color are criticized for using divisive language or have to endure coded racist descriptions. Too often women of color are dismissed or worse forced to endure racist actions from their…
Godless in Trump's America
…when you’re counting degrees of racism, you’ve already lost. You see Godless relies on the same racist tropes that power the Westerns of the past, much of the media of today, and…
The Joy of Watching Women of Color in Power
…hoped to challenge Cohen’s labeling of Trump as a racist using the oh-so-popular “Black friend card.” https://youtu.be/c3UD4mtbUKg Seem problematic? Dare I say racist? I thought so too. But even in…
“Roma” and the Pressure to Represent all of the Latinx Experience
…invitation to say something racist. Every once in a while to a fellow Latinx person as we share experiences. The thing is, though, I’m not really Mexican. I’m the descendant…
Why Viola Davis in "Widows" is Everything We Need
…fantastic. From Get Out‘s Daniel Kaluuya who plays the mob enforcer, to Atlanta‘s Brian Tyree Henry as a crime boss and politician, to Robert Duvall as a racist old mayor,…
I Want to Live in Shondaland
…is so rare on TV where race and discrimination issues are usually either A. ignored or B. treated like a completely black-or-white issue with racist villains against justice-seeking (often white)…
I'll Have The Culture, Hold the Humanity
…for their humanity to be recognized and respected. And in the last two weeks, conveniently just before the midterm election, Donald Trump has created a racist narrative about a group…