Dear White People

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I've been looking forward to seeing Dear White People since I seen the trailer earlier this year. It won the U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the 2014 Sundance Movie Festival (sundance.org). The movie is a satire, mixed with thought-provoking content and parts to make you laugh. Which was a good idea by the way because I may have left the movie theaters in a very angry mood otherwise.


The main character Samantha White (played by Tessa Thompson) is the trouble maker on campus. She may come off as an angry black woman because she's ashamed of being biracial; but deep down it seemed that she felt she had to fight for her people and appear a certain way to be considered 'Black enough'. Her radio show Dear White People which may be funny to some, comes off as racist to others. It's certainly not amusing to the University's President who told Sam 'she secretly wished she were back in the lynching days so she could have something to fight about'. I guess in his world racism towards Blacks doesn't exist anymore.

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There were some funny scenes. Like when the BSU (Black Student Union) were telling off the cashier at the movie theaters because they were showing another Madea movie. And we all wanted Lionel Higgins (played by Everybody Hates Chris- Tyler James Williams) to cut that damn-to big for his face-Afro off, that the White people just loved to touched. Oh and the Black men in the movie were looking good too!

Towards the end of the movie was the main scene; when the prestige White students threw a Hip Hop party. This made me sooooo mad because black face college parties like this really happen. The students were told to dress up as Black people; they wore Black Face, Fubu, Ecko, 5X white tees, braided wigs and the women wore cheap tight clothing. They were also told to use Black slang. Everyone at the party ate watermelon and fried chicken while drinking 'purple drink'. And the scary part was they thought this party, dressing up and acting like a stereotypical Black person was perfectly ok.

After the minority students on campus heard what was going on they went to the party to stop it! I couldn't even imagine a party like that happening when I was in college. I think if this happened at Temple University, the students would've done a lot more than go to the party to pull off wigs and gold chains.

I would definitely say go see Dear White People, it'll certainly makes for good conversation! Watch the trailer below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uag2G0J6iqw