LaVar Hosting Jeopardy July 26-30 Stan Account 👁

So, we know that white people and black people, having different experiences here in America also have different worldviews.

So, these white guys, just trying to write well, will write into their (white) understanding of the world, into their (white) experiences.

but because they just have never had the experience of being black, their POV is unlikely to fit with black experience and understanding.

And it'll be in little ways. They'll make the slaves too passive, or too violent. They'll make the slaves who talk like white people Noble.

They'll create magical negro characters who are Wise In Their Suffering. They'll overplay the slaves' Christianity, or underplay it...

They're going to write, in subtle ways, to fit a white understanding of the world. And the truth and reality of slavery...

Oh well... if they put a group of black execs in charge of it who can read the scripts and reject them if they're racist, I'd feel better!