Posts Tagged ‘satire’
Dear White People… [Video]
Thursday, July 26, 2012 by
Isabelle Ofume |
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Category: Culture, Entertainment, Short Film, Video
So, here’s a video thats been receiving a lot of rave on youtube, Dear White People. The latest satire on what it is like to be black in a white place, specifically “most Hollywood work environments”. Writer, Director, and Producer Justin Simien says: “Meant to articulate the sometimes funny, mostly harmless, but occasionally painful experience of being a Black face in a vastly white place (i.e. most Hollywood work environments) @DearWhitePeople also served an ulterior motive of mine. I’d been working for some time on a satire about race identity. The feature script for Dear White People follows the events leading up to a race riot a prestigious predominately white university through the perspectives of four very different Black students.
My film really isn’t about “white racism” or racism at all. As I see, it racism is systemic and is inherently reflected in any honest story about life as a minority in this country. It’s about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be.”
What do you think?
Dear White People… [Video]
Thursday, July 26, 2012 by Isabelle Ofume | No Comments | Category: Culture, Entertainment, Short Film, Video
So, here’s a video thats been receiving a lot of rave on youtube, Dear White People. The latest satire on what it is like to be black in a white place, specifically “most Hollywood work environments”. Writer, Director, and Producer Justin Simien says: “Meant to articulate the sometimes funny, mostly harmless, but occasionally painful experience of being a Black face in a vastly white place (i.e. most Hollywood work environments) @DearWhitePeople also served an ulterior motive of mine. I’d been working for some time on a satire about race identity. The feature script for Dear White People follows the events leading up to a race riot a prestigious predominately white university through the perspectives of four very different Black students.
My film really isn’t about “white racism” or racism at all. As I see, it racism is systemic and is inherently reflected in any honest story about life as a minority in this country. It’s about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be.”
What do you think?
