The capacity to be racist
The brouhaha over the Netflix series ‘Dear White People’ died down months ago. Why, then, are we seeing a resurgence of rancor towards it? More to the point, why are so many people of non-white ethnic backgrounds suddenly raging over it? It may have something to do with the recent reemergence of a HuffPo Black Voices clip. Published in May 2017, Justin Simien, the director, joins lead actress Logan Browning for four and a half minutes of spin: why double standards around racism simply don’t exist; w hy a show titled “Dear Black People” would be offensive; why the n-word is off-limits to white but not black people; why minority-focused spaces like HuffPost Black Voices exist but HuffPost White Voices does not; and why there’s simply no such thing as reverse racism. (HuffPo) The clip was removed from YouTube but is still contained in the HuffPo article: www.huffpost.com/entry/dear-white-people-director-and-star-break-down-why-black-people-cant-be-...