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yes white savior with blue eyes, we need your leadership

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  Well, I'm glad that you asked me about the White Savior...I’ll be the first to say that genre maybe...HEAVY on the maybe ha good intentions at first when the trope first hit the scene…but now it's just a stale repeat in a lot of Civil Rights film or any film that involve a group of POC-looking/needing a change in their lives. Let us begin; what is a white savior you may ask? I am so glad that you asked. The term white savior is a sarcastic or critical description of a white person who is depicted as liberating, rescuing, or uplifting non-white people; it is critical in the sense that it describes a pattern in which third world peoples are denied agency and are seen as passive recipients of white benevolence. You know those trips that conveniently mainly white churches take and they go to third world countries and then snap a photo with all the little kids in the village to post on Instagram. Yeah like that or when the Spanish came to America and made all the Indians suffer th...
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Andre hates his son because he's not man enough?

 A show that I'd like to discuss is Blackish. It does a great job of showing the dynamic of a black family in America and the loops and tricks that they have to go through, as a black upper-middle-class family in all-white areas whether that being in their neighborhood, work, school, or just their lives in general. I'd like to focus on the men in this family. In the family, there are five men we follow. It's Andre, Junior     ( Andre Jr.), Jack, Pops, and baby Devante.  I'd like to talk about the dynamic between Andre (the FATHER) and his eldest son Junior. There are many moments where his son challenges toxic black masculinity with their father. The dynamic between Andre and his eldest son Junior would have you questioning how could he possibly love him if one of his main tasks is antagonizing Junior in any way possible about his manliness.  Andre grew up in Compton, LA in case you didn't know was the hood in Los Angeles and if you aren't from there..no it...
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WOO CHI-LAY...OOPS I MEAN CHILE

  Well, here it comes Black culture is being gentrified every day, and it's honestly disgusting and annoying.  Now let's divulge a little bit past slavery because that is a bigger can of worms in itself. Let's take it back to the last century... Let's imagine this is the 1920s, you're at a family party and your family is playing the radio and you decide to change it, ending up on a black station. The band starts playing an array of instruments but nothing like you've ever heard. The sound is an organized mess and the music makes you want to move freely and unchoreographed, unlike the music you're accustomed to. Your family looks at you in disgust and switches it off immediately.  That music was Jazz. When you think about the roaring '20s, you think of prohibition, the depression, speakeasy, and Jazz, correct? Now, what if I told you that originally known as jungle music, and if you can't read between the lines...it's an insult toward black people...
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