yes white savior with blue eyes, we need your leadership
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...