Here we go again…
I swear, being Black is profitable to everyone that isn’t Black. I recently wrote an article on Amazon’s “THEM” and described this eerily new trend of trauma entertainment. Black trauma is seen everywhere, from social media, news, and film.
It seems that I cannot watch a new film about Black people that isn’t riddled with images and portrayals of the continuous violent and oppressive issues we as a community deal with daily. Television and movies used to be an escape from reality, but now, they use that same traumatic reality to “entertain”. But who’s being entertained? Certainly not me.
I turn on the tv while folding clothes to watch a new film on Netflix, “Two Distant Strangers”. It’s about a man trying to get back to his dog but his life is being lived in a loop. Seems innocent enough, right? I should’ve clicked, “Read more”.
Only 10 minutes in, this beautiful, happy, “nerdy” Black man is having a run in with a cop because the cop just wants to question his existence. An Asian woman on the street pulls out her phone to record the incident while screaming, “He didn’t do anything!” The Black man is asking why, what did I do? over and over. Cop slams him to the wall and instantly 3 more cops arrive.
I pause the tv right here and wonder… who TF are these films for? I don’t want to put my high vibrational energy through this “adaptation” of a reality that is likely happening to some brother at this very moment.
I’m over it. Black people have given so much of ourselves to profit Amerikkka and now, they want our trauma too.
Exhausted is an understatement. I’m tide (They will likely take that as well). Let me know your thoughts and join the conversation on my Facebook page.
