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One of my favorite complaints that *those* white readers, movie, and tv watchers have is that there is too much represnetation in media now. That they don’t see themselves in media anymore, and therefore cannot relate.
(Which is such a load bc white ppl have literally created a system where it’s just them, them, them. You can find a full white casted movie, tv show, and book much easier than you can with marginalized group rep. At least rep that is truthful to our lives and not romanticized and dramatized to spare white feelings.)
And this complaint is so funny to me as if I, a black girl in america, didn’t grow up watching and reading white stories over and over again. Stories I didn’t relate to or see myself in.
Now that’s not to say there wasn’t any representation. Of course there were the token poc characters that got three lines if they were lucky. And those token poc characters were written only to help the main white characters realize that the world isn’t as it seems. And “yes Jennifer, my skin color does in fact affect the way people perceive and treat me. Even you!”
The point isn’t about relatability. It is about the lesson. That’s what stories are. But with actually casting, hiring writers, directors, and producers who are from marginalized groups the lessons become life and it makes it real.
So I’ve just finished this Netflix series called One Day. I saw one tiktok about it and filed it away in the old noggin to watch later. Mainly bc the FMC was a WOC and all WOC deserve to be the main characters in a love story.
I will say, I am absolutely shattered. Actually sick right now. I won’t say what happens, or if it’s good or bad (bc I can be shattered in a good way). I will say you should watch it.
Each episode takes place on the same day which is July 15 starting in 1988 and ending in 2007. It’s 14 episodes long (one of the reasons why I ended up watching it bc everything is 7 episodes long now😒).
Anyway, I could say a lot, but I’ll leave it to you. I highly recommend.
