when they see us? more like insanely deep trauma against black people that still happens today. i really need to relax with some avengers social club this show is killing me

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    i stopped in the middle of episode 2, i want to finish it but i know i just don’t have the brain capacity for this. 2 and a half more eps to go…

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    Girl I don’t even know how you started it. I can’t watch stuff like that. All my friends and Twitter timeline is talking about it and how they cried the entire 4 episodes. No thank you.

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      I love her work and it is REALLY good filmmaking (i basically want to be here lol just diff content..black woman writer/director/editor and then have a production house.)

      It’s an incredible and necessary piece of art and I could talk about it all day….in like 2 months. It is traumatizing and i dont blame you. Non black ppl should def watch tho

      If you dont think u can handle it def dont watch. I thought i did and it fucked me up so bad, finished the last episode and could barely get through work. i wasnt listening to mysef and i KNEWWWWW it woykd hurt. sorry long but lmao it was so painful

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        Yes, NON-black people should watch it. I don’t see how anyone black is watching it. I…just… CAN NOT. Years ago, when Rosewood came out I was there the first night. I have only seen it once but can remember almost everything about it. Traumatized is putting it lightly.

        I love to support my people, especially black women but I can’t watch this. I’m so glad that as a people we are getting away from making movies only about our struggles and also making movies that just happen to have an all black cast.

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          you’re right! but it’s really, from a technical standpoint, impeccable. i knew i wanted to see to get more details, i’m a filmmaker and fan of her work, and like. idk . i just HAD to. big. mistake. LOL so i feel u. i’ve never seen rosewood. the thingabt these is like…it’s all a true story…and can happen to us any time. this year my brother went through some legal troubles like I WAS JUST GOING THROUGH IT. this shows, though, the immense power in art

          i agree with you. tbh it’s all important but i know what you mean. i wrote about this a couple years ago, how like we’re not allowed to show the scope of black life. there’s a really good (interesting lol) film critic, he is one of the original people wo coined afropessimism, and he looks into like anti-blackness in film in his book “red, white, and black” and i STILL have not finished it but it’s fascinating because within the first page he inspects how undervalued black art is in our own communities within the diaspora but how much EXPECTATION is placed on blackness as opposed to us being living breathing people who dont’ JUST experience trauma. being black is so integral to us but the way people see it: if we talk abt issues, personal ones, people only like it because it’s “about race” and then if we don’t, but you see an all black cast, you expect it to be JUST about race and if it’s not then why do you need all black people?

          lol i could go into this more but obviously i agree with you. there’s no winning though at least for now but we’re getting there slowly but surely

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          uh he inspects the whole ‘black and film’ aspect, cultural relevance of films/canon made by black people wasnt what was mentioned, but it’s still important lol

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