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09-05-2017, 02:14 AM
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/amelia-hamilton/2017/09/04/black-racist-all-lives-matter-hbo-comedy-insecure
By Amelia Hamilton | September 4, 2017 1:06 AM EDT
In the September 3 episode of HBO's Insecure, "Hella Disrespectful," (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/60932-s02e07-hella-disrespectful/?do=getLastComment) Issa (Issa Rae) is forced to face up to some unpleasant truths, including the fact that a black coworker is racist. In the ensuing confrontation, the show makes the unexpected argument that All Lives Matters is the movement advocating for equality.
In previous episodes of Insecure, main character Issa has excused the anti-Hispanic racism of the principal of the school where they hold We Got Y'all, their after school program, by saying, "Black people can't really be racist." White character Freida (Lisa Joyce) has wanted to speak up but demurred to Issa by saying that "the oppressed can't be the oppressors."
The show finally makes it right after Issa meets a Latino student who was excluded from the program. Issa admits to Freida she was wrong, and the two of them set to work recruiting more Hispanic kids. She finally confronts Mr. Gaines (A. Russell Andrews) about his race-based mistreatment of certain kids, as well, which he literally laughs off while lumping in all Hispanic students together as "Mexicans."
By Amelia Hamilton | September 4, 2017 1:06 AM EDT
In the September 3 episode of HBO's Insecure, "Hella Disrespectful," (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/60932-s02e07-hella-disrespectful/?do=getLastComment) Issa (Issa Rae) is forced to face up to some unpleasant truths, including the fact that a black coworker is racist. In the ensuing confrontation, the show makes the unexpected argument that All Lives Matters is the movement advocating for equality.
In previous episodes of Insecure, main character Issa has excused the anti-Hispanic racism of the principal of the school where they hold We Got Y'all, their after school program, by saying, "Black people can't really be racist." White character Freida (Lisa Joyce) has wanted to speak up but demurred to Issa by saying that "the oppressed can't be the oppressors."
The show finally makes it right after Issa meets a Latino student who was excluded from the program. Issa admits to Freida she was wrong, and the two of them set to work recruiting more Hispanic kids. She finally confronts Mr. Gaines (A. Russell Andrews) about his race-based mistreatment of certain kids, as well, which he literally laughs off while lumping in all Hispanic students together as "Mexicans."