Piff Perkins
Veteran
It's been the wave for awhile. Even our social movements are largely aimed at white people. BLM was largely about guilting white liberals - mainly white liberal women - into giving them money. Every other year we see an "Oscars So White" campaign on twitter where black influencers and actors essentially beg for awards. Whenever black media/art depicts "black trauma" it gets praised by a certain group of white people, who seem to be so scared they can't possibly critique it honestly.
The sad thing is that we're seeing a lot of black mediocrity rewarded due to this. The black writers who have "won" the most over the last few years have largely been suburban black people pimping some of the most pedestrian bullshyt imageable. Caricatures of black trauma who have effectively created a black struggle cinematic universe. Lovecraft Country, Us, and a host of other bullshyt. You know this is the case because you almost never seen regular black people depicted on film. One of the last times I felt like regular black people were on film was Moonlight. Just a beautiful film but I think a lot of black writers/filmmakers have taken that aesthetic - mainly the way darker black people are filmed/framed/lighting/etc - and mixed it with the most basic take on Get Out (white people as the monster in a horror film) to create all this bullshyt we're getting.
The sad thing is that we're seeing a lot of black mediocrity rewarded due to this. The black writers who have "won" the most over the last few years have largely been suburban black people pimping some of the most pedestrian bullshyt imageable. Caricatures of black trauma who have effectively created a black struggle cinematic universe. Lovecraft Country, Us, and a host of other bullshyt. You know this is the case because you almost never seen regular black people depicted on film. One of the last times I felt like regular black people were on film was Moonlight. Just a beautiful film but I think a lot of black writers/filmmakers have taken that aesthetic - mainly the way darker black people are filmed/framed/lighting/etc - and mixed it with the most basic take on Get Out (white people as the monster in a horror film) to create all this bullshyt we're getting.