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Disgusting! Some White People Are Complaining That Luke Cage Is 'So Black' [View all]
Here we go again.
Over the weekend, folks all over the country have focused their attention on Netflix's newest original series, Luke Cage, so much so that the streaming capacity was too much to hold up at one point, crashing the site. The main topic that has everyone talking, though, is how unapologetically Black the series is, and, of course, this has some white folks upset and shouting "reverse racism."
Taking to Twitter, some white people who checked the new series out expressed how underrepresented they felt in the Harlem-set show:
http://www.bet.com/celebrities/news/2016/10/03/luke-cage-so-black.html?cid=facebook
Over the weekend, folks all over the country have focused their attention on Netflix's newest original series, Luke Cage, so much so that the streaming capacity was too much to hold up at one point, crashing the site. The main topic that has everyone talking, though, is how unapologetically Black the series is, and, of course, this has some white folks upset and shouting "reverse racism."
Taking to Twitter, some white people who checked the new series out expressed how underrepresented they felt in the Harlem-set show:
First episode of Luke Cage, where are all the white People? This show is very racist!
— luluca (@luise_assad) October 1, 2016
— luluca (@luise_assad) October 1, 2016
http://www.bet.com/celebrities/news/2016/10/03/luke-cage-so-black.html?cid=facebook
The problem with these people is the fact that their whiteness isn't being focused and centered. It's pretty much the problem with living in a white supremacist society.
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