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    Thotline Bling: black girl supremacyFelice León
    2/10/17 12:34pm

    Unpopular opinion that I’m more than willing to take my lashes for, but how many films do we really need to see about miscegenation being illegal in the past? I mean, we get it, damn. I think there are much more important stories to be told about black people.

    I don’t care what country it comes from. This film feels like more of the same propaganda that the cure for racism is relational. In that same vein, it only acknowledges systemic barriers inasmuch as they keep the couple apart.

    Marry whoever the hell you want. The more important reality is that there socioeconomic and other societal barriers that black people and other folks of color face. We cannot ignore that racism is a deeply seeded institution that must be completely uprooted before oppression can end.

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      YeshaThotline Bling: black girl supremacy
      2/10/17 1:36pm

      Well this director in particular has an obsession with interracial romance. Her upcoming film w/ Amandla Stenberg is about a Nazi who falls for a black girl in Germany.

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      i am sadThotline Bling: black girl supremacy
      2/10/17 1:39pm

      I agree, messy.

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    NotTheFernFelice León
    2/10/17 2:17pm

    I’m nervously hopeful that this is more than a “Love Conquers All!” story. Caution is certainly warranted. But no, this does not bear a striking similarity to the plot of Loving. Mildred Loving’s desire to live in Virginia did not set off an international firestorm.

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