We talked to Black alums about the Netflix series DearWhitePeople and what it gets right—and wrong—about Black student life
The third season of Dear White People is here, and the Black student population of Winchester, the show's fictional Ivy League university, is burnt out. After a couple years spent fighting the power, many of our favorite characters are trying to move on to less troubled waters. This means that sex, secret societies, and a lot of weed are filling in for the exhaustive battle against anti-Blackness that took place in the shows first two seasons.
Devin Murphy is especially passionate about Dear White People for a couple of reasons. He was student body president at UCLA, where some of the Netflix series is filmed. He's found the show to be"triggering AF," because it"highlights critical experiences that Black people go through.
And yet, even as Byrd recognizes the white people in the Netflix series, she doesn't love the depiction of all the characters, and told me,"The Black people are such caricatures that it's hard for me to relate." In particular, she has a problem with the main character, Sam , who is biracial and in a constant state of identity crisis; Byrd said,"The 'tortured mulatto' thing is just annoying.
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