An Open Letter To The White Outrage At The Movie “Get Out”: Why You Mad Doe?

Nicole Homer: Let me use that white fake ally jujitsu: #NotAllWhites. Some white people in the movie are racist, but not all whites [I wish I had a gif of my face as I type that] You mad because there’s a movie where white people are portrayed as racist or not recognizing the full humanity of blacks people?!? For real for real? Because ain’t that like all of the history of cinema? Seems like given the history of (mis)representation of black people and other PoCs, the issue isn’t that white people are racist. Because white people was racist in The Help too, right? And that was [insert words to describe white people looking at racism in a removed way that allows them to think if it as a thing their embarrassing relatives did in the 1950s] and therefore got nominated for awards. Omar Holmon: This outrage is never seen from white folk when they see a Black person or POC cast as the criminal / thug/ stereotype. There’s always silence on that until you see yourself in a light you ain’t comfortable with. Then it’s an agenda being pushed against white people only because the status quo changed and muh fuckas don’t like that.

Nicole: But because this was written by a Black man… Because this is set in contemporary times… Because the movie points out micro-aggressions that some of these people probably committed in the last week in a way that is so accurate it’s uncomfortable (even for me and I’m on the receiving end)… Hold up a mirror and dudes get shook. It’s all pearl clutches…