‘November Criminals’ Might Be One of the Worst Trailers of the Year

Let’s be real about something, there’s nothing enjoyable about the political climate right now for Black People. We’re either targeted by narrow lawmakers to support their white preservationist base, we’re indirectly affected from negligence because we aren’t considered in many…

Let’s be real about something, there’s nothing enjoyable about the political climate right now for Black People. We’re either targeted by narrow lawmakers to support their white preservationist base, we’re indirectly affected from negligence because we aren’t considered in many political conversations or, on the other side, we’re propped up in opportunistic fashion as a counterpoint to the first two, without actually having our voice considered in that opposition. As a result, we get a lot of different factions, one of them being, the crusading white liberal who will write all wrongs and be the resilient warrior necessary for civil justice. It’s nauseating, exploitive, and absolutely the premise of November Criminals, which just debuted its first trailer. In the trailer, Addison (from the much BNP internally debated Baby Driver) our hero, has a budding bromance with his Black friend Kevin. Kevin work hard. Kevin real smart. Kevin retrieve book quickly, gives his white friend proper dap and calls him brother. So Addison, so knighted by Kevin, is a down-ass white dude.

Well, Kevin gets merked at his job, under circumstances that everyone believes Kevin, who you might remember as, the black guy, made him a gang member. Yeah… This leads Addison to combat this narrative that his beautiful Black friend Kevin wasn’t in a gang or part of any salacious activity that seemingly (by the movie’s tone) warranted his death. Even if it takes him, driving into bad neighborhoods (read: where…

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