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BY VICTORIA TINKER Dear White People, Meet Samantha, Lionel, Troy, Coco and Reggie, * the stars of this show and revolutionists of Winchester. Netflix aired a new series on April 28 titled “ Dear White People” based on the 2014 film “ Dear White People. ” The series picks up where the film left off. Each person has at least one separate episode that tells their story of how they’ve dealt with the backlash of being black at a primarily white college. It started with a group o f white college students attending a black face party, where the students painted their faces and dressed as Rastafarians, Nicki Minaj and other famous black people. Afterwards, the revolutionists decide to try to wake this campus up; racism is not dead. Samantha is a huge influence in the revolution and with a loud voice that’ s hard to ignore. She tries to wake up Winchester by starting a radio channel I I titled “ Dear White People,” where she one of the most intelligent students at Sam antha and another fellow black points out all the racist things that have Winchester. At a party, he asks one of wom an talking about how she lost been happening to her and other fellow his white friends to not sing along to the getting a scholarship to a white male. Gabe wanted to yell, “You know what, word “ Nigger. ” A small fight breaks out black students on campus. Lionel is a journalist that goes from a between the two and white male cops sometimes people get what they have nerdy loner, to popular among his black come to break it up. They ask Reggie if because they earned it. Just because I classmates by sabotaging his own story he’s even a student, everyone explains happened to be a white male doesn’t to the cop that he is a student and that automatically mean I’m some asshole.” to help Samantha. Troy, the son of the dean, is running this was just a small misunderstanding Butinstead he just kept his mouth shut. This series has a lot of difficult for college president. “ As students of between friends, including the boy he color at W inchester, we’re like this was fighting with. The cop then asks controversy. On one side you have to dum pling, a m ix of exciting flavors to see Reggie’s ID and since he doesn’t understand that the racist things that surrounded by bland w hite dough. comply right away, the cop pulled a are happening to these black students are way worse than hearing, “ that But when brought together with love, gun on him. That was the last straw; this was rent a cop’s probably eating a bologna it can be beautiful,” said Troy while campaigning to all the different ethnic a black and white issue. But to get it sandwich, twiddling his thumbs right across to everyone on campus, they now.” But on the other side o f it they groups on campus. Coco, Troy’ s girlfriend, is the girl state that it isn’t. Imagine if two white almost make it seem like it’s okay to that chooses to assimilate, which she males were fighting and the cops pulled bash on all white people because they calls self-preservation, rather than to a gun on them, no one here would feel are the majority group and some of stand out. “ People take one look at my safe, so imagine how Reggie and the them are racist and not coot With our current situation in America, skin and they assume that I’m poor or rest of his black friends felt. In episode VII, they throw in Gabe, this series just shows what happens to uneducated or ratchet, so yeah I tone Samantha’s white boyfriend, to give ethnics groups every day. Racism is it down,” said Coco. ' a counter argum ent. He witnessed not dead. Reggie is a trivia master and among i jj fjl -J ■ "Æ hh CLACKAMAS STUDENTS: Want to complete a bachelor’s degree that offers you a high number of career options and paths? Transfer your Clackamas credits to Marylhurst and complete your bachelor’s degree in BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. We offer this high- demand program in an accessible, flexible format (online or on campus at Clackamas or Marylhurst}. Curriculum is both relevant and career- focused taught by exceptional business faculty. Get started today: marylhurst.edu/ccc-bus Evening classes held at W B| CLACKAMAS \ Comm unity College, at M arylhurst’s campus or 100% Online. #O a ek a m a s ¡tint MAY 10,2017 tfieclackamasprintcom ■Jl INSPIRE CHANGE
