Hi @allisonpearson the Blackness of the characters in #IMayDestroyYou isn’t “irrelevant”

This isn’t a time to not “see colour”

Please further your learning.

Did you hear young Michaela say this bit @allisonpearson ? https://twitter.com/kelechnekoff/status/1275463947592896514?s=21 https://twitter.com/kelechnekoff/status/1275463947592896514

When white people think they’re doing bits by claiming that race isn’t a factor because “we are all the same” they fail to further their introspection and interrogate their own fears of people actually being different.

To say that people should watch a show and not be worried that most of the characters are Black is actually madness.

Funny that white audiences notice instantly when they’re not centred in a narrative and *know* that they lose interest. Imagine how we have felt for decades?

Take in that most of the characters aren’t white and sit with the discomfort.

Not everything is about you.

To claim that the Blackness of the characters is irrelevant because these things happen to everyone is actually a missed opportunity to use a word that you’ve fucked up and down.

Intersectionality.

Their blackness is irrelevant.

They’re human beings

Can’t they be Black *and* human beings??

Claiming that the Blackness of the characters is “irrelevant” is also dangerous because people who commission shows like these sometimes like to believe that “anybody” could tell the story when this is a lie.

The characters *had* to be Black for this story to resonate.