In my lull away, I missed excellent hot-takes on #Brigerton. The scene that stayed with me, & forgive me if this has been discussed already, is D & S in the tea house, particularly the image of the delectable Black man consuming the loots of transatlantic slavery: sugar & tea.

To see Simon suggestively lick his spoon, a hint of the sexual pleasures to come, was cringeworthy. What the show does not take into account, in its postracial fantasy, are the undercurrents of cannibalism that such a triangulation of Black man+sugar & tea+sensual pleasure evoke.

White cannibalism, whereby white slaveholders murdered & fed enslaved Africans to other enslaved Africans, has been discussed in the works of V. Woodard, M. Barcia, & others. To see this horrific crime sublimated into a sexy television moment is jarring, insensitive, ignorant.