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WATCH THIS: ‘Dear White People’ Movie Trailer

So, I’m assuming you watched the trailer. Now, what do you think? Will this movie ever make it to theaters? Do you think it’s as cutting-edge as some people do? ‘Dear White People’ is a satire about a black face in a white place, so says the film’s creators. From the Huff Po:

Perhaps it was being mistaken for the one other Black guy in my office by a colleague who had worked with him for years… Or perhaps it was being asked repeatedly by co-workers to teach them the Single Ladies Dance? Either way something provoked me to go on Twitter as @DearWhitePeople two years ago and start tweeting things like:

“Dear White People. The single ladies dance is dead. Please turn off your web cams and go on about your lives.”

Meant to articulate the sometimes funny, mostly harmless, but occasionally painful experience of being a Black face in a vastly white place (i.e. most Hollywood work environments) @DearWhitePeople also served an ulterior motive of mine.

I’d been working for some time on a satire about race identity. The feature script for Dear White People follows the events leading up to a race riot a prestigious predominately white university through the perspectives of four very different Black students. While the script was culled from my own college experiences and those of others I knew, I wanted to test out the voice of my lead character, Sam White, whose radio show “Dear White People” gives the film its title.

You can check out more ‘Dear White People’ here. And for God’s sake, help get this movie in theaters, will you?

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  • YES it looks absolutely brilliant. The trailer has been making the rounds on Tumblr and I really hope it gets released because it looks so funny.