Emmy-winning black producer and screenwriter Lena Waithe faces backlash for fueling 'hate crime fantasies' with extreme racial violence in new Amazon series 'Them'
New horror series 'Them' tells the fictional story of a black family who move from North Carolina to an all-white neighborhood in Compton, LA in the 1950s
The Emory family aim to escape the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration
They soon find themselves facing the peril of both supernatural forces and racism from their new white neighbors who scorch the n-word into their lawn
It was created by Little Marvin and Lena Waithe and released on Amazon Prime Video Friday