defined at its origin. when we look at the history of race and i think about the ways whiteness, for example, was defined. whiteness was defined as pure. meaning that at the time when folks were defining race, they were trying to imbun blackness with a certain level of evil and bar barrism is all it would take was that one drop to automatically ruin the purity and the sanctity of whiteness. if we re looking back five generations to see who is in your family, so long as there is no one who is not white in those generations, then you can be identified or categorized as white. on the other hand, if we look back and see anyone five generations ago, your great great great great grandparent is black, then you, too, are black. that is the mark, right? yeah. that is the thing that makes that person black.
but that wasn t how it was defined at its origin. when we look at the history of race and i think about the ways whiteness, for example, was defined, whiteness was defined as pure, meaning that at the time when folks were defining race, they were really trying to imbue blackness with a certain level of evil, right? a certain level of barbarism that all it would take is that one drop to automatically ruin the purity and the sanctity of whiteness. if we re looking back five generations to see who s in your family, so long as there s no one who s not white in those five generations, then you can be identified or categorized as white. on the other hand, if we look back and we see anyone five generations ago, your great-great-great-great grandparent is black, then you too are black. that is the mark, right? that is the thing that makes that person black.
redemption? i had the leave before the end. no, my husband was there. he said no, there was no redemption aspect to it. it was it s not glorifying violence but does justify it, this is a really bad person, crazy. he goes out and inflicts terrible violence. the mob, a scene where they attack police. which i think in this current environment is irresponsible. i don t think censoring works. the politically correct tire rants that are trying to manipulate the way we think will go in and start exerting their own censorship, which helps nobody. dana: there s a professor at syracuse that said all the talk about whether it causes violence takes away the real opportunity we have here to use the movie for a dialogue about questions like alienation, toxic masculinity and the fragility of whiteness. absolutely. its interesting she mentioned