Don’t Watch 'The Help'...Or These Other White Savior Movies
There’s a distinction between movies that are about racism and movies that are truly anti-racist.belongs to a genre of white-savior stories—stories about people of color that make white people look like heroes, even when they were actually perpetrators or bystanders. It’s not that these movies are as horrible as, say,. The problem is that they obscure what actually happened in history and go ridiculously out of their way to make white people look good.
One reason so many of these well-intentioned movies misstep is that they are movies about Black people struggling for power and dignity that are made almost entirely by white people. We’re talking director, producers, writer, cinematographer, composer, in a lot of these cases—the works. Making a movie about Black people fighting disenfranchisement that almost completely disenfranchises Black people is ironic, to say the least.
These stories are told to make white people feel better about ourselves, which is silly, but it’s also harmful—when white people don’t see historical and systemic racism reflected back in our own entertainment, or we see it but we always see a white person there to save the day, we think there’s not much for us to do. It shouldn’t take videos of police killing innocent Black people for you to know that’s not true.
It’s really hard to admit a story you found so uplifting was considered a setback by the community that was the subject of the story. As someone who’s lucky to write a lot about entertainment, I sometimes feel like the lady in: “Woman Takes Short Half-Hour Break From Being Feminist to Enjoy TV Show.” But the truth is that you can discover so many truthful, heartbreaking, funny, uplifting movies and TV shows when you let go of the problematic ones.
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