seriesofnonsequiturs:

thoughtremixer:

About Coddling whiteness in Black films. A thread on Twitter.

Can’t read the images? Read the actual thread: https://twitter.com/kelechnekoff/status/827531553651752960

^^^^This. Sure, he ripped off the coffee labels. After waiting a few weeks with full knowledge of what was going on. 

And that scene when he gives Katherine the chalk in the board meeting? It  was supposed to look like he had confidence in Katherine. Honestly, though, it carried almost no risk for him – if she failed, he could simply blame it on her and her blackness and her femaleness. Much riskier move would have been to give the chalk to Paul his chief engineer – if Paul had failed, his entire department would have been tarnished. Basically that scene was Kevin Costner’s character throwing Katherine into the middle of the road to see if she gets run over by a bus or not.

And the whole movie, I just kept thinking – every time these women walk into a room full of white people, they have no idea which of them are in the KKK. Probably a lot of them. They have no idea if their coworkers could set them up as targets. The courage, the bravery just to go to work in that environment every single day…it gives me the shivers.