If there's one thing I appreciate about #LovecraftCountry it's that it has probably on of the most interesting depictions of whiteness on screen currently. Especially as I find it contrasted against Girls which I'm still currently watching.
I'm catching up at the moment, but I enjoy the fact that Ruby's episode demonstrated how white folks existence is a time bomb when they're around black people. With or without or involvement they can just cause our deaths.
As well as the parts where, and we see this more and more these days, that white people so deeply want to get as close to blackness as possible. Claim it in some way if possible.
And what white folks don't get is that black people generally don't want to be white. What Ruby wanted wasn't to be white but to have a humanity unfettered by anything but herself. We all want that in life ultimately.
In this sense whiteness wasn't an aspirational goal, but a tool to climb. Though there is something to be stated about how much Ruby defeats herself by fixating on her blackness as a barrier triggered by folks perceptions of her.
This is differed by how many white women want to be men for the ultimate power of being a white man. It's not to be free necessarily but to have greater control over their ability to control. Which is characterized by Christina.
The other thing I just fucking love with Christina's character is how often her plots are complicated because she fundamentally doesn't understand black people. All she can do is understand her power and white power over them.
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