The Bachelorette is Almost Wrapping Up
And so is my summer writing class, so maybe (just maybe...) Dan and I will be able to do some instant replays until the show finishes up in like 2 weeks. Here's one we did last night:
Candyman: Race, Class, Sexuality, Gender, and Disability
Candyman hits on almost all of the sections we discussed over the last six weeks. Let's start from the most obvious and move from there. Race: A large part of Candyman confronts the anger and rage of the Black community after years and years and years and years of systemic racism. Candyman is an embodiment of all of the men who have suffered at the hands of whites (white police man, the white community, white systems that have set them up to fail such as the housing projects of Cabrini-Green). The monster of Candyman is a tornado of retribution, a hive of bees swirling angrily and containing the men who have been lynched or tortured by whites, starting with the original death of a Black male painter who dared to fall in love with a white woman whose portrait he painted. This monster, like the original, can be summoned by anyone who dares to say his name out loud in front of a mirror five times. Until the very end, the only people who do this are white--and every one of them is
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