I Want To See a Black Fantasy Story

<![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align:auto"></h3><p style="text-align:auto"></p><p style="text-align:auto">Little Marvin and Lena Waithe present, Them, a limited anthology series aimed at exploring terrors that black people face in America. The first season will follow a black family during The Great Migration, where they move to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood from North Carolina. The family faces supernatural forces in the house as well as racist neighbors outside.</p><p style="text-align:auto">The first episode won’t debut until April 9th. Discussions on how the story feels familiar, the intense trauma, and colorism portrayed within the trailer have taken place.</p><p style="text-align:auto"></p><p style="text-align:auto"></p><video src="" controls></video><p style="text-align:auto">n</p><p style="text-align:auto">The need to show dark skin people being tortured in fictional worlds puzzles me. <em>Them</em>, where a dark skin family faces racial persecution by white neighbors while also being haunted by a Black ghost coated in white paint, is a prime example. The story itself feels unoriginal, with Shows like Lovecraft Country and the breakout horror film Us, where dark skin families are tortured exist.</p><p style="text-align:auto">A notable traumatic story Queen & Slim, a film by Waithe, where a dark skin couple is pulled over for a minor traffic violation, the situation escalates resulting in Slim shooting the officer in self-defense. They run from the law. When a video of the incident goes viral the pair become a symbol for people all across the country.When I watch a movie or read a book I love to enjoy the world that creators built. In these stories that showcase nothing but black trauma that is already experienced in real life what is there to enjoy?</p><p style="text-align:auto">The amount of movies where a dark skin family doesn’t go through trauma is slim to none. I beg for casting directors to stop placing dark skin representation in trauma porn.</p>]]>