The movie GET OUT is the metaphor of American Culture. We’ve been Red Pilled.

Tonya Pinkins
4 min readOct 11, 2020

I love the movie GET OUT. I laughed so hard through out. The British man I was dating at the time didn’t laugh at all. He thought it was terrifying.
Why such different reactions?
I’ve thought a lot about, all the ways the the movie GET OUT resonated with so many people for so very different reasons. One thought I had is that because Jordan Peele’s mother is White and his father is Black, Jordan grew up seeing two different worlds through each of his parents eyes. Jordan managed to live with one foot in both worlds and then to brilliantly merge them for our entertainment and enjoyment. I wondered if that was a gift that was unique to his genius or to bi-racial people in general.
Then I began to think about other places where White identity was cloaked in Black skin. My personal favorite, I’ve seen it fourteen times and listened to the recording hundreds of times, it’s HAMILTON the musical. HAMILTON is GET OUT; slave holding whites embodied in the talent, beauty and energy of African American and Latino bodies.
But is that happening anywhere else?
I think it’s happening everywhere. It is particularly prevalent in every organization’s attempts to promote diversity and inclusion. I’ve often found that the Black and Brown people who get hired in those positions were the very people least likely to be found in a pro-Black movement. I…

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