orange is the new black – darknesstohislight

black-morticia:

I’m in shock that Orange Is the New Black killed off Poussey, a black lesbian. But I’m not too surprised by the people defending it. Even less surprised that the main people who are straight and/or white. That part doesn’t surprise me in the slightest because of course y’all would. And the excuses your making to justify her unjustifiable death are even less surprising…

Like first off, some of y’all need to stop telling others how to feel about this. We have every right to be upset. Regardless of the “context” you still had another black character killed. A black lesbian character. We see black and LGBTAQ people be killed almost all the time, we’re tired of it. Can’t even watch TV without seeing our bodies be harmed. People have been talking about all the lesbian and bisexual woman characters that have been killed, OITNB just joined the list of Bury Your Gays. The unsettling part is y’all praising this. There’s nothing to praise when an innocent character is killed off.

This whole “oh it’s bringing awareness to start conversations” thing y’all keep saying is utter bullshit. Bringing awareness to something that’s been all over the news? This discussion of police brutality has been going on for years now. We’ve been talking, you just haven’t been listening. Did y’all really need a fucking Netflix show written by white people to tell you black people are getting murdered more than anyone else? Really now? Us talking about wasn’t enough, so you needed one of your fav fictional characters to be killed off to get it? Our word wasn’t enough? You couldn’t empathize with a real human being but a fictional character is pulling your heart strings?

But even if I wanted to believe your “starting conversation” bullshit, OITNB writers did a poor fucking job. Out of all the shitty guards that could’ve killed Poussey, it was the timid guard, Bayley. Since he arrived the writers had us sympathizing with him. He’s young, intimated, and untrained. So him ACCIDENTALLY killing Poussey after showing us his flashbacks is to sympathize with him even more is worse. Having a likable character accidentally kill another likable character is bad because it makes you sympathize with both characters, not just the one who’s dead.

Let’s get one thing clear: Police Brutality is NOT an accident, it is a deliberate act of violence to establish control.

If the writers really wanted to join the conversation, then they should’ve had Piscatella, who’s constantly shown he’s an asshole, PURPOSELY kill Poussey or any other black inmate. The writers could’ve shown us that gay white men can be just has misogynistic and racist as anyone else. That any cop regardless of their sexual orientation or race or gender can be on a power trip. That’s a conversation piece. No this. The conversation that is happening is that the writers didn’t quiet understand what they were doing.

We didn’t see a death that was supposed to be about social awareness and our culture as a whole. We got the graphic death of character who’s finally happy after 3 seasons be killed off for shock value.