From the very beginning of the movie, I saw where this was going. SPOILER ALERT *** a black mother on welfare trying to raise two kids she admits she didn't want. Cheryl is selfish and does what SOME black men have done for years. She abandons her two children. "She left to get milk" as some would put it, and the abandoned kids get passed around, unwanted and grow up bitter. I get it.
"Neve" finds opportunity with her "light skin" to gain status, wealth and privilege. Like many (don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about because I KNOW) "Passé Blanc" blacks, she's living the life she's wanted, and doesn't want her biracial children to associate with Black culture although the kids are raised knowing they're black. The "one drop rule"... I get it.
Towards the end without going into too much detail because it's disturbing AF, there is no preference for dark skin black children, or light skin black/ biracial children, it's just a selfish, heartless human being who is only looking out for themselves. I get it.
The story has some plot holes here and there. I think the acting is great! Point made, and if you think this is a racist movie, you're correct. It is. It shows how a struggling black mother chose herself over the hardships of being black in poverty. Whiteness was a way out.
"Neve" finds opportunity with her "light skin" to gain status, wealth and privilege. Like many (don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about because I KNOW) "Passé Blanc" blacks, she's living the life she's wanted, and doesn't want her biracial children to associate with Black culture although the kids are raised knowing they're black. The "one drop rule"... I get it.
Towards the end without going into too much detail because it's disturbing AF, there is no preference for dark skin black children, or light skin black/ biracial children, it's just a selfish, heartless human being who is only looking out for themselves. I get it.
The story has some plot holes here and there. I think the acting is great! Point made, and if you think this is a racist movie, you're correct. It is. It shows how a struggling black mother chose herself over the hardships of being black in poverty. Whiteness was a way out.