The Word is the...

‎”White audiences are not the only ones that turn away from progressive images. Often, unenlightened black and other nonwhite groups who, like many whites, have been socially conditioned to accept the denigrating portraits of black people are dissatisfied when they do not see these familiar stereotypes on screen. White supremacy hegemony works because everyone is in on the act.

—bell hooks  (via daughterofzami)

(via queerandpresentdanger)