Cheers to “CSI: Cyber’s Black Lives Matter Episode Is a Racist’s Wet Dream,” by Kate Knibbs
October 21, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Cheers to “CSI: Cyber’s Black Lives Matter Episode Is a Racist’s Wet Dream,” by Kate Knibbs. The posting, at Gizmodo—a blog dedicated to digital design and technology—dissects an episode of the TV cop show CSI: Cyber—walking through how viewers are being programmed to see reality upside down when it comes to police violence against Black people.
And JEERS to the people who wrote, acted in, and produced this show.
The posting begins:
“Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes” is a “ripped from the headlines” police brutality-themed episode, name-checking Mike Brown and Freddie Gray and climaxing in a protest about violence against an unarmed black man. Guess who the victim in the episode is.
Did you guess?
The victim is white law enforcement!!!
And concludes:
In this episode of television, the Black Lives Matter movement serves as a pawn for two white brothers in a spat. The lone black guy on the squad learns he needs to chill out on judging how his white coworkers use force against unarmed black people. The premise for anger towards the cops and protests is a ruse with no value. This episode ends on a sorrowful note about how hard it is to control protests over police brutality—not the brutality itself, certainly not that. The brutality is presented as a literal FAKE THING MADE UP BY A CRAZY LIBERAL ARTS PROFESSOR TO HURT THE POLICE.
This is an episode that laments the anger of protesters and shows police brutality as a lie designed to rile black people up.
Read the whole posting here and share it!
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