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Deontay Kyle

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Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

Here's the thing.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

This is the consensus of the film.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

They live in a relatively wealthy area.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

There's a private school there.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

Tessa Thompson being one of the few black students, if not the only black student at this school.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

Her mother getting her into this school because she is a maid for the upper class people there.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

So even when she's introduced to the other students, they walk away and they say, oh, well, how do you know her?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

And the girl says, oh yeah, she cleans our house.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

These people, these kids are very nasty to this girl's mother.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

And in turn, they become very nasty to her and another girl who's extremely overweight as a child.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

And we already know that overweight children are always going to be the subject of bullying.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

So they use Tessa Thompson's character as a young black woman.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

They use her.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

to bring this overweight girl over and basically proceed to bully her.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

And then Tessa Thompson gets the blame because she brought her over.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

She didn't know what they was finna do.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

And this is why I tell niggas all the time, do not put your children in proximity to their oppressors and definitely don't make them the extreme minority in those spaces.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

In this friend group is two white girls and of course an Asian girl.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

So then you gotta be weary of the model minorities too, who wanna be the token, who wanna be the one that's included, who wants to assimilate to whiteness.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 114 - Stop Saving Your Oppressors

And even in adulthood, she still assimilates to whiteness and has gained power in that space.