#24: Blindspotting

There's something wonderfully miraculous about the human connections that made me love nearly

everybody after they were on the screen for 5 seconds.

 Not the shithead cop though.

 I was especially surprised by Rafael Casal after initially only watching this for Daveed Diggs (Hamilton, "Black-ish") 

 Another day, another time the editor doesn't want to cooperate.

"Blindspotting" is partially about the changing of Oakland with a heavy focus on one thing you can't ignore when it comes to people of color and poorer whites being expunged from their homes - Gentrification. 

This may truly be the first movie in ages I've seen that takes place in SoCal that talks about gentrification. What was the last one I watched in SoCal? Destroyer? Yeah that had like 0 to do with gentrification. 

Unless you meant white folks stealing the ugly wig stereotype, but why would you. That's not a stereotype. Those wigs were just bad.

Also really enjoyed the showcase that California is not a haven for good behavior. Cops can be shit no matter where they are in the US because no matter what, cops are upholding white supremacy in this country. You live in SoCal for the pedigree, but you're essentially paying more money for the same racism.

And more than one biracial relationship - including one without any white people! And these are just my notes from the first 30 minutes!

Moving on, it gets a little slower, a lot more heavy. it has the feeling of a horror movie at points. There's moments of shocks, and the climax explodes.

Curiously, while the film is about gentrification, it's Miles who was fronting far before the hipster implants who is the most upset about it, and this is addressed. Even though he has a grill and the tattoos, he still has white privilege.

Every 'blue lives matter'  or 'back the blue' supporter needs to watch this movie to see THIS is why anyone with a conscious, anyone who isn't a racist, do not trust the cops. The rot goes deep institutionally, and getting rid of the bad cops will not fix an essentially racist and broken system made to protect the rich and the white - and most of us in America are not.