star-dust-fairy:

Trying to articulate this properly but the way the umbrella academy showed Allison running away from those white men who had clear intentions to hurt her and then she rushes into a black womens’ hair salon and she doesn’t even say anything (she literally can’t) and just has fear on her face and this group of Black women immediately, immediately, shift into protection mode. They don’t know this woman, don’t know her name, don’t know how she came to be there but all they see is utter distress caused by racist sexist white men and their first concern and action is protecting her. Like that is something in the black community that’s always been there. Protecting each other at the drop of a hat. Putting yourself between injustice. And recently with the Blm protests still at full force you again get this image of what the black community does and always has which is that they pick each other up and they do it every time and that’s how they’ve been surviving and helping each other survive and intentional or not this season did a really good job at highlighting at the right time that black people have simply been asking for their right to exist safely for centuries and yet it is the 21st century and that is still being villainously denied

Aug. 2nd
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