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‘Dear White People’ Season 4 Tries To Capture The Feeling Of A Black ’90s Musical But Never Truly Sings [Review]
When writer/director Justin Simien’s debut indie movie, “Dear White People,” first arrived at the beginning of 2014, it was a sharp, insightful and prescient breath of fresh air— woke— a good three years before the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017, several months before “stay woke” became a BLM call to action following the shooting of Michael Brown in the summer of 2014. When the movie evolved into a Netflix series three years later, it still had much to say, still delivering a funny, observational look at a Black Ivy League college with thoughtful characters who constantly challenged what was falsely advertised then as a “post-racial,” post-Obama society.
