The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Just imagine for a second your child is relaxing at home with their boyfriend or girlfriend. They're in bed, watching a movie, when your child falls asleep. Then, out of nowhere, there's a loud bang at the door. Your child and her partner are startled; don't know what's going on. Your child is unarmed, but their partner legally has a firearm, and as the seeming intruder breaks in, he/she fires. The intruders fire back and hit and kill your child in the process. In the ensuing grand jury trial, none of the three intruders are charged with killing your child. It's almost as if your child's death was ignored. Oh, and by the way, said intruders were cops. How would you respond? - Would you say your child shouldn't have put himself/herself at risk of being approached by law enforcement in the first place? - Would you say the cops did nothing wrong and shouldn't be charged? - Would you believe the officers' word over your child's attorneys and witnesse...

It seems sad that in the year 2014, most people don't appear to understand satire and we still mustn't talk about race, and perhaps this is why many in the IMDb community are so uncomfortable with the upcoming Sundance award-winning film, Dear White People . At the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Dear White People won the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough talent, and film review site RottenTomatoes.com summarizes the soon-to-be-released satire in the following manner: "...Dear White People is a sly, provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama. Writer/director Justin Simien follows a group of African-American students as they navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college in a sharp and funny feature film debut that earned him a spot on Variety's annual '10 Directors to Watch.'" To this point, the Rotten Tomatoes tomoatometer is at 100% fresh, as 15 out of 15 critics have reviewed it favorably, giving it an avera...