Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26247132-20160223183610/@comment-26247132-20160403183732

TheDragonair wrote:

How is this POC related? If a white guy killed Lincoln sure they have every right to talk about injustice and promote the white guys get away with it while black people die. But Pike is also POC and frankly Michael and Ricky have done an amazing job with their characters. Eek! Uh, let me point you to a couple of links to catch up. Sparkstoaflame wrote a blog:Sparkstoaflame/The Blog Post blog post on both Lexa's and Lincoln's death that is worth a read-through and includes further links for reading. The one I feel best sums it up is this tumblr post:

"Meanwhile, over on the 100, not only are they having another black man holding the gun, feeding into the Black on Black trope despite the fact that Pike is supposed to be an allegory of post 9/11 bigotry against Muslims (which ???? but whatever) – the show deliberately sensationalizes Lincoln’s death. His hands are shackled, the gun goes off, everything is in slow motion, in graphic detail, and his body is filmed from above, splayed out, bleeding out in the mud from his head. 

''Did we need to see that? Why not just cut to Octavia’s horrified reaction? Why did we need to see that level of detail?''' Do they not realize how harmful that image is, of a helpless (PEACEFUL) black man on his knees being shot execution style by an authority figure? '''In the world we live in, THAT is the image they decided to go with. And multiple people signed off on that- from the director to the showrunner to the studios.''"

...

"There is a visceral reaction to seeing a black man, shot in the head, while chained, kneeling in mud, that you can only truly understand if you are black. It is a call back to the Slave days, the Civil Rights Era and even worse a call back to today. To Jordan Dunn, just listening to his music, Mike Brown with his hands up, Trayvon Martin, walking home with his tea and skittles, Freddie Gray in the back of a police van and Jamar Clarke, who was just trying to get help for his girlfriend. 

''Please stop telling minorities who are reacting to things that actually affect them in real life that the way they react is wrong. Please do not ignore our feelings and our words.''"