Although “Get Out” is a horror/thriller film by writer-director Jordan Peele, the movie is also a critique of “post-racial” America, underscore by moments of racism every African-American or minority would recognize as a reflection of their own experiences. “Get Out” tells the story of Chris, a young black photographer, whose girlfriend, Rose, takes him to meet her parents for the weekend, where he is surrounded by white people, save for their groundsman Walter and housekeeper Georgina. As the weekend progress, however, Chris starts to figure out why this is so.
I knew when I decided to watch the movie that it would be a public roasting of racist white America (and indeed, the movie delivered), but what I did not expect was the presence of a single Asian character
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Initially, I believed he was another token character, but when he was shown participating in the modern day slave auction, I realized Peele had put this character in with an intention. The presence of an Asian character is an exemplification of the role Asians play in sustaining white supremacy. Upon meeting Chris, the Asian man immediately asks, “Is the African-American experience an advantage or disadvantage?” This question is not mere small talk, it’s but rather the Asian man deciding whether he should participate in the auction and trade bodies with Chris, exposing himself to anti-Blackness, or stay the same and continue living his life as Asian man in a xenophobic society.
This “African-American experience” refers to the constant dehumanization black folks experience that goes all the way back to the Colonial era. The notion that black people are inherently slaves to white people was never erased, it had only taken up a different form (Marable and Mullings, 213). Hubert