What Is Taika Waititi’s Problem With Black People?

I admittedly never heard too much hype about Reservation Dogs, even from my Native family who aches for representation, and normally this would bother me. I excitedly planned to watch it myself until a friend in my old Two-Spirit group chat rolled in one day deeply upset at <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-natives-want-to-see-themselves-in-reservation-dogs-too_n_615b7d6fe4b0487c856285f7" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the quality of the representation.</a> He, a non-Black Native, explained to us that he’d been watching but could no longer take the rampant anti-Blackness, from the eerie lack of Afro-Natives in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creek_Freedmen" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a tribe which holds a good amount of us in real life</a> to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlSfJ6ZBbI8" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">one character’s recurring</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">minstrel act.</a> This marked the beginning of my parasocial enemyship with one of the show’s creators, Indigenous darling Taika Waititi. <a href="https://medium.com/@kihnindewa/what-is-taika-waititis-problem-with-black-people-c63fa43a6f22">Click Here</a>