OpEd: Stranger Things has only one season left to attempt to do right by its two Black main characters
However, none of them are fully realized, and none of them achieve the representation Black fans seek. There's a gaggle of flippant, non-speaking Black girls who back Erica up at the Starcourt Mall in season three, only enforcing the child version of the sassy Black woman trope they've locked her in; more random Black cops and government agents in season four, including the Hawkins interim chief of police Lt.
But… why silently? Why is there delusion embedded in Lucas Sinclair's story? Why must we act as though Lucas would not and has not experienced racism, if he is still going to be placed in violent, racist situations? Why must we pretend that Lucas' father, or any Black father in the 1980s, would tell his young Black son to cooperate with and respect the police by “not lying” to them? Why must we continue the ruse and play along, as though Black fans are not being deniedThis season,...
While still being held at gunpoint by Jason, Lucas delivers a speech that's intended to fulfill his character arc for the season: he doesn't want to be popular like Jason anymore, he wants to remain true to himself and his friends. Jason doesn't care. He aims and shoots at Lucas, who physically brawls with Jason for his life after knocking the gun out of the jock's hands. Outside, Erica is also brawling with a white man twice her size.
In the days following the finale's release, Jason's coded-yet-obvious racism is already being dismissed and explained away by someThey were products of their environments, products of their upbringingsStranger Things ' long history of a harmful, unsteady depiction of race has come to a head — and with the show set to end with its fifth season, the Duffer Brothers have only one season left to attempt to do right by their two Black main characters, to stop fumbling their Blackness, and in turn, do right by their Black fans.
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