Sajten The Conversation startade i Australien 2011 och i Storbritannien 2013 och beskriver sig som en plattform för opinion och nyheter med akademisk profil. I en essä publicerad 16 augusti 2020 varnar författaren för de populära Alien- och Predatorfilmernas ”rasistiska” tendens.

Författaren Tamari Kitossa undervisar i sociologi vid Brockuniversitet i St. Catharines, Kanada.

Filmernas svarta monster från yttre rymden påstås vara metaforer för svarta människor:

”Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise, with its vicious and endlessly breeding carbon black alien mother, came at the height of neoliberal experiment and in the U.S. especially, an all-out assault on Black people. In the context of anti-Black culture, the film signifies the Black woman as an unkillable and ceaselessly breeding alien who threatened the body politic.”

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”Predator depicted a Black, dreadlocked, large and super-virile male in a way that converged white art with white political history. A white man once said he thought it was cool that I had dreadlocks like the Predator. This is not a compliment.

The police rape, torture, castrate and murder Black men. The link between visual culture and anti-Black, racist, dog-whistle politics reveals that these violent, racist behaviours strikes deep at the heart of white psychosexual fears and pathologies. Black men are imagined as predators who must be controlled, if not eliminated with extreme prejudice.”

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