The Perfect Privileged SitCom Is Coming

Netflix Makes White Boy Show For Black History Month

I feel like I am the White Man From Another Planet. Like David Bowie’s the man who fell to earth, or the white version of the Brother from Another Planet. I can’t understand what is happening here on this one.

I just saw the preview for a new show on Netflix, and I had to think: Is there some white male media executive living in a Hollywood bubble? (Hey, you can’t get rid of them all overnight.)

Forget all the nouveau hip and dark arc narratives on HBO Max or elsewhere — even on Netflix! Some white guy (or white girl to be fair) decided it is enough. Let’s return to our delusions.

Seeing that it is Black History Month 2021, I invite all black men, black women, Latinos, Muslim women (but not men), sexual assault and harassment survivors to at least see the preview of white privileged delusion that is still being promoted.

The show is called Zac and Mia. I didn’t learn anything about Mia in the preview, sorry. Except of course she is the one true love white girl who comes to save the privileged white boy. You see, Zac had his whole life planned out.

A white boy in high school, upper middle class. He is handsome, I’m guessing six feet one or more. He has his life planned out he tells us. He will get into a great college, become more successful than Mark Zuckerberg. He will kiss many white girls along the way that throw themselves at him in his vision.

Then it happens. IT happens. Before he is saved by Mia — the perfect white girl who apparently is wise and quirky and not mainstream and shows him the spirit of life — IT happens. IT derails his dreams. Put yourself in his privileged shoes and guess what IT is.

If you are guessing that he realizes he should stop believing girls will drop into in his lap so he can have his way with them, you’re a bit off. Does he thinking amassing great wealth makes him even more privileged and something is wrong with his fantasy? Nope.

Does he feel bad for being born into a historically dominant class with great athletic gifts and involved in the inherently racist system of wealth that displays the socio-economic imbalance of political power being concentrated into a gentrified white society that cares little for the uninsured? Sorry.

Does realize that Asian and Latino American girls don’t appear enough in his sexual fantasies and becomes an exchange student in a Pakistani village to learn how desensitized he had been all his life internally to the suffering of other races and cultures? OK, one more guess.

Or is it that he realizes he doesn’t dream of helping poor and disenfranchised youth in crime ridden ghettos because of all the tax money that should support those schools and infrastructure in the inner city fled to the suburbs with the whites, leaving an unfair distribution of wealth that left blacks with no resources and so he decides to become a major promoter of Black History Month and unfair tax public school distribution, going on a national hunger strike until every elementary school student gets the same funding nationwide and universal pre-school is given to the poor and single mothers so they can work and keep their fair wages that normally get sucked up by day care?

OK, clearly you must realize that white fluff teenage dramas, based on novels, have the main boy realizing life is short and sweet and learning about love because of…Cancer! Yes, it is an external force. Not his fault. An unfair outside force makes him realize his dreams could be hollow. You expected an internal realization while reading The Autobiography of Malcom X to sweep over him. Come on, you’re ridiculous, white boy teenagers don’t go on crusades for racial or gender justice. They aren’t repressed. No, Zac forgot about, wait for it, true love!

He didn’t really look at women and appreciate their inner beauty. He didn’t see the ideal beauty was not a white blond girl attracted to him because of his good looks, inherited social position and great running skills. No, no, no.

I didn’t see the show and decided not to. Why ruin the lesson of a good preview? I’m not even giving Mia a chance, the pretty blond who shows him the meaning of life. I just stopped when I saw no internal realization put him on a different path. Just an external cliché force.

I mean cancer is real for white male rich teenagers, though it doesn’t occur quite as frequently at poverty and discrimination.

It is probably is much deeper and more philosophical than the other shows of the cancer dying teenager who realizes life is short and beautiful and they must treasure each moment of love with this quirky girl or boy who guides them to appreciate the wind in their hair, long walks on beaches, and — just laughter! The precious moments of life and solid health insurance.

So that’s how apparently young white men find the value of their life. By getting life threatening diseases.

The privileged upper class ones who don’t get cancer in high school and retain their physical gifts simply go on to great schools, grab a bunch of drunken college girls at frat parties, run for congressman, rant about fraudulent elections, then testify how much they like beer before the nation and that the girl they assaulted thirty years ago should have complained way back then and should not now unfairly block the Supreme Court seat they deserve. Amen.

You can bet at least Zac now appreciates Black History Month that he has cancer.