Jacklyn Everage

Spoiler alert. Don't read if you don't want to know what happened. I like how the show explores how oppressed indigenous Africans and African descent Diasporans can stand in their own way to true freedom and liberation. That despite the physical reality of apartheid being over, they are still in mental apartheid. Saving a white racist man who self professed to guilt for cold blooded murder of a Black man's life was more important than ensuring justice of the young black man who was shot in his back by that murderer. Even if they wanted to uphold the law that is against the death sentence, they could have at least demanded the man be convicted of murder and served his time. Murder or no murder of Harvey, he should have faced punishment for what he did. And that alternative was nearly absent from the film. Also, it showed how these mentally colonized Black folks in a population always seem to be those who always slightly outnumber those who are not. The movie also explored treachery among indigenous Africans and those in the Diaspora for their own political gain and competition between political and socioeconomic ideologies. This is an issue in the Black diaspora. A great examination of what can happen to the psychology of a people who have experienced apartheid, been mentally colonized, and how easily manipulated they could get by an " outsider" and a person of the "power" and "privileged" group to literally vote against their own interests. That white female journalist was a pure hypocrite. She talked at the Black Freedom fighters having a "white maternalism" attitude thinking she was about what was morally and ethically right, that she knew what was best for Black people instead of Black people themselves. She had a condescending "I'm white, so I'm right" attitude. When her actions really supported and maintained a corrupt system that she never challenged. Who was she to save the consciousness of Black people and tell them how to think? In her subconscious white supremacist mindset, the true evil doers were the Black Freedom Fighters blaming all of them for what a rogue did, but didn't have that same outrage and anger towards the white Harvey who murdered a young Black man in cold blood. Also, it explored the dynamic of how black men, due to their socialization in a Western mindset that adores and glorifies whiteness and equate it to feminine beauty, get caught up in "white girl magic" to the detriment of their own safety and interests of their own people. That Numoor guy using powders to get high didn't have the sense to realize how the white female journalist kept making a fool of him and used him that ultimately allowed her to help a cold blooded murderer, who was white like her, free. The white female journalist was a representation of everything wrong with the current system with its false sense of justice that harshly judges Black people while letting White people off the hook. She cared nothing for a black man's life who was lost by Harvey, only pushing her brand of justice that focused on controlling Black rebels. When she was "taken out" in the end, it was symbolic of a psychological, ideological change.