Dear White People Red Band Trailer

<p><strong>Justin Simien&&num;8217&semi;s<&sol;strong> new film <em><strong>Dear White People<&sol;strong><&sol;em> promises to be a tough&comma; biting racial comedy and the latest red band trailer is proof positive&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s nothing too offensive in this trailer which makes me more hopeful that we haven&&num;8217&semi;t seen all the good bits yet&comma; but it does offer up plenty of uneasy and questionable laughs&period; Unlike a lot of African American comedies&comma; this one seeks to question and challenge while still aiming for intelligent laughs&period; See the synopsis below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>The unexpected election of activist Samantha White &lpar;Tessa Thompson&rpar; as head of a traditionally black residence hall sets up a college campus culture war that challenges conventional notions of what it means to be black&period; While Sam leverages her notoriety as host of the provocative and polarizing radio show &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dear White People” to try to prevent the college from diversifying Armstrong Parker House&comma; outgoing head-of-house Troy Fairbanks &lpar;Brandon P&period; Bell&rpar;&comma; son of the university’s dean &lpar;Dennis Haysbert&rpar;&comma; defies his father’s lofty expectations by applying to join the staff of Pastiche&comma; the college’s influential humor magazine&period; Lionel Higgins &lpar;Tyler James Williams&rpar;&comma; an Afro-sporting sci-fi geek&comma; is recruited by the otherwise all-white student newspaper to go undercover and write about black culture—a subject he knows little about—while the aggressively assimilated Coco Conners &lpar;Teyonah Parris&rpar; tries to use the controversy on campus to carve out a career in reality TV&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But no one at Winchester University is prepared for Pastiche’s outrageous&comma; ill-conceived annual Halloween party&comma; with its &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unleash your inner Negro” theme throwing oil on an already smoldering fire of resentment and misunderstanding&period; When the party descends into riotous mayhem&comma; everyone must choose a side&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><strong><em>Dear White People<&sol;em><&sol;strong> will be in theaters on <strong>October 17<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;