White Girl, Goat, and the little words that shape power

When people go to see movies about race or privilege, they expect to be hit over the head with a message. These are big, complicated issues, but we’ve been trained to expect villains, moral clarity, and right and wrong — laid out at a fifth-grade comprehension level. Too often, even good “message” movies are easy to shrug off because they don’t feel relevant to the way most of us live our daily lives. Most of us don’t see ourselves as evil, obviously.In the re