‘Get Out’ Gets In Our Heads About African Americans And Mental Health [HuffingtonPost.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/17/174:00 AM

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN ‘GET OUT’

“When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stay in it.”

—Carter G. Woodson The Mis-Education of the Negro

Get out for your safety. Get out of this neighborhood. Get out of Black minds. There’s so much symbolism to unpack in Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. The psychological thriller is about how a black man’s visit to the estate of his white girlfriend’s parents turns into a trip from hell. Mental health and African-American trauma is one of the film’s major themes.

[For more of this story, written by Jenee Darden, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...489de4b022817b291685]

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