{"id":47958,"date":"2016-06-26T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47958"},"modified":"2016-06-26T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T17:52:59","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-cant-stop-being-a-badass-white-savior-in-the-free-state-of-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47958","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey Can’t Stop Being a Badass White Savior in The Free State of Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew McConaughey Can’t Stop Being a Badass White Savior in <\/strong><\/em>The Free State of Jones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Stranger<\/a>
\n2016-06-22<\/p>\n

Ijeoma Oluo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nWatch the magical negroes<\/a> heal Matthew McConaughey<\/a> from his wounds that he received while badassing<\/a> his way into exile.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Ever since the end of the first season of True Detective<\/em><\/a> I’ve really been wanting more Matthew McConaughey<\/a> in my life. That charming half-smile. That creepy, hyper-intense stare. That unmistakable yet unplaceable southern drawl. I don’t care if it’s laid-back, bongo drumming alright-alright-alright McConaughey, or if it’s riddle-speaking, indecipherable, slightly creepy, brooding McConaughey. I need more Matthew McConaughey.<\/p>\n

You know what else I need? Black pain and suffering. I need another movie focused on the brutalization of black bodies filtered through a Hollywood lens. I need the only faces on the screen that look like mine to be crying, screaming, or slack from the noose.<\/p>\n

It used to be that I’d have to separate these much-needed experiences of McConaughey and black pain. Dazed and Confused<\/em><\/a> on Monday, The Help<\/em><\/a> on Tuesday. Ghosts of Girlfriend’s Past<\/em><\/a> on Wednesday, 12 Years a Slave<\/em><\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

But what if you could have it all? What if you could have slavery, the Civil War<\/a>, Reconstruction<\/a>, black pain, black murder, black suffering \u2013 and more Matthew McConaughey than you ever thought imaginable?<\/p>\n

Dreams can come true. And they have come true in this 139 minute masterpiece of McConaughey-ness: The Free State of Jones<\/em><\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew McConaughey Can’t Stop Being a Badass White Savior in The Free State of Jones The Stranger 2016-06-22 Ijeoma Oluo Watch the magical negroes heal Matthew McConaughey from his wounds that he received while badassing his way into exile. Ever since the end of the first season of True Detective I’ve really been wanting more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,8,1459,6940,20],"tags":[20411,18372,24290],"class_list":["post-47958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mississippi","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-ijeoma-oluo","tag-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-the-stranger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47960,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47958\/revisions\/47960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}