![]() “I prepared this big defense,” she recalls. Picking up from the preview week, Iris is joined in her efforts to get the administration’s attention by Sharee, who also revisits a painful memory of being called the n-word growing up, and Chris, who is unfairly targeted by campus police, assaulted and nearly arrested in a scene reminiscent of the many real-life cases of police brutality against unarmed black men that have continued to infiltrate the news cycle.Īlthough Weiss knew what she had to do to make the episode work, she was skeptical the network would be of the same opinion. ![]() Iris goes on a hunger strike to force the college dean to issue a harsher punishment to the group of racist students who left cotton balls on the grass in front of the Black Student Union. The episode saw each character confront racism in a different way as the racial tensions on their college campus come to a head. ![]() The hour, titled “Occupy Truth,” was the culmination of a conversation that first began in the season five premiere. Instead of moving on to another sensitive subject, Weiss pushed onward, albeit with a unique new framework: an episode told entirely from the perspectives of recurring African-American characters Iris (Sharon Pierre-Louis), Sharee (Bianca Bethune) and Chris (Sam Adegoke). You cannot tell a story in which our white characters are saving the day,” she says of her hesitation. “We can’t tell this story from Daphne and Bay’s point of view. ![]() However, it wasn’t nerves giving her pause.
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