*Spoiler Alert* OITNB Season 4 is Trash and Here's Why

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TW// R*pe, Transphobia, Racism, Police Brutality, and Death

     I, and many other people will no longer be watching Orange Is The New Black, and here's why. I've been watching this show since it first premiered Netflix, and I was excited to watch the new season. Until I actually watched the new season. I was already pissed at the season for keeping Sophia Bursett, a trans woman in the SHU, from what happened last season. Her conflict last season resulted in heavy discrimination towards her (explain more in depth on her conflict so they can paint a picture of whats happening)  and the prison decided locking her up would be “safer” for her.

     So, beginning of season 4 new COs came in, as well as new inmates. The influx of inmates increased the Latina population tremendously. Piper, the main character, felt her panty business was threatened by Maria, and the other Latinas because they were starting their own prison business. It lead to a group she organized that quickly became a white supremacist group. The season was filled with controversial scenes and very racists actions/taunts from the COs. The white supremacist and the COs are calling the Black inmates animals, monkeys, and just all over mistreating them and the Latinas; while the whites get special treatment. A famous inmate Judy King, received her own room while everybody else stayed packed like sardines due to overcrowding. White privilege is seen heavily in this season, it's sickening.

     Moreover after a gruesome discovery made in the garden, the prison goes on lockdown and Piscatella, the head CO/ Captain, interrogates the inmates. A few COs watching the suspected inmates, decided it would be funny to instigate a fight between two mentally unstable inmates. Well, eventually the inmates begin to fight and one is beaten nearly to death.
     Now, entering the dreadful episode 12 which triggered, sadden, angered, and just messed up a lot of black and LGBTQIA+ viewers. As the inmates are peacefully protesting the way they’ve been treated, they are all together hand in hand standing on the tables; even Sophia, who is still adjusting back to regular prison as she was just moved back in from SHU. Piscatella decides to use unnecessary force to disperse the protest. So as the COs forcefully take the inmates down the once peaceful protest turns to chaos. One of the COs takes Poussey down and pins her down with his knee. She keeps saying "Get off me" "I can't breathe" and in another instance of police brutality, she dies. I never cry over TV deaths, but this this just broke me.

     LGBTQIA+ representation is already a rarity, but you almost never see black LGBTQIA+ representation at all. So, why on earth would they take that away from us? What were we supposed to understand from that? That we'll die unlawfully, and our bodies will be in the same place until the next day? That our parents won't even be notified until days later? That people will rule our death as an accident, because they thought that our murderer was a victim in the situation too? That they won't even mention our name because they're too guilty? You used one of the only well represented black LGBTQIA+ character in television, only to further a plot. I'm sorry, but I will not watch OITNB in the near future. It's evident the writers used Poussey to entice white guilt. Poussey fit the quota of a "good black".

     Also, why was it necessary to tell the CO's back story alongside Poussey's? Why in the world was it ruled an accident, and that he was a victim too? It was a poor execution of "Black Lives Matter" and police brutality. This is not realistic that the only nice and reasonable CO killed her in cold blood. No, it would've been the same ones who discriminated against the Latinas, called the Blacks animals, and cause so much pain for the inmates; and it wouldn't have been an accident. I mean we live in the same world right? I know you've at least seen one video where a cop kills a black person purposely not accidentally.

     You know the funny thing is, all the writers of OITNB are white. Yeah, they are ALL white. So how can all white writers suddenly know and understand the struggles of minority communities? It's a strange message that writers felt the need to interpret Neo Nazis, police brutality, and r*pe in this season. What message was that suppose to send to viewers?? It was unbelievably sickening. Do they not realize this is a lot of people's escape from racism, r*pe, and police brutality? As I said before, and I will say it again I will never even think about watching OITNB again, and I mean it.

 By: @H0ESL0VED0M

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