In most scenes, Ginny is the only Black person in the room — even in her own family, she’s the daughter of a white mom and Black father, a dad who is absent from her daily life. Her younger brother Austin is white, the son of another of Georgia’s relationships. From the start, it’s clear that we’re set up for a Very Special Netflix Series, with Ginny experiencing both purposeful and accidental biased behavior across the entire first episode and the rest of the show. Most of what happens to Ginny is recognizable to anyone who’s lived in her shoes as the only Black person in a community. It’s also rarely resolved. A rare bright spot is Georgia’s understanding of what Ginny goes through — she’s always in Ginny’s corner, ready to scold her friends and people who screw with her — but it’s odd that she’s seemingly the only person doing her best to understand the racist dynamics at play. It’s part of a larger pattern: Ginny is subject to obvious racialized treatment from clueless non-Black people, but the show never really follows through to reaffirm her or punish the people responsible in the long run. Instead, the series seems to ask the viewer to do all the processing work. On primetime broadcast TV, 75 series regulars (or 8.8%) are LGBTQ+, as are an additional 38 recurring characters. Those numbers are up from the 2017 study, which revealed just over 6% of series regulars (58 people) were LGBTQ+. And of that 8.8% of series regulars, equal numbers are men and women. and safe haven for Black people. This move to come together to create a space that welcomes Black people isn’t new. In a country like ours, in which various forms of oppression, from physical to legislative, have been inflicted onto the Black population, the value of Black-owned land has been recognized time and time again throughout history.The first Black town in the United States,Fort Mose