Hi, I'm Aisha Harris, and you're listening to the Slate Spoiler Special, and this week we are talking about Dear White People, the highly anticipated film by first-time director, Justin Simeon.

And joined with me today is Tanner Colby, author of some of my best friends are black.

Hi, Tanner.

Hi, Aisha.

How's it going?

It's going great.

Great.

And Dear White People, as I mentioned earlier, is probably one of the most anticipated films of this year and of this season.

It premiered at Sundance earlier this year in January and wound up winning the best, I think.

Breakthrough talent.

Breakthrough talent. That's correct.

Yes.

For director, Justin Simeon.

And it's gotten a lot of buzz.

It's had a really big viral campaign.

Even before the movie was made, it started off on Twitter with a teaser trailer, and it's

just been much buzzed about for a long time.

Yeah.

It actually started as a Twitter account, apparently, Dear White People, the same title,

and kind of became this idea that Justin Simeon had and turned into this film.

So let's talk a little bit about it.

Sure. Where do you want to start?

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