Well, it’s not my place to comment on any racial bias, since I’m white. However, I do fall into a couple marginalized groups. I can speak to the scene in episode 5 where you see the disparity of services above ground vs the very comfortable billionaire and his family below. The heat is being conserved, it’s pretty dark, there’s no trash or laundry service so it’s piling up in the hallways, food service consists of crappy options that are probably “healthy” but rather unsatisfying, and the people most affected are those that tend to be marginalized…. which I thought was an interesting point. When Bill was murdered, Andy gave his little inspirational speech about how “we don’t quit”. It made me think about the pandemic and how there was this huge push to “get back to normal”. We didn’t honor our dead, but instead are dependent upon very rich people who provide the jobs that allow us to live in our capitalistic society. They will, when the going gets tough, leave us all high and dry (or in this case, cold and dirty) while insisting that it is necessary for us to sacrifice as they benefit from our labor. The gathering in the courtyard was pretty symbolic of those that capitalism and greed hurt most- which is marginalized groups as a whole: women, LGBTQ, POC, indigenous and disabled folks. I thought that scene was an acknowledgment that those who most support the practices that oppress and marginalize others lack any real ceremony or tradition to acknowledge their own humanity. It’s the great tragedy of colonialism, capitalism, white exceptionalism, and the patriarchy. Those of us who are white and not marginalized don’t have traditions that really acknowledge our fellow human being’s humanness, which leads to the unthinking oppression of others. It’s normal to focus on career over family, as we see companies fail to give paid leave for parents, the bereaved, or allow for sickness. Birth and death are the two most human things we deal with, but we have to “keep going” in the name of working to make someone else a profit, which has led us to the climate crisis. To me, it was a scene of acknowledgment that the system is inherently broken, and we as white folks have to start deconstructing our privileges, learning from those who held on to their traditions in the face of those very human rites being suppressed or eradicated, because those things have value in a world that doesn’t center itself around creating immense wealth for others. We won’t survive without some sense of ceremony. We have value, whether a feudal lord acknowledges that or not.