Survivor 42 Episode 9 Recap: Systemic Racism Is An Ongoing Conversation
Drea Wheeler led her group of five into Tribal Council, and instantly upon seeing the first of two contestants voted out on the ninth episode of Survivor 42, her jaw dropped to the floor. She wasn't alone. Every member of that Tribal Council was shocked as Rocksroy Bailey sat next to Chanelle Howell on the jury. Rocksroy was a supposedly solid piece of a four-person majority expected to eliminate outsider Romeo Escobar in the previous Tribal Council. Omar Zaheer, ever sympathetic to the stragglers, had other plans. Sensing another opportunity to shake things up, Omar wrangled Romeo, Hai Giang and fiercely loyal Mike Turner to rock Rocksroy's world without him knowing. Now Drea, who'd been aligned with Rocksroy since Day 1 on Ika, was forced to confront an unfortunate reality.
Earlier in the episode, Jonathan Young launched a half-baked scheme to blindside Drea before she had a chance to play her menu of advantages. Drea likely sniffed out the plan before Tribal Council, saying, «I knew it was coming for me, so f**k that. Let’s play.» Whether the vote heading into Tribal was going to be Drea or Tori Meehan is unclear, but it didn't matter.
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Drea looked at the jury, saw a Black woman and a Black man, and imagined herself as the third juror. She said, «I’m playing my idol tonight so I can stay in this game. I’m not going to let that happen to me.» Maryanne Oketch, the only other non-white player in the group of five, came to the same conclusion. Maryanne said, «My biggest fear was that I would see some sort of injustice and I would sit down and do nothing.» Jeff Probst decided a vote was unnecessary and, after playing her Shot in the Dark,
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