This Is America - Blog Posts

Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Video)

TW: politics/non agere content

actually fucking scared for my rights in america, I hate it here, Its basically illegal to be queer, I'm never going to be happy... i'll never get to change my name to ivan or get top surgery or change my sex on my ID or get o HRT, I wont get to know pure transgender joy...

Yeah while looking into the situation, found out that the whole thing is kinda a mess…..

Trump is probably going to remove the TikTok ban shortly after his inauguration and secure a chunk of the youth vote.

Honestly, I think mordetwi and the criticisms of it perfectly represent the hate people who don't conform to societal normities face. Twilight clearly represents nerds who dare to be pretty, rather than either or. Mordecai is your average aviary male who formed healthy bonds with his friends and girlfriend when society says that it's "gay" to care for male companions. Not only are they separated by distance and different TV shows, but expectations to marry the same species, much like Legoshi and hard from beastars. It's clear tragedy is present in their lives as they beg for mere airplanes to grant wishes, indicating they've been put through so much, that they need wishes to be commonplace as planes are. Mordetwi is genius. 💙💜

George Floyd.

Killed by Minneapolis Police Department recently. Suffocated and murdered. A grocery stores called the police when they thought he was writing a bad check. This man had his knee on george’s neck for 10 minutes. Cutting off his airway. Took his life and treated him as nothing while putting his on a stretcher. They watched him DIE.

THIS IS AMERICA.

Orange man when he has to respect people pronouns

After a School Shooting

After a School Shooting

The dead and injured

Are counted

Parents cry out of

Joy and Misery

Because some of them know

That their children are never

Coming home

3-6 hours later

They identify the shooter

You can count that it was a

White, Christian Male

With Republican beliefs

But when it's not,

They demonized others who Identify, Believe, or Look similar

6 hours later

Representatives make a statement

Democrats talk about gun laws

Republicans only say

Thoughts and Prayers

And that

Guns are not the problem

But rather an

Unstable, Non-Nuclear Family

Unless, of course

The shooter is trans

Then the issue is hormones

Or if it was a woman,

Then she was just crazy

Or if they were Black or Brown,

Because then they're dangerous

And all of them should be Deported or Imprisoned

18 hours after a School Shooting

Another one happens

There have been over

300 School Shootings since Columbine

More than 300000 Children

Have experienced gun violence

You're more likely to die in a

4th grade math class than in the Military

It's hard to learn how to read

When you're afraid

you'll bleed out

Before you graduate

Kindergarten

The worst thing a child should be Afraid about in school

Is a test they didn't study for

Or the mean girls

Who makes fun of their clothes

Not dying during third period

The cycle repeats

As the Government does nothing

While the NRA funnel money

Into politicians pockets

What I think "This Is America" means for us white people

To add onto the other "This Is America" interpretations, I think that part of the point of the dancing with all the surrounding chaos was to show the spread of parts of African-American culture (such as rap and different dances) into white appreciation and focus without the acknowledgement of the pain that the community that makes it is suffering. We white people can take in those elements that we like without having to worry about also experiencing the 'less appealing' parts of the culture like police brutality, gun violence, homelessness, poverty and other things that come as the product of systemic racism (which in America was made by our race). Maybe we would recognize it better if *some artist* paired depictions of the art we all love with depictions of black bodies being brutalized and desecrated at every turn. I think that's why he says at the end "America / I just checked my following list and / You motherfuckers owe me" -- because it's not fair that American culture can be taking in the richness and beauty of one of its subsets without owning up to the hardships it gave that subset to have birthed this art in the first place.

If we are going to appreciate African-American art, we have to support the African Americans who make it.