"Our individual liberation IS Palestinian liberation," the singer wrote. "Is Sudanese liberation. Is Congolese liberation."

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"Our individual liberation IS Palestinian liberation," the singer wrote. "Is Sudanese liberation. Is Congolese liberation."

  • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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    4 months ago

    I was in the goodwill just yesterday so makelmore was in my mind, what a coincidence. Anyway that aside looks like Mackelmore was sleepin till 10 months ago

    “While numerous external forces contribute to this crisis, advocates, organizers, journalists, and officials repeatedly highlight the UAE’s role in funding the RSF militia as a major factor" .”

    “At the end of the day I have to ask myself what is my intention as an artist?” Macklemore continued on Saturday. “The last 10 months l’ve been learning what factors/motivators feed genocide and global systemic oppression. I keep getting led back to self interest over collective interest at the root. Capitalism is the glue that holds this ideology together. And if I take the money, while knowing it doesn’t sit right with my spirit, how am I any different than the politicians I’ve been actively protesting against? How can I be outraged by their lack of integrity while compromising my own? How am I different than the countries that put dollars and power over human life?”

    “Although dismantling systemic oppression might not fully happen during my lifetime, our collective analysis is evolving,” he wrote. “That is where it starts. "

    Oh shit! This is actually way more than i expected!

    Out if all possible artists to make a protest song it's fuckin goofy ass Mackelmore? Goddamnit. Now i gotta go listen to some of his shit. At least the one in the college protests. Who knows? Maybe his music will get more radical going forward. We could all be singing revolution songs by makelmore !

    fuck me, wouldn't that be something?

    • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]
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      4 months ago

      Macklemore has always meant well. I remember when he won the Grammy for best rap album, he was apologizing because he knew he only got it because he was white. Kendrick Lamar was the very obvious choice. His music is pretty hit or miss, but he seems like an alright dude

      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 months ago

        This bit right here, his understanding of his place and what it improperly awarded him, is exactly why Macklemore is maybe one of five Amerikan whites I exempt from my lambasting of crackers and their works

          • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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            4 months ago

            Dolly Parton, Marshall Mathers, Lady Gaga, and John Darnielle.

            All names here subject to disfellowship if they act up; I've only recently started coming around to the fact that maybe I was too hard on Marshall, and that he wasn't the Elvis-assed snake I read him as for years.

    • Moss [they/them]
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      4 months ago

      his most well-known song is about thrift shopping, and in 2012 he made a song called same love about gay rights. i think he's always been a decent person but also got rich, but palestine seems to have really shaken him into action