These class traitor fascists at Youtube who are "celebrating Black History" are literally doing the opposite by erasing their proletarian worker legacy and only talking about the few people who earned a living in post-industrial, post-white flight Amerikkka. These freaks talk about "creatives" because they can't acknowledge the African child slaves who make their smartphones.

Quincy Jones and Khalid's Epic Conversation

(Carlton dances amusingly and prepares a noose in his bourgeois home to Khalid's suicide hotline song)

  • Blurst_Of_Times [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Also funny to just causally admit that black people generate most US culture that eventually becomes mainstream, a word which here means "monetized by white people."

    • Nounverb [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      It's kinda nuts that black people exist in a perma state of "rap or ball, pick your poison" and everything else is a fucking struggle with ppl constantly questioning whether you deserve where you have gotten.

      And on top of that, you'll most likely never see the full value of your labor if ur black.

  • Kumikommunism [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Relatedly, I came across an article for Black History Month about Fred Hampton that compared how he was portrayed in that Aaron Sorkin movie vs that newer movie centered on Fred himself. The lib who wrote it made some dumb complaints about the already dumb Sorkin movie, basically making reference to "emotional labor" and complaining that Fred wasn't in it enough.

    Guess how many times the (long) article mentioned his politics. Not one fucking time. They even talked about why he was killed, and it was basically "he was killed because he was black and associated with people the police didn't like."

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm