Childish Gambino's "This is America" set to "Call Me Maybe" walks a fine line

I couldn’t even watch the whole thing. That was some White Feminist trash.

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Jarring juxtaposition was already cooked into the original music video. This sorta works with the original message, once you’ve seen the original a couple times, because it just takes the existing contrast further…

BoingBoing youkoso!

Just one? But yeah, that’s a big one. The world is far safer than when it was when I was a latchkey kid. And yet, my sister, who knows this, doesn’t let her kids hardly do anything outside.

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Goddamn, the comments section for Childish Gambino’s “This is America” set to “Call Me Maybe” walks a fine line has a winner. This comment deserves its own article in relation to Gambino as serving the role that folk singers served during Guthrie’s tenure as a human.

Article Headline: Is Donald Glover his generation’s Woody Guthrie?

Article Body: acting in Atlanta, performing as Childish Gambino, art creating awareness and defining for the middle class the battle within themselves that must be examined. Trent Reznor said he watched it 5 times. It’s being broken down for imagery identification relevance on NBC News.

Article Conclusion: This is America has become a rallying cry for disenfranchised black people (see World Star Hip Hop comments under videos of police brutality or general authoritarian mistreatment, if you dare. I am sure black twitter is a better example but write what you know.

Redbone !!!

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