#black disenfranchisement
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alwaysbewoke · 20 days ago
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and they're at it AGAIN!!!
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anghraine · 15 days ago
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Oh, btw, if you feel like you absolutely must blame entire demographics for the election results, I'd advise at least checking the exit poll breakdowns before jumping to a hot take.
PS. Fellow white progressives, feel free to shut up about Black Trump voters forever.
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[Image ID: a screenshot of CNN's exit poll breakdown, showing Trump winning white men 60-37 and white women 45-53, while losing Black men 21-77 and Black women 7-91. /end ID]
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soracities · 7 months ago
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People are wild lol rap does actually take a certain level of skill to both perform and understand, it takes five seconds of research to see that theres decent lyricism going on there. Lots of rappers are actually great at english, they dont all know the official terms for the things they practice but rapping is like a form of poetry really.
ofc there are subgenres that i personally do not like such as mumble rap (a conversation for another time i digress) but if you take for example kendrick's latest diss tracks to drake, its something that has to literally be studied and broken down by a bunch of people lol and once you break it down and understand the refrences you see that its not just a bunch of words and a beat. of course white people will think something they dont understand is ghetto trash what else is new lol they're the kings of ostricizing and devaluing what they dont understand. They did it to jazz they did it to metal and alternative music and they do it to rap.
At the end of the day, culture is a thing that will be understood by those who are meant to understand it. You dont have to like rap to acknowledge that its an art, but calling it trash and refusing to see it from any point of view but your own speaks for itself.
And for the record, im not a rap fan lol its a genre i hardly listen to in fact, but what i am is an artist, and i can acknowledge art when i see it.
i'll be honest, i don't think lack of understanding is solely what comes into it, if at all. the genres that get the most aggressive pushback are also ones that threaten a cultural hegdemony in their respective societies (white, male, christian etc) and that's not a coincidence. rap gets the worst of this and ultimately i don't think it has ever boiled down to not knowing what GOAT means and a lot more to do with overt and tacit hostility towards black people making outspoken art on their own terms in a deeply racist society.
but otherwise i completely agree with you! the lyrical complexity, rhyming schemes and dexterity at play in a good rap song is second to none and you could absolutely teach a literature class on it. it is as much a poetic medium as anything else while also encompassing its own deeply layered, complex and distinct sensibilities--just like, literally, every other art form on earth! to pretend otherwise is just ludicrous at this point.
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odinsblog · 6 months ago
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sukibenders · 12 days ago
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Summarizing Twitter and Tiktoks current climate: "Since you didn't stand in solidarity with me, I'm turning on you and going to the places that are actively assisting in your pain." + "While showing my true colors and expressing my fake activism, I'm also ignoring how I'm assisting in perpetuating a system that keeps me and others like me down as, for example, the places I go to that are assisting in your pain also assist in the pain of myself and others like me, but as long as I get to turn on you it's all good."
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aeriondripflame · 6 months ago
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just so you know cutting nettles actually means hotd is valyrian propaganda in this essay i will
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poseidonsbitch · 2 months ago
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hi i'm gonna smack the hornet's nest real quick and ask a question about opinions on US politics, specifically kamala harris:
i've seen a mixed bag of opinions here in regards to harris. some people say she's our only hope, others say she's a do-nothing centrist. i think she's incredibly centered and playing everything as safe as possible, which is not my favorite thing... but i also understand what she's doing; while she doesn't set my leftist heart alight, she seems to be casting as wide a net as she can. she's not my favorite, but i guess the question is what other choice do we have?
if you're very much not rooting for harris (which i get) to the point that you're not going to vote (and this is where i get lost), what are you waiting for? what's the ideal here? i really don't want to come off antagonistically here, this is not being asked in a safe, holier-than-thou liberal way. i see posts fairly criticizing harris, and i guess i just wonder that if you're not voting for her, what's the ideal action that you would like to take? what do we want? what do we think will be the most effective way to make progress?
i really would love discussion here, please let me know!
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beepbeepmfkr · 15 days ago
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The cognitive dissonance required to say a black & desi woman didn't do enough to convince them to actively participate in the election.... Only to turn around and say that anyone who is rightfully irritated at that inaction is somehow racist for being pissed about it. Mmkay.
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qqueenofhades · 2 years ago
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Also, it is truly satisfying that the Republicans went absolutely hog wild with the anti-voting laws in Georgia after Warnock and Ossoff won last time, and they STILL LOST.
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alwaysbewoke · 19 days ago
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novemberthewriter · 5 months ago
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sometimes i trick myself into thinking that misogynoir isn't as pervasive as it is, and then i see stuff like people victim blaming a black woman w/a CDL for being driven half off a bridge & nearly to her death because a person in a smaller vehicle crashed into her & she had to swerve to avoid killing people. 'the most disrespected person in america is the black woman' indeed
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reasoningdaily · 1 year ago
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"Mississippi Discriminates Black Residents, Appoints Judges Over Elected Judges"
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the US department of Justice is going to have to step in and do something about this because quite frankly Tate Reeves has lost his damn mind
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vietnyamese · 1 year ago
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seeing all these antivoting posts are making me lose my mind
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nigmos · 1 year ago
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the Mississippi governor race was so close even tho the dem didn’t win. kudos to everyone who voted blue 💙
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filosofablogger · 9 months ago
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Black History Month -- The First Black Voter
I first did this post four years ago … The year 2020 marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment and the culmination of the women’s suffrage movement.  The year 2020 also marks the sesquicentennial of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) and the right of black men to the ballot after the Civil War.  The theme speaks, therefore, to the ongoing struggle on the part of both black men and black women…
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biprotagz · 2 years ago
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ive gotta read more Black thought books bc. my brain won't stop thinking about the cultural condition (detachment, alienation) of the african american.
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