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(DIR) Post #AqyMHb3BvKqwkFSIam by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-10T10:24:20Z
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I really love Black american culture. But, also more and more I keep wondering why is it OUR job to explain who America is to itself? The work of Black artists does this consistently with precision and clarity. A mirror, a commentary on wherever the country happens to be. Distance and separation give perspective. I guess it's not that complex. But, also being America's conscious and therapist is thankless. This country eats our children. I do not have the patience to have a heart to heart.
(DIR) Post #AqyMON1GUOrvFtmgts by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-10T10:25:33Z
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There is one function this kind of art serves that I respect. It makes Black people and those close to us feel a bit better and less alone. You feel less crazy when someone correctly describes what is happening. That matters. I won't discount that.
(DIR) Post #AqyN1UBjll8cmcKnOi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-10T10:32:38Z
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Black people have made blues, gospel music, jazz, hip-hop all of these forms of art that could help this country sit down and get right in its soul, to reflect on suffering, and its causes and grow and none of it is working. That's all I'm saying.
(DIR) Post #AqyNJa4QddxsErXnmK by mensrea@freeradical.zone
2025-02-10T10:35:51Z
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@futurebird we had a whole Truth and Reconciliation Commission that that tried an even more direct approach. also didn't work
(DIR) Post #AqyOa4ksQBD9zcpPVo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-10T10:50:03Z
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Football half-time shows are not where you'd expect to find subtile insightful artistic statements. But, generally speaking for these mass events Black artists like Kendrick and Beyonce deliver work that exceeds the venue. It's entertainment, it "slaps" -- but it also speaks. And I guess that's a good thing, but I also don't think these celebrations deserve such high quality work. Work with depth. Pearls for swine. OK there I said. it.
(DIR) Post #AqyOtyxdfodnoYI1j6 by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2025-02-10T10:53:38Z
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@futurebird IDK. Reaches a very big audience -- and often an audience that needs to hear it.Which often triggers weird backlash.So many people are living in cultural bubbles now -- there's less of the "public square" than there once was, for better and worse.
(DIR) Post #AqyOumvDv4PylXXnu4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-10T10:53:28Z
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But maybe it can't "slap" if it isn't real? That seems very possible and the kind of thing highly accomplished artists would understand on an intuitive level. They know they need to deliver something good and memorable ... so it has to be true.Maybe that's why this keeps happening. But there is a dissonance to it, isn't there?
(DIR) Post #AqyP893gvZAtBZsG3c by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2025-02-10T10:56:13Z
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@futurebird You're really making me think I need to see this show (I really don't watch football). 😅
(DIR) Post #AqyP9D3HZ83zrQBraC by lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net
2025-02-10T10:56:18Z
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@futurebird I'm not fan of commercial pop culture, but aren't these events massively watched ?So even if most people don't care, a small percentage of them caring still means a lot of people appreciating...
(DIR) Post #AqyPbbOOf4iLSZbZqK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-10T11:01:34Z
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@TerryHancock This one and the one Beyonce did were really remarkable. I was still taken in and impressed with the imagery and sheer talent. This all reminds me of that artist who painted Charles II drenched in blood and I kind of love it. But, if you want "good art" it needs to be true so there is this little space where power allows the truth to be exposed. I don't know if I'm making any sense.
(DIR) Post #AqyQJ22XSkMaYd5e9g by limneticvillains@mastodon.online
2025-02-10T11:09:15Z
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@futurebird @TerryHancock just reminds me of bubblegum, honestly.
(DIR) Post #AqyVLDsstddZdrRFOS by venitamathias@masto.ai
2025-02-10T12:05:47Z
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@futurebird Kendrck speaks to Hip Hop culture and community. It's IYKYK.
(DIR) Post #AqyVeByCEoe3Csy5wW by grootinside@troet.cafe
2025-02-10T12:09:14Z
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@futurebird Would really love to see a transcript of this gig. Am not that good in (american)english (not to mention cultural/national references)Any help?
(DIR) Post #AqyZO9SaCYtEbcmvOC by unevil_cat@aipub.social
2025-02-10T12:51:05Z
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@futurebird was the show really that good? Sorry, I'm totally lacking the interest for NFL and stuff
(DIR) Post #Aqyaq8faphF0DYmajA by noirlover@mastodon.social
2025-02-10T13:07:24Z
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@futurebird you should see the documentary "Soundtrack to a coup d'etat".
(DIR) Post #Aqyj0LsXNR0riHDajY by whknott@mastodon.social
2025-02-10T14:38:53Z
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@futurebird I feel you but it's always the oppressed outsider that makes cultural commentary. It's why there's so many Jews in Hollywood.
(DIR) Post #Aqyk2zQRPi1QtmtkOG by AlgoCompSynth@mastodon.social
2025-02-10T14:50:20Z
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@futurebird This is one of the reasons I've been doing a daily Black History Month post that mostly focuses on the period of Black history that I lived through as a teen and a very young adult - the songs, the speeches, the martyrs, and the heroes.LBJ kicked the southern racists out of the Democratic Party and Nixon proceeded to welcome them to the GOP with open arms. It saddens me to see how said racists / sexists / homophobes / transphobes came to dominate the GOP.
(DIR) Post #Aqyls4E7QEykVq3P3Q by MugsysRapSheet@mastodon.social
2025-02-10T15:10:57Z
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@futurebird I love when #racist douchebags like #FiveHead have their #racism explode in their face:
(DIR) Post #AqymDOEAFsWacoF6fI by dan613@ottawa.place
2025-02-10T15:14:49Z
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@futurebird It keeps getting taken over by the white patriarchal music industry. Add country and rock to your list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe
(DIR) Post #AqytJ3hQBrkSNIZsGW by cosvak@mastodon.world
2025-02-10T16:34:19Z
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@futurebird there wouldn't be "American" if it wasn't for black artist. Country music itself is an offshoot of the blues.
(DIR) Post #AqyttZlcROKqFvxC88 by LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social
2025-02-10T16:40:54Z
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@futurebird I didn't want to watch Kendrick because of his homophobic lyrics, but now I feel like I have to.No way he's going to stand up to either of Beyonce's shows, though.
(DIR) Post #Aqyvg5xa9RF7xGFV4a by ErickaSimone@mastodon.social
2025-02-10T17:00:41Z
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@futurebird mostly because NONE of that was for THEM. It was for US.
(DIR) Post #AqywYmiFPiqkBg9dSa by GGMcBG@mstdn.plus
2025-02-10T17:10:46Z
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@futurebird Nearly any Black film from the 70s explores more about culture and history and provides more context for what people might aspire to be among the manufactured chaos of society, than any of the gritty life story and human explorations lauded by the Academy at the time. The lessons have stayed consistent but become louder and more urgent. And no one is still listening. Funkadelic said it straight, America eats its young. White America just ordered a side of 'freedom fries' instead.
(DIR) Post #Aqz19lA8XXAtuX5Nrc by AGreenCup@zirk.us
2025-02-10T18:02:16Z
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@futurebird You’re definitely right, and in the Charles case as well as Kendrick there’s the deniability that Charles is in imperial red and Kendrick was performing at drake. The truth comes out because power cannot see itself in any other way than justified and good. But there’s always a tradition in which this is known to not be the case, and so the Charles painting and Kendrick’s performance resonate in a different way to a different audience that power cannot conceive exists legitimately
(DIR) Post #Aqz3v9dHZuGvK2RhYG by Illuminatus@mstdn.social
2025-02-10T18:33:14Z
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@futurebird I watched Viggo Mortensen's opera prima the other day, 'Falling', and based on it, Black people are not USAmerica's therapist, you are the abused meme er of the family having to bear with the fash relative with dementia.
(DIR) Post #AqzLsSspLX9ZKjaGLw by DaNanner@mastodon.coffee
2025-02-10T21:54:26Z
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@futurebird because we’ve been erased and there aren’t enough people like drinkablebryan (youtube https://youtube.com/@drinkablebryan?si=COxI0u7zNvZW6jLt but I mostly see him in IG) and George (https://www.instagram.com/thewhitgeorge?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==) doing the work to educate other white people (because we already know they don’t listen to us).
(DIR) Post #Ar0l7efqU1kqG0oO92 by GFH_oheffllc@mastodon.social
2025-02-11T14:11:59Z
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@futurebird An article in The Hill about messages in the performance had an opinion poll. While I assumed it was just for tracking readers, I was curious, so I answered it via a VPN/privacy browser. Image is of the results from about half an hour ago.
(DIR) Post #Ar1yz9yyIplvGjYr2m by jericevans@mastodon.online
2025-02-12T04:20:54Z
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@MugsysRapSheet did he say "regime"...? @futurebird
(DIR) Post #Ar1yzAp5B5SJsLwTGi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-12T04:22:07Z
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@jericevans @MugsysRapSheet "welcome to my lair""who has a 'lair'??"