opens with African music being played by an African musician who is executed gangland style by Jim Crow. Jim Crow is a stereotype of African culture that taints African representation in media. The historic persona of Jim Crow was an invention of a burnt cork, black-face wearing white actor. His name was Thomas Dartmouth Rice and in 1828 made mockery of black people, music, dance and speech to feed his career as a Minstrel stage performer.
Donald Glover is acting out the role of a white blackface character symbolic of the music industry in this music video and it’s destructive effect on black culture. From African folk music to gospel to soul and pop (Michael Jackson dance style on top of the car after James Brown styled vocal shout out “ Hit me!”) all are targeted for obliteration by a music industry that wears our skin to commit it’s terror and genocide.
The lyrics towards the end references gangster rap saying “You just a big dawg, yeah; I kenneled him in the backyard; that probably ain’t life for a dog; for a big dog.” Rap is the music industry’s attack dog. It was used to obliterate conscious rap in the 1990s. Gangster rap is used to demean black women. This divides black men and women against each other. Gangster rap popularized the reemergence of the word nigger as a form of black mis-identity. This divides the African within, mind and soul. The stereotype enslaves rather than liberates leaving us as animals chained in the enslaver’s yard.
“This is America; Don’t catch you slipping up; look what I’m whipping up”. We Africans became comfortable with the free and open society that was hard fought for by our ancestors and elders. White supremacy is pushing back more as they have not accepted being prosocial in a free and open society, They want to depraved and oppress…that’s what they’re whipping up.
The gospel choir sings “Grandma told me, get your money, Black man”. If you can make this system work in your favor go for it. There are black folk who make it and do so without incurring negative attention from the powers that be. When you successfully work the system you can’t attract negative attention or behave like Trump. Trump will get away with perversion and rape. Cosby will not. Police, IRS, the media and other agencies are not the friends of rich black folk either. You won’t be able to buy your way into white privilege or out of the Black condition.
Africans are the great grand parent of humanity. We are called animals but that is a projection of white supremacy’s cultural genocide. All the stereotypes heaped onto blacks are the vicious hallucinations of a sick twisted white society. The Jim Crow persona is being chased by a lynch mob. The stereotype has kicked in and white society physically attacks real black people that accepted the stereotype or who have this nightmare projected upon them. In our day and age, there are many black lackeys/Judas goats of the white supremacist system. African people in politics, media, or ‘leaders’ who sell ‘us’ out are just as vulnerable to lynching as the rest of us. A big dog?? When will this world be allowed to be sane??
