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Sent to you by moya via Google Reader:
I am not certain what to make of this.
Earlier this week, I had a long Twitter conversation with @BritniDwrites about this video clip of Kanye's new Monster video trailer.
Britni was seemingly concerned with the presence of the White women models and she questioned why such a video would be made in the first place. She wanted him to be less "Van Gough" and more "Basquiat."
I was concerned because the video is dark. Real dark.
There are White women hanging from the ceiling and Kanye hugs and maneuvers White women's seemingly comatose bodies that are laying in the bed with him in one of the scenes.
Given this countries historical treatment of sexual imagery, and the IDEA of sex between Black men and White women, I don't know if he is being provocative and attempting to exploit this history or just kinda imploding right before our eyes or a combination therein.
When I watch this video I think of how after Reconstruction (1865 and after) mainstream culture said that Black men wanted White women sexually and responded by terrorizing Black men (Birth of a Nation) and Black communities as a whole by lynching them. The reality is that Black women were being sexually assaulted by both White and Black men, frequently with impunity.
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