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This was the back of the #BlackDisabledLivesMatter sign (designed by @jtknoxroxs this week & spreading around the world) at SF Police HQ yesterday.
I was afraid people would take my reference to #ChocolateRain as a joke. People GOT it. I wanted to honor the voice of @TayZonday.
I was afraid people would take my reference to #ChocolateRain as a joke. People GOT it. I wanted to honor the voice of @TayZonday.
That song has hit me hard this week (check out @TayZonday for a recent arrangement). It’s partly because we treated it as a meme in 2007, yet what was sung is what’s being said today. It’s what #DoTheRightThing said in 1989. It’s what’s always been said, but hasn’t been heard.
And then, after being hit with the true meaning of the song, I learned @TayZonday is both from Minneapolis and autistic.
Like @Hannahgadsby’s #Nanette (which won her an Emmy), #ChocolateRain is that sort of prophetic art only (mostly) autistic people can seem to really pull off.
Like @Hannahgadsby’s #Nanette (which won her an Emmy), #ChocolateRain is that sort of prophetic art only (mostly) autistic people can seem to really pull off.
Can we talk about #ChocolateRain and how what America (me) treated as a meme in 2007 is actually a devastating call to wake up to the reality of systemic racism?
Oh, and it’s creator is an autisic black man from Minneapolis.
Oh, and it’s creator is an autisic black man from Minneapolis.
For the unfamiliar, #ChocolateRain was one of the first viral videos on YouTube. At the time, most were focused on its hypnotic music and the juxtaposition of a deep voice coming from its baby-faced creator/singer.
“Chocolate Rain” refers to how the impact of racism falls differently on some and not others:
Chocolate rain
No one wants to hear about it now
Chocolate rain
Wish real hard it goes away somehow
Chocolate rain
Makes the best of friends begin to fight
Chocolate rain
No one wants to hear about it now
Chocolate rain
Wish real hard it goes away somehow
Chocolate rain
Makes the best of friends begin to fight
