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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. An image of a held sign. It...An image of a held sign wit...
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.
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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.
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
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