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When you hear people trash the culture, it’s generally because they feel disincluded from the culture. There is a thing called “cultural cool” and it used to mean John Wayne and such, but it came to mean Little Richard / rock-n-roll & Prince, long hair, Afros, ballers & hip hop.
And it often emerged from black culture, initially outright appropriated during the 1950s by Pat Boone etal but unable to be kept from white teenagers who eventually went straight to the source. Ditto jazz a generation before.
The inability to command the culture is part of why conservatives are so pissed off, even when they command much of the government. They cannot bring the culture to heel. And President @BarackObama Obama and @MichelleObama are embraced by the culture in a way the Trumps are not.
Already paying dividend: she directly asked a Sanders surrogate why Bernie skipped Selma... which I’m still shocked he did... and it’s exactly the kind of question that gets asked when you put black people on TV.
