Thread by @JHMarble

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.

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.

And speaking of awards, if @Beyonce would have recorded #ChocolateRain, she would have won them for it.

Don’t laugh. I started my career as an entertainment reporter. And my autistic brain spent two hours imagining 200 various artists singing it. Beyoncé was always the best. 😂

I mean, it’s not like I can go around saying to friends “@Beyonce should record #ChocolateRain”, because there is A LOT of context lost.

But, listen to this arrangement and then imagine what the producers of her ballads would tease out from here.

https://twitter.com/tayzonday/status/1266117707579052032?s=21

Also, listen to black people. If there’s anything to take away from my (now rambling) thread, it’s that.

#BlackLivesMatter 
#BlackDisabledLivesMatter
#BlackAutisticLivesMatter
#ChocolateRain