What’s the function of the Charleston shooting recreation for Black ppl living amidst insistent violence? dramatizations of lynchings satiate the lyncher. they can’t even figure as a corrective or retributive fantasy, only a remixed massacre. same trigger finger. same niggas dead
living in the wake of anti-Black violence is to be berated by the factual fungibility of our bodies everyday. terror is magnified by the virality of Black death. when artists answer the [scripted] call to reproduce these scenes, why don’t we call them accomplices?
who needs nazis when you got teamblack malegenius eager to fling black corpses for yt clout? that’s the real tea & i stand by the shit. black men serve a dead black body over a fire beat and call themselves avant-grade. must be french for lazy.
if my specificity of "black men" has you feeling some type of way, imagine beyoncé recreating the ASSAULT RIFLE MASSACRE OF A BAPTIST CHURCH CHOIR in one of her music videos. exactly.
black women and femme artists are expected to cultivate images that allow us to imagine otherwise, to imagine something other than a one-dimensional existence of suffering. they are burdened with instructing care. meanwhile, black men dance in black blood and call it high art.
then they get praised for making a brunch out of us! serving up dead black people like they're fucking mimosas. it's boring and lazy and violent and musty. and these same niggas disdain and abuse the black women expected to care for their heavy heavy hearts. bullshit. do better.
"re-traumatizing black ppl is the key to legibility as a high artist." - @tapji
even though childish's audience is obviously white people, he chose not to recreate scenes of violence towards them. why do you think that is? why didn't he recreate sandy shook? las vegas? it's almost as if... dead black people are a natural resource mined for dramatic effect...
