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Thanks for sharing your critique of critiques from the right and left, your predictions were correct. But what has me confused is the title you chose for this particular Thread:
Although symbolism permeates Gambino's video, throughout, I find no clear and direct or distinct symbolism for Reparations, as did the critique from the right; so, what makes you say this is America video boils down to Reparations?
We can certainly infer Reparations, but cannot definitively make the claim that the artwork boils down to reparations.
The Difficulty in DefiningDonald Glover’s‘This is America’ It’s powerful, problematic, and its motives are unclear. Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) posing as if firing a gun in the music video for “This is America”.
I woke up on Sunday morning to see #ThisIsAmerica trending, and clicked through to find Childish Gambino’s new music video on YouTube. The first viewing reinforced my thoughts on Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino): He’s carving out a unique place for himself in American popular culture — a place that’s difficult to define because it’s somewhere between commercial success and subversion, this is America is an indictment of a…
I'll admit I think everything boil down to reparations and a few other things. America behaves too much like a corporation to not make a class action lawsuit case among other strategies for reparations.
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