The saddest part about Black men admitting that they have no fucking clue what Kendrick was saying is that now we know that a lot of grown ass men have very low reading and comprehension skills for sure
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And no appreciation for imagery, nuance, or subtlety, which is why Black art is damn near in crisis now.
Ironically, though, the venn diagram between ppl who couldn't see the messaging in Dot's performance but peel back 82 non-existent layers of conspiracy in everything else is damn near a circle
Been saying this forever! When mf's were saying Snowfall was "slow"(?!), I had to tell 'em "It's not the show that's slow, sorry".
Character development, nuances, foreshadowing, and storytelling just be damned, huh? Smooth-brains
I think it’s time we realized (for those who haven’t already) decades of deprioritizing education in this country has, in fact, created a “costal elite” class. Sadly the elite part is those of us who stay intellectually curious and can understand context clues. This is true on the right AND left.
I would add the further fragmentation of our families and community. Most of my musical taste was formed through spending time around my elders and at cookouts that spanned generations and genres of music.
Oh for sure. I was raised in a Smooth Jazz-Classic Rock household as an eldritch millennial. I stay on Sirius and Pandora because Spotify does not have any depth before the year 2000. Sade Radio on Pandora is my jam.
But who are we supposed to be catering to? My state taxes me so we can pay for red states’ safety nets while our public school system needs help after getting wiped out by the Jarvis-Gann initiative/Reagan. Nobody has time or energy to bow down.
I’m super confused by your question. I also live in a state that pays more out to the country then we take in. Are you asking how to prioritize CA kids’ needs over red states kids needs? Because that’s a pancakes v. waffles kinda skeet.
NOW? 😭
the repetition of surface level & sexually perverse conversation definitely gives that away.
lack of experience wrapped in the ability to quickly spout off previously rehearsed responses. no forward thought because stepping out of bounds would reveal how uneducated most of them truly are.
I know this a conversation about black men but you also just perfectly expressed the anti-education crusade from maga and their precursors so well I got goosebumps
It makes even more sense when you realize that half the country reads on a 6th grade level so they only comprehend at a 6th grade level. Im here arguing with a black man thats talking about he was bored. Like how? This is your people performing. Ultimately they just haters.
I know I'm bout to make a killing when I step in the club like "Salutations, divinity personified. Wouldst thou like to fornicate in yonder automobile"
I got ones who I went to a prestigious arts high school with talking about it’s over their heads. Sir we were in humanities together and EYE understood what KDot was doing.
Some just don't care. In some ways, Kendrick pissed them off defending Serena and times he's defended other Black women. I myself got cussed out a few times defending MTS.
Like didn’t yalls mamas tell yall that its better to be silent and let folks assume you stupid than to open ya mouth and prove it? Or was that just my Gemini ass mama? 😭
Naw my mama (a Capricorn) would tell me if I put myself in conversations about things I dont understand, I can’t be mad when someone calls me stupid. 😭
Idk but “Kendrick bored me, I just couldn’t connect to the symbolism” is giving me the fucking ick sir you are a grown ass BLACK man living in America. Like Hazel you are 38 years old what do you mean thought provoking art bores you G?
Like there was so much being said with that performance and it worries me that niggas are so disconnected from their culture that they can’t pick up on cultural social queues especially in a political climate such as this!
Like how are yall leading the community ANYWHERE if you can’t think past a 3rd graders point of view? Yall wasnt made to reinterpret things after reading em?
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Ironically, though, the venn diagram between ppl who couldn't see the messaging in Dot's performance but peel back 82 non-existent layers of conspiracy in everything else is damn near a circle
Character development, nuances, foreshadowing, and storytelling just be damned, huh? Smooth-brains
Go to fucking therapy & dominate yourself homie
the repetition of surface level & sexually perverse conversation definitely gives that away.
lack of experience wrapped in the ability to quickly spout off previously rehearsed responses. no forward thought because stepping out of bounds would reveal how uneducated most of them truly are.