Kendrick got the yts on the clock app teaching history lessons inspired by his 40 acres and a mule line at the superbowl! Y’all can NEVER make me hate that man!!!
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He's a poetic genius. The fact that he's managed to both inspire and make a lot of YT ppl mad is in itself inspiring. You'll never hear a bad word about him come from me
I can't listen to music sometimes because I have headache issues and bass will lay me out, but this basic ass white woman is in awe of Kendrick's lyrics and abilities. A poet. All the respect on his name.
I felt a little embarrassed but that was the first my 7th grader had heard about 40 acres and a mile. He luckily goes to an awesome school that discussed the half time show in civics.
Kendrick is the reason I took the time and learned about proposed reparations after the Civil War, and why they didn't happen, when I was 18 after TBAB came out. Kendrick will always have my complete and total respect.
I mean, I’m not a millennial, but when you say something like “yes but” you’re contradicting something someone else has said. That’s just how English works. But I do agree with everything else you said
I’m amazed how many people haven’t ever heard of 40 acres and a mule. I learned in school about it, I think maybe 5th grade. Glad more people see it now too.
Im from SW MO and I don’t remember anyone teaching that to us. Makes me realize just how yt catered our education is. Especially in small town Midwest. I hope this makes more ppl look into it
Where I live we studied it in grade school, and my educators were all white. We also studied all the lies of the reconstruction era and Jim Crow laws. I grew up in a blue state
I may be out of line (yt dude here) so feel free to correct me but I suspect that Kendrick gets away with being effective like this precisely because he's the subtle knife next to Public Enemy's hammer to the face. PE don't get the invite; Kendrick gets close enough to use his shiv.
This! I would guess most people (excluding black people) missed a lot of his messages the day of. He’s been educating millions of people every day since then without having to say a thing. I’ve watched it a dozen times. Never gets old
I get it. I’m just wondering how long it will be before some spaz comes along and tries to claim it’s the new N word or some stupid thing. People are so weird now
I've been FASCINATED by the "40 Acres and a Mule" investigation on the Reveal podcast. Started volunteering to try transcribing old National Archives documents because of it.
Brodi's a little off...a big focus of the Reveal investigation is that we're now finding documentation that "40 acres" was a real thing, as land deeds/titles are being found in paperwork proving it happened after the Civil War.
Basically, it covers the unfulfilled promises of reparations after slavery. The pod dives into how this contributed to today’s racial wealth gap and systemic inequality. Highly recommend
I think because they’re protected legal documents they’re not accessible to the general volunteering public but they do generally need more eyes/organizers because it does help tribal nations better organize their legal precedents (of which there are few) under treaty law in the justice system.
Oh, totally. Like I said, he's super talented, and I can definitely recognize that. He's just not my style. Obviously two different people, but people love Eminem, and I can't stand him since he stopped battling Cage.
Also I know yall mean well but I beg of you disengage from debating that troll under this post and just report them. They’re miserable and attention seeking! We don’t feed trolls we starve them!
The halftime show was perfection. If anyone was feeling any level of discomfort, they need to sit with that discomfort and try to understand why they feel that way. Be uncomfortable and learn.
It’s a cultural divide I’m gonna get it on the flow
Forty acres and the mule this is bigger than the music
They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence
I guess the revolution WILL be televised, after all. 🙌🏻
Been calling him Comrade Kenny for a long time, for a reason. Man man is about the action, and as if I couldn't respect the man anymore than I already do
History written by white people has left a lot out. This has nothing to do with younger or older generation. My mom‘s generation did ad nauseam history on the Revolutionary War. Mine? I know far too much about the Oregon Trail. White washed version of the Civil War in both generations.
I lucked into being the child of a librarian who loved history, so while I have massive blindspots of my own, I am aware of how who writes history changes what we learn. In my experience there is always an important untold narrative worth seeking out.
80’s and 90’s kids had Spike Lee, Public Enemy and BDP to thank for soooo much black intelligence, discipline, and love of afrocentric culture. We said “knowledge of self” and “conscious”, which were harder for YTs to use against us like they did with “woke”
I was lukewarm on him until I listened a bunch of times and realized he was standing ten toes down on topics like racism, erasure of history, the gender war, and personal/societal growth. He's brilliant!
Even though I didn’t understand half of what he was saying, I got the point and I’ll bet so did Trump and he was pissed. That’s why he left early plus his team lost.
Mediocre white people are embarrassment to all European Americans. I thought the performance was great and didn’t get everything in it till I research the song more but it’s pretty cool and deep.
That performance opened the door for me to talk to my staff about American history and how it related to freed slaves, their ancestors as well as the indigenous people. Last week we went over environmental, social and economic injustice built into law and this week, we’re gonna start talking 1/
2/ about red lining. Sunday, the kids (all white teens and early 20’s college students) will start to learn about the un-televised civil rights movement. I had 6 copies of White Fragility delivered and they’re all waiting for their turn. It doesn’t seem like much but we live in a small, red town in
3/ upstate NY and these kids don’t have a lot of exposure to black and brown kids their own age. I’m hoping that they will take what I taught them and build on it and share it. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
I didn’t realize that any of this was a thing until I left the states for college. I started learning about the residential schools and that led me down the path of colonial violence and that led me to slavery and the despicable things everyday white Americans did.
That is an inspiration to everyone who is willing to stand up, be heard and be counted, in the fight against MAGA Nazi Republican "Christian" fascism.
Together, there are more than 120 MILLION Americans who can make a difference.
No more lethargy. No more "I'll get around to it."
DO IT NOW!
Yt people here can provide history as well. 40 acres and a mule lead to Tulsa's Black Wall Street. The US government required Cherokees to provide reparations, land and cash, to the people who they enslaved. This generated wealth that made Black Wall Street possible.
Right?!? It’s shocking how much humans willfully hide. I grew up in a tiny town, and apparently there was a POW camp on the outskirts. NO ONE said a word. I only learned about it from Japanese exchange students who knew of it. Broken pottery and artifacts on the abandoned site. Not a word.
I love people are talking about this. White settlers got 160 acres just to settle and develop land. Former slaves were promised 40 in reparation and never got it.
It's a mixed bag of reactions to yt people talking about it on tt, at least from what I saw. Some people are happy they understood & some are saying that it wasn't for yt people & that by talking about it & appreciating it is appropriation. All I can say is it was beautifully done & I loved it 💜
If you wrote a diss track about me, and it went platinum in 7 countries, sold 6 million copies in the US alone, won 5 Grammy’s, and then brought my fuckin ex out on stage to cripwalk while you performed it at the superbowl… I’d just give up. 😂
My husband & I have watched many YouTube videos breaking down the entire show, brilliance I must say! We’ve watched even more videos of ppl’s reaction to it. I can’t recall being so drawn to any other performance. Incredible work. Before the SB I’m embarrassed to say we had never heard of him.
I've been amazed how mask off the remaining "normal" people became. "I couldn't understand a word he said" criticism reads pretty fucked up. Especially from metal heads.
Kendrick is what every man should aspire to be. His truth in words will live on through the end of time. His courage makes me proud to be an American 🇺🇸
I teach high school English and loved having something I could use to teach students some history as well as effective use of symbolism and metaphor that resonated so much with them and kept them interested. It was also great timing, since we're studying The Hate U Give by @angiethomas.bsky.social
We also discussed the performance for about a week, but now we can keep going back to it as we learn about U.S. imperialism, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, etc. It's very cool to have the kids so engaged!
It's great! I also teach Social Studies and we do mostly Canadian history, but I've been teaching a US Revolution unit and we've discussed the hypocrisy of a nation founded on "freedom" where Black people remained enslaved (or imprisoned) as well as how/when society decides violence is acceptable.
I had to look up lots of cultural references, but I learned a lot. And at this time in our history ( when “End Racism”) was removed from the field, centering Black culture was not just appropriate, it was necessary!
My man Warren Haynes has been singing about that for 30 years now! Check out Gov't Mule and one of their signature songs from their debut record in 1995. https://youtu.be/ig7Jh3tAxcA?si=YqO3LzuExbjBYGDt
So...Kendrick definetly won.
Serena did some gang dance. A "crab walk"?
Why you glaring at me?
Crab?
Why are you glaring harder?
I'm scared and confused. Can I turn the TV back on now?
Wu-Tang educated me 25 years ago on Killah Priest - One Step. 1555, 40 acres and a mule, Deuteronomy 28:68. Even Ceasar Borgia being the “white” face of Jesus.
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His critique of culture and insight no matter what culture is inspiring.
"Why should they get land and free mules? Thank God it didn't happen!"
Tv off!
I tried quiet decorum. Clearly it’s ineffective garbage.
Time to get LOUD, be a clear and vocal ally.
It is truly “We the People…” against the oligarchy. 🤜🏾🤛🏼
I am complementing them all
Also musicians are some of the most powerful activists
Or used to be before millennials
Shame we can't ask Prince
Back when I was watching football decades ago, I would have been thrilled to see Public Enemy in the halftime show. 😁
That would give the yts something to write angry FB posts about. 🍿
- signed White Guy
https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-for-free-interlude-lyrics
(The bonus level is the AIRR)
Forty acres and the mule this is bigger than the music
They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence
I guess the revolution WILL be televised, after all. 🙌🏻
“Started with nothing but government cheese, but now I can seize the government, too.”
YASSSSSSSSS KDOT
“Used to be fuck that *fella*, now it plural. Fuck everybody”
Every generation has to learn what came before, and also understand why we know it so well.
I can see parallels all the way back to ancient Greece, thanks to great teachers.
Which town? 😭
Like an adult celebrating they learned how to do laundry or stop putting their feet up on the couch
Weirds me out that it’s so unknown.
Together, there are more than 120 MILLION Americans who can make a difference.
No more lethargy. No more "I'll get around to it."
DO IT NOW!
My man! Wasn't afraid to speak his mind.
https://youtu.be/9KgNaRQ_J-c?si=Y3czGH31cOb2uW5k
😂 😂 😂
Some of my favorite reactionaries on YouTube are:
@LawTWINZ
@ScruFaceJeanOfficial
@NoLifeShaq
There’s a ton more but I watch them pretty regularly
for blacks to say "ayyyyy"
and whites to buy black product.
stop using race to grift
Serena did some gang dance. A "crab walk"?
Why you glaring at me?
Crab?
Why are you glaring harder?
I'm scared and confused. Can I turn the TV back on now?