Is Kendrick Lamar’s art a step toward liberation, or just another reflection of capitalism’s grip on culture? This piece challenges the idea that individual success within an oppressive system can lead to collective freedom. . . .
Pop Culture
oppenheimer and they cloned tyrone. there is a living god and he’s…white?
“shit cain and abel was trippen anyway shit they tryna kill each other wit an axe they put this shit all in the bible ” -rxk nephew it is hot outside this month, the hottest month on living record, and with hot film releases to match. oppenheimer, along with its companion movie, barbie, have released with the most cultural currency since fidget spinners hit the streets, or the last marvel movie hit the theaters. seeing as cultural currency finds itself ubiquitous and begs itself into relevance even when one does not have interest in the subject which it transmits itself . . .
Celebrating Our Girls: The Women of LSU Basketball
This LSU women’s team is giving young Black girls that love basketball look at how to fight back against misogynoir. . . .
Decolonizing Wakanda
Wakanda Forever presents Afrofuturism as Black and Indigenous superpowers fighting each other, and that narrative is inherently anti-Black. . . .
Star Spangled Blackness
There’s always been something about Black people wrapped in the American flag that has made me uneasy. For me, it’s a symbolism indicative of the intimate bonds we have with our oppressor, and the way it results in a longing to be accepted by those whose survival is predicated on our destruction. So, when I heard of the 1619 Project, I had immediate reservations. I’m well aware that 1619 was the year that the first recorded enslaved Africans came to the shores of the British colony, which would later become the state of Virginia. I support the need for African . . .
Identity Without Responsibility
It’s very difficult to really get to the bottom of an issue with a celebrity at the center. On Hood Communist, we have written and talked a lot about the issues created by celebrity-centered analysis. Once the concept of celebrity enters a room, it stands in the middle of the floor and expands outward in every direction, making it impossible for other issues, like class, to get a word in. The conversation can no longer be about the issue itself, only the spectacle of the celebrity and what we project on our relationship with that person. This is proven true . . .
The Absurdity of “Diary of a Tired Black Man”
There is an amazingly sad example of a program aired on the IMDB network called “Diary of a Tired Black Man.” Part fiction, part documentary (street interviews with people), full insanity, this effort illustrated in clear terms Kwame Ture’s statement that any analysis that doesn’t include our enemies is a worthless analysis. What he meant by that is any oppressed people who attempt to explain the conditions of their people who leave out the system causing their oppression will always come up with a confused conclusion. We wish to add our own attempt at a logical statement to Kwame’s spot . . .
Eat Jay-Z
Jay-Z recently had an incoherent rant on Twitter Spaces that ‘Eat The Rich’ and being called a capitalist is racist. This is a good reason to keep identifying him as a capitalist and to keep trying to ‘eat’ him. People who talk much about not being intimidated are actually intimidated most of the time. The capitalist class is afraid and so are the Black capitalist class, the gatekeepers, that they use to hold down our race. But why are Black capitalists like Jay-Z afraid? The oppressions of the Black race and that of the poor masses intersect, so much so . . .