- Listened to Yeezus
- Wanted to talk about it
- No I don’t
- I want to slap white critics
- STFU.
It’s a good record. I don’t think people outside of a peice’s intended audience should comment on it, if they’re incapable of owning up to being an outsider. This record wasn’t for me, I let it exist and thrive and I don’t deconstruct it because I am an outsider.
I kind of hate to make the comparison, but it’s the same as how I feel about, like, the Wiggles. I don’t bring my judgy indie-elitist ass in to a room full of 5 year olds and tell them the song suffers lyrically.
When I hear a song like ‘New Slaves’ I kind of think to myself, “oops” and try to stay out of the way.
By no means do I want to derail conversations about the record into “Self hating white guy problems”. I’m just trying to say, I dunno, jesus fucking christ…
Just shut up, other white people.
That’s all.
Henry Miller, Santa Monica
sendinglovelettersintooblivion:
(via bunnyfood)
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
ATX
Just in case you didn’t hear me the first time.
Superman was created by two Jewish kids of Eastern European descent in the ’30s. Do you understand why Krypton had to be destroyed, do you understand what an illegal immigrant God-man who turns into the ultimate American and whose mortal enemy is a nativist industrialist and who protects and (arguably) betters his adopted home would have meant to two Jewish kids of Eastern European descent?
people totally lose sight of the fact that superman was written at a time when european-american immigrants were not part of the white hegemony. the superman narrative only makes sense in 2013 if he’s latino or middle eastern but nobody’s going to do that
