She's
holding Malcolm's rifle, and pointing the master's weapon against her
oppressor. She's trying to aim at the thing that has threatened the
lives of Black women, paralleling threats to Malcolm's life. (Rape
culture, misogyny, etc.) She's going in and starting a conversation,
and she's appropriating the weapons used against us to do it. She's
pissed off. She's using a similar platform that Malcolm did, riling
people up with words. I think she's asking, what's it like to feel
humiliated by listening to a song? To have you reduced to parts and cast
you in a role where you are there for her own carnal pleasures and ego
boosting? To make you feel less than if you don't have what it takes to
please someone like her?
Like
you stated, the stamp didn't get as much heat as Minaj gets, precisely
because she's a Black woman employing the tools that have been used
against her. I personally don't think it's the right approach, but it
sure got brothas' attention, because talking, caring, writing, and
saying no did not, for the most part. I think this is the conversation
we should be having here - why is it that we resort to the master's
tools to get our perpetrators to feel? I sure felt hurt for the lookin'
ass nigga she was talking to in the video, and then remembered that the
hurt is the same kind I feel when I listen to most hip-hop lyrics
performed by men.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
cathedral-style defense of the indefensible....,
theroot | Zaheer,
I'm glad you made note that the image is being misread, that she's
placing herself in the position of Malcolm. And I thought your points on
stamps were compelling. But there's a point I think that's being
missed. I'm going to mirror a post I had commented in another facebook
group discussing this issue:
By CNu at February 16, 2014
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