I just think it does a disservice to this music to dismiss it as some satanist shit when they gravitated toward that to explain their circumstances and characterize the violence around them more than anything. A lot of fear mongering surrounds Memphis rap.
Three 6 Mafia denied satanism allegations and all grew up in the church. Only one who I think was kinda bout it was Koopsta, and he said the ones who were freaked out distanced themselves. Koop got into satanism out of frustration toward God.
I remember when China was ramping up appraisals of corrupt officials there was a huge liberal backlash against the illiberalism of their procedures. In hindsight this seems vastly more preferable to our system of letting powerful people do whatever they want with no consequences.
It’s also terrible for sleep, and higher temperatures are associated with higher levels of crime. Oh, and higher concentrations of CO2 in the ambient air literally impair cognitive functioning. Climate change is making us “dumber.”
YOU GUYS ARE COPS!!!!! The surveillance state has become too much. You all monitor and record everyone too much! Stop being a fucking cop! ACAB for your ass too!
This is why I called Obama an uncle tom and the bourgeois press wanted me to apologize when I ran in 2016, and my response was - for what? Obama ended up being the worst thing to ever happen to African peoples in the U.S. because he helped to normalize white colonial power.
When you really think about it 1912 wasn't a long time ago but so much has changed including social norms because why does my congolese dad constantly tells me he doesn't like my locs 😭
Global politics is a game of power, prove your strength and you'll have you way. If you show weakness, you'll be oppressed and plundered just as they are doing to Africa.
This is exactly why the issue has had such an outsized impact in Dem primaries despite registering as a low salience issue according to traditional polling metrics. It’s 100% a credibility thing.
He does know that he can shut up at any time right? like you don’t have to volunteer this level of cognitive dissonance for a man who literally chased a Black woman through multiple states because she dared to escape being his slave.
He did turn Libya into a giant slave market, didn't he.
And yes, greatness is negated by being a slaveholding genocidaire. Watch closely though, you can see that he is struggling with making the case for what he knows to be nonsense.
The late Glen Ford said that was an Obama specialty, reconciling the irreconcilable. And those of you who defended him should not have the nerve to be mad now. Obama was always like this.