this was not for you

“It was only a mat­ter of time be­fore some­one co-opt­ed Child­ish Gambino’s ‘This Is Amer­i­ca’ video, but who knew it would be so hor­ri­ble? YouTube come­di­enne Nicole Ar­bour, who got dragged a cou­ple of years ago for a fat-sham­ing video, de­cid­ed to put a ‘fem­i­nist’ twist on Don­ald Glover’s latest.”
—Yesha Calla­han, Child­ish Gambino’s ‘This Is Amer­i­ca’ Has Been Colonized
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW8whgmyTNU

No hon­ey. No. This was not for you. This isn’t edgy or cool. It miss­es the point at a lev­el so pro­found it makes it.

For my White Artist Friends that want to fight about this:
It IS pos­si­ble to sup­port strug­gle that isn’t yours and re­spect and ap­pre­ci­ate the art cre­at­ed by those go­ing through it with­out mak­ing it ap­ply to you, about you, re­fo­cus on you or min­i­miz­ing it to pro­mote your­self. Not every­thing is for the tak­ing – what­ev­er you were raised to believe. 

The ba­sic re­quire­ment for pas­tiche and mim­ic­ry and remix­ing ex­ist­ing work is to el­e­vate and ex­pand on the orig­i­nal, to add nu­ance and lay­ers and new ideas that up­lift the old work and add to the col­lec­tive val­ue of the orig­i­nal con­ver­sa­tion. This doesn’t pass the smell test for any of that.

I used to work in a gallery.
Rule one … wear gloves and re­spect the art – keep it safe from your un­in­tend­ed fingerprints.
Rule two … know what it’s worth be­fore you touch it.
Rule three … don’t as­sume you know the artist’s in­ten­tions and ask first be­fore mov­ing any piece of their work.
Rule four … Don’t steal the art and try to pass it off as your own.
 
 

—dar­cy totten

Flom­mist Dar­cy Tot­ten is de­vot­ed to il­lu­mi­nat­ing of­ten-over­looked voic­es and telling sto­ries from new an­gles. Dar­cy has worked with MTV, Spike TV, NBC/Hearst, ABC, Cor­bis, the State of Texas, Panthea­con, RGBB, LLC, KIA mo­tors, The Promised Band, ACSA, the NBA, sev­er­al Black Lives Mat­ter chap­ters and is the co-founder of Ac­tivism Ar­tic­u­lat­ed. Copy­right © 2018 Dar­cy Totten.

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