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One of the things I noticed about the Donald Glover sensationalism is that the Hot Take Industrial Complex™ regurgitated things like “Showing Black people being brutally murdered shocks white people to the reality they ignore,” but that…is entirely ahistorical. White people distributed photos of lynchings through postcards, newspaper articles. They would keep the castrated organs of Black men in jars as souvenirs. Lynching was, many times, a communal experience for white spectators. You all know of the infamous photo of the white people smiling with a lynching victim in the backdrop. Even today, the deaths and violent barbarism that happens to Black people are distributed, typically without warning, all over social media. There was never a point in Black American history where white people, and the country at large, were not fixated on Black people’s death. It looms. There was never ignorance of it, just deliberate indifference or glee. I laugh at everyone who thinks repurposing this reality in the name of “anti-racism” could appeal to anything but a well established status quo. The most vapid attempts at “shock” and “controversy” can be passed off as genuinely transgressive so long as you toss some radical fluff to it lol. Is this really the state of mainstream anti-racism. 🔍👀