Thanks to Macon D at stuff white people do for this clip:
In Stew's song, you can hear the anger, the scorn, the utter contempt for white privilege's bullshit. It is beauteous - as is the uncomfortable silence of, I assume, the predominantly white audience.
(It strikes a thrilling chord in me, similar to the chord struck by Nina Simone's 'Pirate Jenny.)
More about Stew, his Tony, and his new film, here.
2 comments:
Wow. Love it. Thanks. It reminds me of a poem by Lorna Dee Cervantes: "Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked How I, An Intelligent Well Read Person Could Believe in the War Between The Races": "You think this is nothing/but faddish exaggeration. But they/ are not shooting at you."
http://www.chicanas.com/lornabridge.html
ha! love it.
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