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remmick and the vampires present a false dichotomy

Hogwood (the man who sold the twins the mill) and the KKK are very obviously bad, they are outright malicious bigotry, they use the n-word and plan to lynch the moore's and their community, they are so blatantly racist and hateful it's unavoidably obvious

remmick and the vampires however say that they believe in equality, say that they want to create a community, and yet remmick's goal throught the movie is to both metaphorically and literally steal sammie's ability for his own goal of reconnecting with his irish ancestors, a white man wants to harm a young and upcoming black man and use talents for his own goals without giving any regard to said black man's autonomy or agency

when sammie sings 'I lied to you' in the juke joint and calls forth the spirits from the past and future, it's a blend of cultures; west african, east asian, native american, and african american song and dance blend together across time and space to tell the stories of blues; where it takes its inspiration from, the music genres it then inspired, the complex history of black american culture and its intersections with other peoples of colour in the USA

when remmick and the vampires kill and turn the people in the juke joint, and then perform rocky road to dublin, only remmick's irish culture is on display, there is no influence from the black and asian people he has forcibly assimilated into his song, it's juxtaposition with the earlier scene is blatant, remmick is more than happy to assimilate people of colour into his 'community' of 'equals', and yet its only whiteness that is celebrated, that is normative

remmick claims that he's doing people a favour by turning them immortal, conviently ignoring that he literally has to suck the life out of them to do so, trapping their spirits on earth, he claims that he's the good guy, that the KKK were gonna come and lynch everyone at the joint in the morning anyways, conviently ignoring that he's doing the exact same thing; a white man leading a mob to kill a bunch of black people

in the final confrontation with sammie remmick repeatedly dunks him into the river, a forceful baptism. both the celtic irish and enslaved west africans had their religions suppressed and destroyed by colonialsm, had christianity forced upon them by the british empire, and in that scene we see remmick repeating that cycle, using christianity to inflict harm, and sammie reclaiming christianity, despite all the complex emotions he has arround it, as many colonised peoples have and still do, when he recites the lord's prayer

remmick and the vampires are no less racist than hogwood and the KKK, are no less predatory or evil, they're just less blantant about their bigotry, they represent the system, the normalised white supremacy that is seeped into the very foundation of culture in america, the point isnt that remmick would call any of the black characters in the movie the n-word, i dont think he would, the point is that his exploitation and desacration and inserting-himself-into-when-he-wasn't-invited of the juke joint is a microcosm of what white people have done to black american arts and culture since ever since there have been black and white people in america, and even before that

theres a reason vultures are shown early on in this movie

They regret getting office jobs

me, unsure of how to add an additional piece of context to my sentence:

the humble parentheses:

Palestinian resistance fighter reading “Quotations from Chairman Mao”, 1969

A displaced Palestinian couple held their wedding in the camp.

From everydaypalestine

"Lovers' Tryst" by Yuri Pimenov (1972)

“I want us to be doing things, prolonging life’s duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.” ― Michel de Montaigne

Родина | Motherland;

Anatoly Zubtsov, 1959.

Всемирный Конгресс Женщин | International Women's Congress;

Raisa Zenkova, 1965.

what was i made for?

“ophelia” by john everett millais but it’s barbie and for the sake of this concept let’s pretend that there is in fact water in barbieland

or praise the lord. burn my house. i get lost. i freak out. you come home and hold me tight. AS IF IT NEVER HAPPENED AT ALLLLLLL

Julia de Ruvo

Saigon, Vietnam. Credit to laphanblog (Instagram).

Sudan Archives for Natural Brown Prom Queen album, 2022

or praise the lord. burn my house. i get lost. i freak out. you come home and hold me tight. AS IF IT NEVER HAPPENED AT ALLLLLLL

beds for a quiet little exhibition

Hope posting

Song: The Orb of Dreamers by The Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra

Mary Oliver, from “the fourth sign of the zodiac” published in Blue Horses

not all of it is bad i think….…. we are going to be okay i think.

Tetsuo Aoki

Two People

Woodcut

Davidson Galleries

“The Blue Iris”, from Andrea Zanatelli’s embroidery series

beds for a quiet little exhibition

Solidarity.✌🏾🇵🇸❤️

Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Thinking about this a lot lately

Black Panther Party for Self-Defense propaganda poster thread. Most of the art was drawn by artist and ex-Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, comrade Emory Douglas.