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someone on reddit explained 😭

10,000 notes - well executed crowd pleaser

1,000 notes - cult classic

100 notes - uncompromising avant-garde art for those of discerning taste

10 notes - misunderstood genius that the culture is not yet ready for

You survive that, you're tossed off the boat and given a name in a language you don't even understand (and they'll whip you if you don't figure it out in fifteen seconds). You are now seen as chattel, no better than an animal (and YES I know cattle and chattel aren't the same. Cattle are still chattel.)

This situation won't be solved in your lifetime. You are going to live and die as a slave to these monsters who think they're better than you because of their white skin and some made up bullshit. Your children will likely live and die as slaves, and you might not even get to keep them because they will also be sold off as cattle, as is your "master's" or "mistress'" right.

And after surviving under the physical and psychological horror of all of that, you happen to get a vision of your descendant in 2026, fed and bathed with privileges no longer within your comprehension including reading and talking to white people, saying that "it's too hard to discuss racism here, I can't change anything". As if the change has not happened to put them in that situation.

Two children ignoring the artwork at the San Francisco Museum of Art. ca. 1960s