Aug 20, 2020
It’s time for sonic reparations
It’s a tempting telling; that on the club floor, four-count beat and bassline pulsing in time, all of us can find liberation, no matter our creed or color or sexuality. It’s a message that is sold elsewhere, in wicked incarnations; that if we just come together as one, we can be truly free in our “post-racial” society. Because all lives matter, right?
#hey all - if you're a fellow nonblack daft punk and/or ed banger fan I'd like to ask that you read this#it's an older article but just as relevant now and I'm glad I came across it#histories#links#sourced#and now for a bit of reflection:#I think very broadly going through this was not so much a lesson in history as a lesson in rewiring my own behaviors re: antiblackness#catching myself going ''well actually 'discovery' is a reference to-'' was a good cue in realizing that uh#nope I was just getting defensive because the author was confronting (the symbolic end of) dp's contributions to ages of racism. let it go.#the tl;dr here is that I think this article has a lot to offer and if you're someone who's working towards like.#filling in those gaps or veered paths in your brain... here's one thing you can read today.#(also: an obvious big kudos to hassan ghanny for authoring this thing in the first place.)
