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Jacob  ·  3516 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Kanye West Say About the Black Experience in America

    In a time where we accuse each other daily of all sorts of dubious motives toward the movement, these three men serve as a narrative of not just where we're are but how much we have left to figure out.

As long a we're supposed to be hating on this article, I don't think that three males likely are representative of the female half of the "american black experience."





kleinbl00  ·  3516 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Judnick Mayard is a writer living in New York City. Follow her @Judnikki

I'd wager she has more credibility to make that choice than either of us, friend.

Jacob  ·  3516 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hahahaha, that's perfect! I still think to disagree with her on that, though.

(I'll elaborate later, I just woke up)

Edit: I didn't actually have too much to say, but mornings are mornings -- training to be an early bird isn't easy.

I meant to say that the fact that the article was written by a black woman does mean the article is written from the female point of view, but it doesn't make what she said about the three men making a triangle representing the black experience necessarily accurate. The black male experience, maybe. But she was talking like men could represent the women's half of the it. I'm no black female, but I'd imagine what they experience is different than what the men experience. There are differences regardless of race.

insomniasexx  ·  3515 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Elaboration time! :P

Jacob  ·  3515 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Elaborat'd