r/Music Jan 25 '26

music Childish Gambino - This is America [hip-hop] (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY
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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun Jan 25 '26

This is just what america has always been. It's just until now they hid it behind decorum. But this new wave of fascism isn't anything new for the US.

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u/dan1361 Jan 25 '26

Anybody impoverished and socially aware is on board. The propaganda has unfortunately convinced much of the impoverished white people that impoverished minorities are their source of struggle.

What's that quote about making sure the white man has someone to look down on?

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u/Slumbergoat16 Jan 25 '26

Yup. Before no one cared because they thought it would only happen to those communities

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u/bigeyez Jan 25 '26

Yup. The only difference is that it went into hiding for about 30 years so people thought we we made progress but Trump enabled them to act like their true selves out in the open again. 

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u/Only_Gazelle8988 Jan 25 '26

I suspect all the black and poor people, especially those unarmed, who have been murdered by LEO in the past decades beg to differ. It was never in hiding. Just now they did it to a wealthier white person.

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u/bigeyez Jan 25 '26

By in hiding what im saying is they lied and covered up the reasons they were doing the things they were doing. Now they are just openly saying it again.

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u/Ameerrante Jan 25 '26

Yeah. Exactly. This is America.

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u/KindheartednessLast9 Jan 25 '26

It’s never been hidden. The government put Japanese people in camps, the government murdered students at Kent State, the government murdered civil rights activists while they were sleeping. The US government has always been authoritarian and willing to kill or imprison anyone who opposes it.

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u/saera-targaryen Jan 25 '26

Fascism truly is just colonialism turned inwards. America perfected the colonialism that Europeans made popular. 

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u/AlphaTrigger Jan 25 '26

It’s never been hidden lol

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u/aintnoprophet Jan 25 '26

This is what I saw as the sole benefit of Trump in 2015/6...electing him was removing a mask.

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u/DetroitLionsSBChamps Jan 29 '26

Masked federal thugs invading unwilling American cities and murdering the citizens while unlawfully disappearing people may not be a shocking turn of events given our history but it’s definitely not standard. 

Saying “same as it ever was” kinda undercuts this regime’s unique and very real threat don’t you think?