Much of the cultural conversation in the wake of the Charleston shooting is over the removal of the Confederate flag—a symbol that’s been reappropriated by black rappers.
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Rappers have a long history of endorsing the Confederate ...
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there's whole articles written about it, but the authors just dance around the subject, list 'only facts' like a square, and barely address the political ramifications or original intent directly
basically the premise is, the white man created the n-word but nowadays, only black people are allowed to use that with each other
using that same logic, if rappers start adopting the confederate flag as their own, the white man would slowly realize the flag is being 're-appropriated' to mean something else from the original intent and they would back off, but it's just a can of worms at that point because then rappers would have to start sampling confederate songs like 'dixie's land' and 're-appropriating' everything else that is part of klan/neo-nazi material, but the new ideology is to just take down confederate monuments instead of appropriate them...it was a trend for a while to even start this conversation but idk where it went
even the weeknd has the confederate flag in the background of his music video, but he's canadian so idk if the same ideology applies to him, if the confederate flag is even that big in canada, or if he just did it for aesthetic/shock value
running around singing this as a little kid