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Speaking to the idea of the explosion of hiphop, and the global export of that in, and what does its mean for those particular images for, like, not necessarily mos defs hiphop but images projected to the world. How are we wrestling with the truth of the artist expression but also recognizing that the truth is often sometimes born of a form of oppression and stereotyping and flat flattening of identities. How can we reconcile those things at opposite and thats a very at once and thats duck difficult to do to respect ones truth and know that its influenced by thing you may not want to be part of. I think that the tension of that hyper visibility and visibility the stall american question because the central mesh questions because of the necessity that blah blackness is to the american identity. In order for the United States to operate the way it does, it needs a bottom, right and its a system of hierarchy, and the capitalism is that, right . The needs and exploitative which is, and blackness White Supremacy renders blackness that bottom class, and at consistent all, you have that bottom class, that blackness is always there. And we create new racialized groups to exploit and demonize. We have latinos and muslims and ethnic groups now considered white were also part of that, like italians and irish, germns, were all exploited classes of people, but their escape was the fact whiteness needed to reproduce itself, to form strongholds, political and economic so that to be embraced interest that fold, to ensure that blackness is always the bottom. So, theres a need then to flatten those identities and to demonize to make invisible blackness, the humanity of black people, so the minimum central show minstrel shows. Post cards that depicts black men being lynched, eating watermelon and exaggerated features and calling us lazy. All of these Different Things their work of insuring that the humanity of black people is remains invisible and we also need to be seen in terms terms like during slavery, owning one of us was status symbol, and then having us be domestics and servants was a measure of ones worth within society. So theres always that tension of the actual act of being seen but also being having your humanity co need and that what in the con receive of invisibility is trying to get at

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