Do you understand now the absolute moral bankruptcy and political impotence of this party?

They have no moral standards and they have no political resolve or political courage. ... Subversive is the language that you use to describe, the way that the Kendrick performance has been characterized by some.

I think that if you choose the term subversive, then there's an argument that can be made that a lot of the visual representation and the cultural references and so forth are subversive.

You could make the argument that performing it in that venue in front of Donald Trump on that stage is subversive.

But the question that I ask my students, and I'm teaching this hip-hop history class, is it revolutionary?

Because in the show, he said the revolution will be televised.

You pick the right time, but you pick the wrong guy. That's making a

claim that this is a revolutionary intervention. So I actually asked my class, they've been hearing for me for

five weeks. So they're likely to kind of understand where I might sit. But I asked them,

is this a revolutionary performance? And about a third said yes. A third said, I don't know.

And a third said no. And then we

had a conversation where we unpacked it. Like, what would it take to be revolutionary in that

moment? Last week, they watched Fight the Power, the original full-length video by Public Enemy from

1989, which was filmed during a march against police violence in Brooklyn with thousands of

black folks and public enemies introduction to that video, to that Fight the Power video,

was two minutes from a documentary about the 1963 march on Washington. And then Chuck Deast came in

and said, that's nonsense. We're done with all of that.

We're done with all that marching.

We're done with that nonviolence.

And they came in with the S1Ws, right?

Fruit of Islam, Nation of Islam dancers and military formation, looking militant and jet black

army fatigues.

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