Hidden Meanings Behind Childish Gambino's 'This Is America' Video

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eh's picture

The hidden meaning behind a black artist exploiting the attention given to a video showing hidden meanings behind racism for personal gain are hidden while at the same time unmistakable.

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Grothesk's picture

Some random, no name rapper talks about this exact same subject and you wouldn't really care nor perhaps even care about it.  If you had a microphone the size of Gambino's, would you say something that matters?  

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skeptoid's picture

Strange that the video hasn't been taken down for violating YouTube's terms of service and Community guidelines.

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phanto's picture

Anyone can see their own hidden meanings into this videoclip. 

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Niscimble's picture

These '(viral video) ANALYZED' type videos are just an easy way to ride on the coat tails of the successful and cash in.  It's unfortunate that they exist and do as well as they do, but sometimes they are actually pretty insightful.  This one is obviously clickbait, hence the stars and bars in the background.

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danmanjones's picture

Yeah it's a pretty shallow analysis & the Jim Crowe, Trayvonn's dad & black-face parts are dubious.

 

It says at the end he's trying to escape but there are people chasing him and he just smoked a joint... I don't think they're picking up on these details.... but trying to escape still could be true.

 

Glover isn't saying what it means. It's cool to see someone inject some creativity into the music industry. Doesn't happen often enough.

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