Antiblackness made Paris the birthplace of fashion and Japan the birthplace of streetwear. Let’s analyze this.
For starters, how racist do you have to be to assume a European city is the cultural epicenter for anything outside of suburbanization?
Then there’s Japan who is so content with its minority status within white supremacy that it is completely obsessed with consumer culture, where cotton is king, it doesn’t bat an eye at the exploitation of Black people and Black culture.
Not that African culture needs to be commodified any further but, from a strictly artistic standpoint, if you’re discussing fashion then Africa should be at the center of the conversation.
People in there twenties are too hopeful. In your thirties is where you will finally see enough. That’s where I am and I’m seeing just how persistent white imperialist capitalism is. It’s shocking to see white imperial capitalism blatantly play the same old games.
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The moral of the story is that if you have light (white) skin and mock Black culture then you can sell ANYTHING and ANY IDEA.
That’s it. That’s the thread! We get on this app and we try to think piece and we try to organize out of this shit but at the end of the day it’s quite simple. If you’re white and committed to Blackface then you can sell anything and any idea to thousands, maybe millions >>>
and you can have whatever you want. Complete power. But it's not power as much as it us pedophila. *FULL STOP* When you break it down (and it's not that hard)...you will find that a lot of this “power” is child abuse.
If you have an excerpt from your favorite radical or revolutionary on anything I touched on in this thread then please link it below. This was just me processing the reality of cyclical trends in consumerism and provides little to no evidence for what I say.
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