{"id":7396,"date":"2021-04-18T21:17:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2021-04-18T21:17:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:17:02","slug":"blog-post-for-4-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/04\/18\/blog-post-for-4-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post for 4\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Formation – <\/em>Music Video<\/p>\n

This music video really is a great example of Beyonce as the role model\/idol that she is. I couldn’t help but be fascinated the entire time about how beautiful and powerful she is as she moves. Her music video was only filled with African American actors which only added to the power\/strength of the video and with lyrics like “I might just be a black bill gates in the making” just further go on to empower the black community which has been silenced for decades. I was also interested with the scenes of Beyonce sitting on the New Orleans cop car surrounded by water which connects back to the Hurricane Katrina disaster in Louisiana. This was a situation where black neighborhoods were left to fight and fend for themselves as they were not provided the right\/enough resources before or after the hurricane unlike many white communities.<\/p>\n

This is America – <\/em>Music Video
\nI remember when this music video was first released and the conversation it sparked. The scene that stood out to me the most was where the choir was singing happily one second and then getting shot down the next. This is obviously very difficult to watch, but sadly is the case as countless African Americans are wrongly killed and then do not receive the necessary\/proper justice afterwards. But what further makes this scene and scenes similar to it stand out is the way that Childish Gambino dances freely afterwards which shows how these horrendous and wrong deaths of African Americans have been desensitized in society and particularly in the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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