This is America

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This is America

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THIS IS AMERICA

- What do you notice about the transition?

- What happens to the gun?

- Amerikaanse wapenwet: het wapen (voorzichtig afgevoerd) is belangrijker dan het leven (weggesleept).

- Houding: Jim Crow

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Jim Crow-laws

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What does the choir sing?

Why would they sing this?

Charleston church shooting 2017

What happens to the gun?

- Het koor zingt: "Get your money" / kritiek op geldbeluste kerken.

- Massa schietpartijen: Charleston Church shooting - hate crime.

- More respect for the gun (laws) than human life

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Tell students to also pay attention to what happens in the background

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What is going on in the background?

Distractions?

"This is a celly; that's a tool!"

'celly' ? 

- Dansen op de voorgrond, rellen op de achtergrond.

Entertainment is belangrijker dan / leidt af van de echte problemen. Geweld gaat viral / wordt verheerlijkt.

- Celly can be a cellphone, how everything is recorded. It can also be a prison cell. How social media can feel like a prison. 

- It is also a reference to a shooting where a boy was killed because the police thought his celphone was a gun ('a tool')

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White horse -> biblical reference

Revelations 6:8

 "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and the name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."

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What could be the critic on making the 'gun sign'?

What is 'hunnid bands' and 'contraband'? 

What is Oaxaca?

- People casualy making the 'gun sign' or pulling a gun, also in rap songs (entertainment) -> Normalising gun use,

'hunnid bands'= $100.000, contraband = illegal weapons or drugs

Oaxaca = Mexican drug cartel

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17 seconden stilte: 

17 doden bij aanslag Stoneman Douglas High in Florida.

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-> 40 acres & a mule

"America, I just checked my following list, and you tell somebody, you *** owe me"

This is a reference to the former slaves who, when slavery was abolished, were all promised 40 acres of land a mule. They never got it. 

Background: Kendrick Lamar also referenced to 40 acres and a mule during his superbowl performance.

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"Go get your money black man" 

Empty (American) cars, old models... 

No progress.. 

"Go get your money black man" -> be quiet and just take your wages (money)

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Scene film 'get out'

- Lyrics in the background "you just a black man in this world, you just a barcode"

Themes?

Metaphores?