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gambino sure is making a strong case
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 5
things you missed in Childish Gambino’s
this is America video before we begin we
publish new content every day so be sure
to subscribe to our channel and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’re ranking the
most noteworthy intriguing and
controversial content and there’s a lot
of it in the latest music video from
childish gambino also known as artistic
polymath donald glover number 5 the
sunken place we’re actually starting our
list at the end of the video here our
final image is full of fear and terror
as Glover is running away from what
appears to be an angry mob of white
people the background is dark almost
pitch-black and could very well be
interpreted as an homage to director
Jordan peels Academy award-winning
horror comedy get out Gambino’s song
redbone was featured on the soundtrack
so this seems like a safe bet
the harrowing imagery could be
referencing the film’s concept of the
sunken place the antithesis of being
woke where a marginalized population
feels helpless against a surrounding
atmosphere of violence number four
Bible references this is America as a
music video that demands to be viewed
multiple times as there are many images
that appear briefly and in the
background behind Glover and his dancers
one such image is that of a white horse
just opposed with a cop car this could
be referencing the famous Bible verse
from the Book of Revelations it
describes in part quote a pale horse and
the name that sat on him was death and
hell followed with him
this combination of apocalyptic imagery
with the growing news coverage of police
brutality against the black community
could certainly be seen as very
intentional social commentary number
three
Jim Crow put into place after the Civil
War Jim Crow was a system of racist
local and state laws whose existence was
designed to enforce segregation and
oppression in the southern United States
some of Childish Gambino’s movements and
poses in that this’s america video
seemed to deliberately mimic those seen
in vintage Jim Crow posters this can be
seen specifically during the videos
opening scene when Gambino shoots a man
glover slash Gambino’s dance moves in
the video could also be seen as
referencing the era of repugnant
blackface minstrelsy entertainment
popular during the long reign of Jim
Crow number two the anti-gun message you
certainly aren’t gonna miss seeing guns
in this video we’ve mentioned the
opening execution but later on in the
clip Glover also mows down a choir of
gospel singers but this is far from a
typical violent gangsta fantasy in each
of these sequences guns are treated in a
much more reverent fashion than the
bodies of those slain this seems to
clearly be referencing the growing
desperate unrest in America with regards
to gun control gun violence and the
state of mental healthcare the image of
Glover using a high-powered rifle could
be a direct reference to the Charleston
Church shooting of 2015 and will also be
referencing how terror threats seem to
be the new normal number one the
significance of dancing there’s a lot of
dancing in this video with a shirtless
and muscled Gambino and kids busting
African inspired moves and viral dance
crazes alike
but why well the previously mentioned
blackface vaudeville acts involved
exaggerated styles of dance which
childish gambino appears to reference
with mimicking moves his facial
expressions switch between a smiling
entertainers visit and an expressive
look of outrage who ever seems to be
contrasting the financial and cultural
primacy of black entertainment in white
America to the indifference of the same
society to the gun driven violence that
disproportionately plagues black
citizens
it’s simultaneously highly entertaining
and deeply disturbing to watch
seems to be the point do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from watch mojo and subscribe for
new videos every day [Music]
gambino sure is making a strong case
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 5
things you missed in Childish Gambino’s
this is America video before we begin we
publish new content every day so be sure
to subscribe to our channel and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’re ranking the
most noteworthy intriguing and
controversial content and there’s a lot
of it in the latest music video from
childish gambino also known as artistic
polymath donald glover number 5 the
sunken place we’re actually starting our
list at the end of the video here our
final image is full of fear and terror
as Glover is running away from what
appears to be an angry mob of white
people the background is dark almost
pitch-black and could very well be
interpreted as an homage to director
Jordan peels Academy award-winning
horror comedy get out Gambino’s song
redbone was featured on the soundtrack
so this seems like a safe bet
the harrowing imagery could be
referencing the film’s concept of the
sunken place the antithesis of being
woke where a marginalized population
feels helpless against a surrounding
atmosphere of violence number four
Bible references this is America as a
music video that demands to be viewed
multiple times as there are many images
that appear briefly and in the
background behind Glover and his dancers
one such image is that of a white horse
just opposed with a cop car this could
be referencing the famous Bible verse
from the Book of Revelations it
describes in part quote a pale horse and
the name that sat on him was death and
hell followed with him
this combination of apocalyptic imagery
with the growing news coverage of police
brutality against the black community
could certainly be seen as very
intentional social commentary number
three
Jim Crow put into place after the Civil
War Jim Crow was a system of racist
local and state laws whose existence was
designed to enforce segregation and
oppression in the southern United States
some of Childish Gambino’s movements and
poses in that this’s america video
seemed to deliberately mimic those seen
in vintage Jim Crow posters this can be
seen specifically during the videos
opening scene when Gambino shoots a man
glover slash Gambino’s dance moves in
the video could also be seen as
referencing the era of repugnant
blackface minstrelsy entertainment
popular during the long reign of Jim
Crow number two the anti-gun message you
certainly aren’t gonna miss seeing guns
in this video we’ve mentioned the
opening execution but later on in the
clip Glover also mows down a choir of
gospel singers but this is far from a
typical violent gangsta fantasy in each
of these sequences guns are treated in a
much more reverent fashion than the
bodies of those slain this seems to
clearly be referencing the growing
desperate unrest in America with regards
to gun control gun violence and the
state of mental healthcare the image of
Glover using a high-powered rifle could
be a direct reference to the Charleston
Church shooting of 2015 and will also be
referencing how terror threats seem to
be the new normal number one the
significance of dancing there’s a lot of
dancing in this video with a shirtless
and muscled Gambino and kids busting
African inspired moves and viral dance
crazes alike
but why well the previously mentioned
blackface vaudeville acts involved
exaggerated styles of dance which
childish gambino appears to reference
with mimicking moves his facial
expressions switch between a smiling
entertainers visit and an expressive
look of outrage who ever seems to be
contrasting the financial and cultural
primacy of black entertainment in white
America to the indifference of the same
society to the gun driven violence that
disproportionately plagues black
citizens
it’s simultaneously highly entertaining
and deeply disturbing to watch
seems to be the point do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from watch mojo and subscribe for
new videos every day [Music]
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