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Just a reminder that when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7, The Fate of the Furious, F9, Hobbes and Shaw
They said this back in 2016. That a spirit of resistance would move through us and that the political turmoil would become a pressure that turned us into diamonds. That we would gather in speakeasies and make masterworks that would save us. You know what actually happened?
NYPD is tiring. Listening to police scanners last night proved as much. Their frantic, exasperated voices showed that have the equipment, but not the stamina. If you're going out to demonstrate, keep from getting boxed in and dispersed. Make them get their cardio workout in.
Black art and black artists (and I guess you could extrapolate to nonwhite) became tokenized; the value of our artistic effort measured only by our capacity to mine our trauma or our willingness to soothe white art buyers and commissioners. Soon, it became the only paying work.