Definitions
Everyone gets the same resources no matter what circumstances
What is Equality
Yeah, yeah, this is guerilla (woo)
What is Guerilla vs. Gorilla
The dancing and riot is filmed on a bystander's cellphone
What is police officers who shot 22 year old Stephon Clark
Gambino is a black male individual which is considered a minority group
What is Intersectionality
A group of black teens watching and filming the chaos with their phones while having a white bandana over their mouths
What is the symbolism of white supremacist system attempting to muzzle police brutality
Unearned access to social power based on membership in a dominant social group
What is Privilege
This is America
Don't catch you slippin' up
Don't catch you slippin' up
Look what I'm whippin' up
What is Weapon Ownership
Gambino and a group of young boys and girls are dancing in the warehouse
What is a riot breaks out and a man takes his own life
Gambino conveys the inferiority of social groups
What is Hegemony
Gambino desperately running while being chased down by a mob of strangers
What is the Sunken Place from the film Get Out
Acknowledges that each individual may need different resources to reach an equal result
What is Equity
This is America (skrrt, skrrt, woo)
Don't catch you slippin' up (ayy)
Look at how I'm livin' now
Police be trippin' now (woo)
What is Corrupt Police
Gambino shoots a man; he carefully wraps the pistol in silk cloth while the corpse is dragged away
What is Guns vs. Bodies
It is clear that African Americans do not get equal access to resources that are available to other groups in society due to their race, status, etc.
What is Privilege
17 seconds of silence
What is the 17 people who lost their lives in the Parkland, Florida school shooting
Understanding the ways that multiple forms of inequality and disadvantages... create obstacles within conventional ways of thinking
What is Intersectionality
I'm so fitted (I'm so fitted, woo)
I'm on Gucci (I'm on Gucci)
I'm so pretty (yeah, yeah)
I'm gon' get it (ayy, I'm gon' get it)
What is Superficial, Consumerist Society
The pose Gambino adopts during the shooting
What is Jim Crow
Example: A white person gets a broken arm vs. a black person gets shot and both are sent to the hospital
What is Equality
Gambino's smirk at the camera
What is Minstrel Show Face
The indirect control of one country or people over another
What is Hegemony
You just a Black Man in this world
You just a barcode, ayy
You just a Black Man in this world
Drivin' expensive foreigns, ayy
What is Racism
Gambino shoots the entire gospel choir dead
What is the Mass Shooting in the Charleston Church, SC
Example: A school in a poorer neighborhood with minorities gets more funding than a private school in a wealthy neighborhood
What is Equity
White horse during the riot breakout
What is Revelation 6:8