>With all the compassion in my heart, I just want to say to white people sampling others' music: what you're engaging in is colonialism. Name it for what it is.
Tune-Yards
Liam Adams
Oliver Wood
>Ever the student, the Smith-educated Garbus, who writes most of Tune-Yards' lyrics, designed an anti-racist curriculum for herself. She attended a six-month anti-racist workshop at the East Bay Meditation Center. She read the work of noted anti-racist educator Tim Wise and explored the activism of Standing Up for Racial Justice, a nationwide, progressive activism network dedicated to "moving white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority." Seeking new musical communities, she learned to DJ. Well aware that her sincerity would seem to some the epitome of white liberal sanctimoniousness, she sat with the discomfort that realization brought, along with many other vexed emotions. And she and Brenner made music, working with a small handful of collaborators to focus and complicate their excited, beat-driven arrangements, building glass houses of sound to better illuminate Garbus's confrontations with her own internalized secrets and lies.
Camden Brown
dubs decide where I drink tonight
Cameron Thompson
she literally brainwashed herself
Caleb Torres
This is really, really unfortunate. To put in all of that effort, to spend all of that time and still make shit music.
Colton Gonzalez
Strip Club
Leo Diaz
in front of your parents
Brayden Gutierrez
>black hip-hop artists sample whites
>not a peep
>white rock artists sample blacks
>"You're a colonialist"
Never mind that this has absolutely nothing to do with colonialism as an act. Colonialism is taking over land, exerting your culture onto others, and wiping a culture out entirely, little by little. What Merrill is commenting on is white people utilising an aspect of black culture and using it to shape their own. In a very fundamental, important way this is the opposite of colonialism.
Grayson Sanders
Who said this? The girl from Tune-Yards? She makes all of her fucking music doing that
Xavier Stewart
yeah but haven't you heard? she's woke now