«This is
what systemic oppression looks like.»
Not exact matches
Jordan explained his motivation for the Killmonger character in an interview with Rolling Stone: «This young black man from Oakland, growing up in
systemic oppression, not having his mom and dad around, going to foster care, being a part of this system... I understood his rage, and how he could get to the point where he had to do
what he had to do, by any means necessary.»
Arthur Jafa: «Air Above Mountains, Unknown Pleasures» Opening: 6 — 8 p.m., Gavin Brown's enterprise, 439 West 127th Street
What you should know: Jafa's stunning and shocking 2017 video Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death is a celebration of blackness (or Blacknuss, as Jafa calls it, per composer and orator Rahsaan Roland Kirk) and a lament over its
systemic oppression, set to the gospel incantations of Kanye West's «Ultralight Beam.»
It's an opportunity to focus on
what the labour movement can do to continue to fight institutional and
systemic oppressions faced by workers of colour and Aboriginal workers.