Remember back in the day when films like Men In Black, The Lion King, The Bodyguard, and Purple Rain had great soundtracks, so much so that we looked forward to a film simply based upon the cultural relevance of the music? The fact that it maybe made us do a little jig?
My have times changed.
Well, this does still happen and it should be happening more, but in Hollywood (who has the resources to make these culturally relevant blockbusters) they continue to pay artists for doing subpar work instead of doing things that can matter in society. Films like The Sound of Music, and The Wizard of Oz once mattered in our society because they had inspiring and important themes that brought people to the theaters, wanting more. They even brought people together.
No more.
I'm not saying that this combination of Bryson Gray and Matt Walsh rises to this level of artistic significance, but culturally, they've put their finger upon an important subject to discuss.
Racism has only grown as a topic of concern in our country. And on both sides of the political aisle, we love to accuse the other of the same things. But, where is the truth to it all? We have lost these moorings on truth so severely that we don't even know that when we treat white males as harshly as the left treats them, we are committing to institutionalized racism on an enormous scale.
So, why are the left not abandoning this position? Well, when you accuse the other side of it first and when you just happen to have a bigger megaphone (Hollywood) you tend to get heard much more clearly. You might even make profits on selling your own version of racist hatred, by calling it virtuous.
So, these voices of reason who refuse to do this get smothered out and minimized even more. Well, let's be loud and clear about it. "They're going to call you racist," as Gray says (who is a black rapper), has become a ubiquitous statement, as it comes to so much political discourse today. But he is not just talking to those on the right, as people who are the hated side. He is also talking to the left, when he says, "...that means nobody is racist. Now it doesn't mean much when you say it..."
And he's right.
When we keep calling everyone we don't like racists, as the left seems to do, and when that person we call a racist happens to be branded that based upon our own racial standard ("all white people are racist"), for example, well, it actually makes us a racist, not them. And it makes everyone we call a racist likely NOT one.
It is the 180 degree table-turning moment where you realize the very person who's supposed to have some sort of moral superiority is the diametrical opposite. Instead, they are immoral and what they say has no credibility any longer.
And no, this isn't just in the states. In the entire western world, such as the UK, this is not just an issue, but is growing more prominent culturally.
As it comes to the song, the Post-Millenial says more about the song here.
Watch the music video for Matt Walsh's upcoming film, Bryson Gray's Am I Racist? right here.
Check out more of Bryson's work here.
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