The rant video uses nigga behavior to call out niggaz. Covers of their nigger rant are shown below. Political incorrectness became transgressive chic and the nigger head grinned with tongue in cheek.Īnd will continue as long as there is a nigger in consciousness to exorcise.Īnd continue as long as nigga profiteers like Sony and Universal Music corporations through lyricists and performers like Noel Fisher, Nicki Minaj, Kemion Cooks and Maurice Brown make bank. The white art establishment could then slip out from the strictures of multicultural etiquette. Their "positive black images," beginning in the 1960s, were the antidote.Ĭontemporary African American artists could signify all dey want, including to make negative black images the antidote to the "positive black imagery" stranglehold. When the black arts leaders were born, the bug eye, burr head nigga was still popping up in society and boring holes like swiss cheese into their psyches.
The most immediate artistic tradition that these artists were evolving beyond was the "positive black imagery" mandate of the black arts movement. (“Extreme Times Call for Extreme Heroes,” IRAAA, v. In the work of these sublime artists, the black object has become the black subject in a profound act of artistic exorcism. In drawing upon this peculiarly American repertoire of debased, racist images - the artists are seeking to liberate both the tradition of the representation of the black in popular and high art forms and to liberate our people from residual, debilitating effects that the proliferation of those images undoubtedly has had upon the collective unconscious of the African American people and indeed upon our artists themselves and their modes of representation.įor artistic tradition to evolve beyond realism to the meta-level of self-consciousness, political and formalistic commentary is a sign of sophistication, self-confidence, self-awareness and control. told IRAAA that the artists dealing with this subject were performing "a profound act of artistic of exorcism":
NIGGA YOU GAY MEME ORIGIN SERIES
Most African American artists create nigger imagery as a form of satire or protest - for example, painter Robert Colescott’s coon caricatures, Camille Billops’ "Minstrel" series bead artist Joyce Scott's "Nanny Now and Nigger Later" series and Nigger Lips neckace and Michael Ray Charles’ and Kara Walker’s career body of work.Ĭommenting on the nigger in the psyche shufflin' down to the nigger in African American visual art in the mid-to-late 1990s, cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The sarcastic head in African American visual art.Īfrican American visual artists have probed a “nigger” concept burrowed so deep in the American collective consciousness that it may never be completely expunged unless we become a totally racially amalgamated people - obliterate every trace of "otherness." The paradoxical head in pop culture rap music, in particular. The grotesque head, most notably, recently, on the University of Oklahoma frat bus. If So, The Nigger Will Never Die Juliette Harris with rant by Hermine Pinsonĭespite the advancement of colored people, the nigger continues to rear its three (or more) heads: May they forever reign.The Nigger Head Deep In All Of Our Heads The Exorcism May Never Be Completed. Be it politics, Taylor Swift, or cake, the memes of 2020 have been a comfort in dark times. They also have gotten really freaking weird this year. Among this year's slate of greatest hits? A resurgence of Glee memes, the existential dread of pandemic life, and one very stoned dude who made us remember how much we love Fleetwood Mac.įrom serious news stories to frivolous celebrity drama, memes have given our daily assault of reality some much-needed moments of levity. But in these post-ironic times, the way we find solace and humor in the madness is to hit the World Wide Web, take a piece of pop culture, and turn it into a new hieroglyphic of internet language. That description makes the year sound bleak, and make no mistake, it was. In time, I like to imagine that historians will stumble across the digital archaeology field called the internet and find the images, gifs, and inside jokes that we used to communicate and deduce something about the batshit mental state we were all in while (1) time seemed to become a loose concept, (2) a pandemic ravaged the world, and (3) an autocrat flubbed an election and fell ultimately out of power. There truly is no better way to gauge how twisted our 2020 brains are than to look at the memes we've used to define our year.