Letter to the free
Context/Facts
Context:
Feature | Link |
Slaves clacking and clanging, tapping on wood in the intro | Chronotropic to the black Atlantic slave trade. |
“Slavery still alive check amendment 13” | Legal enslavement in prisons, arresting allows slave. |
Not whips and chains all subliminal | Racism through subliminal messages- eg media |
Black monolith | |
black and white colour palette, binary oppositions. | |
Prison setting | |
Black and white setting inverted in the final open frame | |
Directed for “13th” documentery explaining systems of racism | |
Fuses hip hop and gospel |
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Slavery’s still alive, check Amendment 13
Not whips and chains, all subliminal
We staring in the face of hate again
The same hate they say will make America great again
No consolation prize for the dehumanized