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Brilliance Proper

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43, Elder Millennial. Writer, Hip-Hop, Music, Geek, Black Wrestle Sky Family #BWS, Beat Maker, Emcee, Video Essayist, Cereal Connoisseur. Pro-✊🏾 🏳️‍🌈 & 🏳️‍⚧️ brillianceproper.com "There's no upper tier, we're all peers unless y'all wanna be rivals."

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · Nov 21

"I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times."

-Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 1m

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2h

Vic Mensa, an American rapper born and raised in Chicago, breaks down ICE raids and the politics of division.

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🍉🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @pobrecheeto.bsky.social · 22m

“I don’t see color” was the most insidious thing to ever come out of the 90s

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 21m

Absolutely. And I think the prevalence of cable along with the ubiquity of MTV did something to their brains. The consensus is that we all listened to the same music but someone ended up on divergent paths and there's obvious reasons for that that they can't wrap their heads around.

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 47m

TRL was more millennial since it got big at the tail end of the 90s but it played a small part.

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SÓÓPACAAT @ruffandtuff.bsky.social · 1h

MTV was 100% selective culture. They did so much damage by convincing youth that selective acceptance of each other was normal while still redlining blk culture & pushing blk stereotypes.

Disgraceful.

Prince, MJ, Living Colour, Janet & HipHop broke the gates only because of audience demand.

Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 3h

Gonna do an essay about how MTV made white Gen X-ers think racism evaporated in the 90s.

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thedanib.bsky.social @thedanib.bsky.social · 1h

Im old enough to recall when MTV wouldnt play Black artists and David Bowie gathered their ass in a live interview.

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 1h

LISTEN!!!!!

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🎃 👑 ChuckFather^2🎃👑 @chuck2father.blacksky.app · 1h

Maaaaan we been talking about this topic since college. We saw a lot of that energy really come to the forefront in the “they elected a black man things can’t be as bad as it was”

As if white folks have any capacity to speak on how bad it ever was for a black man or woman at ANY time.

Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 3h

Gonna do an essay about how MTV made white Gen X-ers think racism evaporated in the 90s.

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 1h

He would do a WAY better job than I would. Let me actually see if he's written about this...

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orynthia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 3h

Black people can be Black and only Black.

The way that our full identities are dismissed is exhausting. You see it when people try to separate Black ppl from the LGBTQIA+ community. Or when it’s time to discuss ICE. Everyone understands intersectionality until it comes to us.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 2h

That, and I feel like having multicultural, multi gendered roommates on TV felt like not only the goal, but that conversations they had on the show meant the world was having them and that wasn't the case. It wasn't actionable, it was entertainment and entertainment is not praxis.

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 2h

😂😂😂 still too generous

Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 3h

Gonna do an essay about how MTV made white Gen X-ers think racism evaporated in the 90s.

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 2h

"I'ma do the best I can with what I got!" - Mariah Carey 😭😭

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 2h

Yeah, whenever I come down for a rap show it's filled with WAY more white faces than needed for Black artists.

Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 2h

Literally had this happen! It's going in the essay.

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Troynelious Q. @troyneliousq.bsky.social · 2h

Call someone out on their casual racism, and they'll tell you all about the Black music they listened to for exactly 4 years when they were a teenager.

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 2h

If anyone would know, it's you!

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Professor Mac @eagleeye1906.bsky.social · 2h

I love the fact that you can point to this moment for every generation. White folks WILL FIND a collective point to mobilize around as a way of not having to unpack anything regarding race and the systems around us

Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 3h

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 2h

As an 80s Gen X kid, I remember my teacher playing "Ebony & Ivory" in class. It was only two Black kids, I was one of them.

🗣Side-by-side on my piano, keyboard, oh, Lord, why can’t we?

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Dart Adams @dartadams.bsky.social · 2h

In 1995, they decided Rap had become so mainstream & popular they no longer needed “Yo! MTV Raps” during a Golden Era. This meant GZA, Redman & Method Man, Junior Mafia, Mobb Deep, Onyx, Fugees, etc. videos were played between Bjork, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, No Doubt, Silverchair & Oasis ones…

Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 3h

Gonna do an essay about how MTV made white Gen X-ers think racism evaporated in the 90s.

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Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 2h

Congratulations 🎉🎉