Childish Gambino captures the grim surrealism of being black in America | Mitchell S Jackson

In his provocative new video This is America, Donald Glover, performing as Childish Gambino, artfully uses the surreal to comment on black livesOnce upon a night in my black life, I bought a 9mm Glock 16 replete with an extended clip off the street, because I’d been robbed for the drugs I sold a time or two and decided against being a mark again, that the next dude that tried me would suffer bullets. Decades ago, that was my America. Decades later, it’s an America that still exists...

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