This is America | Where Feminism Fails

For those not living under a rock, Donald Glover’s aka Childish Gambino’s viral video “This is America” has entered your realm of awareness. Also known to many is that at the height of Glover’s buzz, Youtuber Nicole Arbour released a “female edit” version of the song to everyone’s disgust. In short, it was horrible. However, I don’t believe most people realize how symbolic this actual is. This is in fact, a recurring theme meant to be acknowledged and learned from. This is not the first time that feminist inspired stunts have attempted to steal the thunder from black activism and divert the attention toward feminist ideology and the plight of women instead.

Arbour apologized for piggybacking Glover’s work “too soon” as she puts it. But make no mistake, that wasn’t the problem nor would she have apologized if it was received well.  Her initial intention is still very discernible and very consistent with modern American history regarding the modern women’s liberation movement.

Firstly, Arbour has repeatedly shown an inability to understand the complexity of racial issues and has been known to tweet racially offensive statements against the black community. And Arbour fully intended to steal Glover’s thunder by riding his buzz and then injecting a feminist twist. But she failed. In other arenas, mostly literature and media, this gets done all the time, and has been since the 60’s. However, music and entertainment are slightly different; you can’t be so lacking on the vision and talent side which Arbour is badly. And so, she ruined something many revere as profound and artistic. She doesn’t have the same creative genius or depth. The original was over her head. She clearly didn’t get the picture or understand all the symbolic imagery going on in the background of the original. There was no need for a reboot or an addendum. She’s simple in the mind, goofy and not very talented or insightful. And so, she made a donkey of herself audaciously recreating something that was so carefully constructed with imagery. And then Arbour completely flipped the message away from the very relevant gun violence and black oppression toward the plight of women, date rape and public breast-feeding.

From Whence it Came

Feminism is one of the fastest growing socially engineered cults in the past decade. Have you heard anyone ask, “Do you know the definition of feminism?” Yep. Through the use of celebrities and all-powerful media, feminism has made a resurgence in recent years with many of our youth, both male and female, considering themselves feminists. Equality is a beautiful thing that subconsciously appeals to us all, and through that rhetoric many are duped into joining the ranks. Observant wiser people in our society however, understand that that isn’t why feminist groups are being helped and subsidized from above, and equality isn’t what is being produced. Of course, people will get mad, argue, and deny all of this, as that’s what propagandized people committed to ideologies do. But many of these people are simply the useful idiots who mean well, but never see the wizard behind the curtain or the puppeteer really pulling the strings of the groups and movements. Understanding a little history may make some things clearer.

In the 1960’s the Civil Rights movement had gained tremendous ground. Unbeknownst to most however, the powers that be never wanted black civil rights concerns solely front and center in the consciousness of society, or to gain any more traction. In fact, both President Nixon and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover covertly put many complex programs in motion to derail civil rights initiatives. And so, CIA operative Gloria Steinem who successfully fulfilled double-sided agendas, has done wonders for the birth of black feminism. It is a fact that Steinem, largely responsible for the resurgence of the women’s liberation movement has been working with the CIA since her teenage years. And through Steinem and her platforms, eventually came the rise of black feminism.

According to www.thewrongkindofgreen.org, the black feminist movement had been created and manipulated by the CIA. And so, attacks at black manhood while diverting attention away from civil rights for blacks toward societal concerns for women has never ceased. These Cointelpro programs are very complex and strategically kept from appearing overt.

Steinem and the agenda regarding black men first reared its head when she put a book on the cover of her magazine, Ms. Magazine, called “Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman”, written by propped up black feminist Michele Wallace. In the book Wallace disrespected Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth calling the icons “ugly” and stupid for supporting black men. The book blasphemously called revered black revolutionaries “macho chauvinist pigs” and encouraged black women to seek out their own independence. After some backlash, this black male hate keeps coming back strong, then scurries into hiding when enough people catch on, only to resurface in varying evolved forms adapted for the times powerfully to this day. A modern-day version of one of the latest evolutions can be seen in periodicals like The Root.  There is nothing new under the sun. The Root is currently being mocked and exposed for its anti-black male rhetoric, in which “black macho” propaganda has morphed into “toxic black masculinity”. Same programs, new spin.

The Same Thing Again and Again

In pop culture we kept getting signs of what this modern version of feminism fully intends to do in symbolic moments. I wrote a blog showing how when Nikki Minaj made a comment about the VMA’s shunning shapely women of color, feminist Taylor Swift leaped in to reaffirm solidarity with women and suggested maybe one of the men took her spot. She really tweeted that. Rightfully, twitter dragged her for it. Swift attempted another moment for feminism when she blatantly lied and tried to use Kanye West for a fake moment to empower women. She lied and claimed she knew nothing about a song Kanye made that featured her when in truth, he asked her permission before releasing it. Regardless, she played the victim and gave a speech infused with feminist rhetoric as she accepted her VMA award, but a recording Kim Kardashian leaked exposed her afterward. She was no victim, Kanye West was because of her conniving schemes to use him. So, fishing for a moment to shine as a feminist icon, she used lies and a black male to propel herself off of, and flopped.

Another vlog I made included Rhonda Rousey and her obsession with Floyd Mayweather. Rousey isn’t a feminist. However, I warned my subscribers that Rousey was covertly being put up to some of her antics by feminists. And so, as Floyd was nearing wrapping up an unblemished boxing career as a legend, she kept trolling Floyd and bringing up his domestic violence case against women. This was in very bad taste and very tacky considering even her own boyfriend had a history of domestic violence entanglements. The media ignored the hypocrisy and then another moment was orchestrated: The powers that be at ESPN gave her an award she didn’t deserve and beat out Floyd for “Best Athlete of the Year”.  It was all set up. Immediately after receiving the award she taunted him saying, “How does it feel being beaten by a woman for a change?” The media absolutely loved it and squealed in delight. Mayweather smartly played it cool and never responded. Then Rousey herself quickly learned how it felt to be beaten by a woman, getting kicked in the head by Holly Holm, and then pounded out into a dazed stupor by Amanda Nunez in a come back fight. Her career quickly came to a screeching halt as she was exposed as not the best athlete, but rather a media hype job and had to ride off into the sunset. The instant karma and poetic justice always comes for these agendas around the corner.

So, you see, black males and feminist agendas resulting in fails have a history that keeps symbolically rearing its head for people to finally learn from. Whether it’s rappers, athletes or fallen targeted moguls, black males always seem to be the primary focus to run agendas through or off of, and always seem to be target number 1.

So when Nicole Arbour took Childish Gambino’s song, tried to bottle the power and energy, and then spin over it into a moment for women, we were merely seeing a recurring stunt play itself out once again—to another fail. When this paradigm keeps playing out, the same defenses are made from friends of mine who identify as feminists, which is that the person in question does not represent real feminism or the collective. And yes, I believe and accept that Arbour may be more opportunist than feminist for sure. However, the instances in which that disclamainer has to be made keep piling up. And people like Arbour are either the real deal, or opportunists hired by or placating to an audience or movement they know exists. Combined with her Tomi Lahren-esque trolling, we see a pattern. The universe keeps putting that lesson out there before our eyes over and over again. Exposure and eventual failure is “third wave” feminism’s final destination as soon as enough people wake up and get the picture in its original and most authentic form. This is America.