What I’m about to say hit me an hour ago. I was walking down a supermarket aisle when it slapped me down…whoa! And it’s this: among wokeys and progressive POCs, Sinners has become a kind of metaphorical battering ram against Trumpism.
Ever since Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris last November and the rightward shifting of political plates became evident in every corner and precinct, progressives and traditional liberals had been hunkering down…stunned, wind knocked out, state of shock…but now the younger progressives have this anti-white, anti-yokel, “feel that Delta blues joy” Sinners fantasy, and suddenly the fire in the belly has returned. No more fetal-tuck defeatism!
It’s become clear over the last several days that Sinners is something more than just a film…it’s been latched onto, I’m sensing, as a pushback totem…in the space of two weeks it’s become a thing to glom onto and hold high like some kind of cultural banner or community anthem…
For under-40 wokeys and especially younger POCs the anti-white Sinners narrative (evil Irish vampires, white yokel Klan members getting machine-gunned to death, the whole Mississippi Burning thing) has revitalized the argument against Trumpism…Sinners has become a miltant cultural cause…a shove against the Trump cultural turnover that began six months ago, and really kicked in after the January 20th inauguration.
Democrats have been pipsqueaking since Harris lost to Trump last November….gutted, powerless…while that feeling of assertive, progressive power that POCs have been proudly brandishing since the six-year-old 1619 Project, all the institutional DEI initiatives and the great awokening of 2020, not to mention the general progressive program (drag queens in elementary schools, the demonizing of white culture, the LGBTQ movement, the transy men-competing-in-women’s-sports thing, Lily Gladstone‘s 2023 and ’24 identity campaign for Best Actress)…
All of a sudden the woke shit began slowing if not screeching to a halt when Trump won a majority of voters, some of this having been strengthened by support from younger white dudes and a sizable percentage of POCs and Latinos.
Like it or not, the general post-election consensus across the country became widely understood as “we’re sick of this crazy woke DEI transy stuff and so fuck Biden” (and don’t tell me it was just the border and the economy…bullshit!)…
Right after Harris’s loss James Carville went off on Democrats, barking “enough with identity politics shit”…Rahm Emanuel and Gavin Newsom have been saying the same thing, warning that if lefties don’t get off this fucking train Democrats may become a permanent minority party…progressive donor advisor and Obama administration veteran Seth London called last November for “a return to a politics centered on delivering the American dream through a politics by simple concrete action “rather than race and group-based identity politics.”
The ideological “party” was therefore suddenly over for identity fanatics and they knew it, but now Sinners has re-filled their progressive sails. It’s obviously not a 21st Century political film, but it’s certainly a cultural thing. You can feel the lit-up energy behind it. Thank you, Ryan Coogler, for re-lighting our fire! AOC for President in ’28!
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@sdotrich Ryan, I peeped game. I picked up what you was putting down. When Smoke said Stack don’t watch his back…️️MESSAGE. Cause some of us will get swept up by a clear TOO quick. And too many of us love when they can halfway sing and/or dance. #Sinners #SinnersMovie #RyanCoogler #MichealBJordan ♬ original sound – sdotrich
@awakenwithtara It’s deeper than hate. It’s a system. And it’s still active. Watch my last video on this topic #racism #BlackTikTok #unity #power #hiddenracism #blackwomen #blackmen #awareness #fyp #payattention ♬ original sound – Tara Jená (Jah-Nae)
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@orwell_fangirl Yes you should go see Sinners! It’s brilliant. Vampires, the blues, good stuff. #sinners #michaelbjordan ♬ original sound – Sasha Stone
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