Okay this rendition of Baba Yetu is pretty stirring but every time I think, Alex Boyé is a brave man to be surrounded by that many white guys and not run https://youtu.be/vsINANZ6Riw
@ljwrites its even funnier within the narrative of the music video — he’s just minding his own business, finds a religious article and then bam, crop circle of white men in suits
I mean I guess it’s technically less terrifying than biblical depictions of angels? But still firmly ‘be not afraid’ territory imo 😆
@Satsuma Oh wow they really are meant to be a depiction of a heavenly host, aren't they? 🤦♀️ I was like "where the hell did they all come from."
Yeah sending that many white dudes to suddenly appear in the middle of nowhere is a hell of a test of faith. I'd much prefer flaming wheels and six wings and such.
@twistylittlepassages @Satsuma yeah there were like 2-3 POC that were focused on for a few seconds, but they're almost all white and almost all male and... that's a genuine threat scenario as far as I'm concerned, especially when they're all converged on this lone Black guy lol.
reference to historical racist murders in US
@twistylittlepassages I was like, "It's nice to see an all-white choir back up a Black singer for once but I am so anxious 😬 " Also with @Satsuma 's interpretation that they're meant to be angels of the Lord sent to save/enlighten him I'm more like 🙃
@twistylittlepassages @ljwrites yeah it’s not great! I actually had to re-read that chart a couple times before I could interpret it — I’ve never seen Black/African American get lumped into “other” before
@Satsuma @twistylittlepassages It's actually worse than that--Black/African American is dead last on the list below "Unknown" and "Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander." I'm like, "are those the kids of every Black Mormon family and are they okay"
@Satsuma @twistylittlepassages Bahaha the video was just a statistically representative sample from BYU
@Satsuma @ljwrites there is so much 😬 here but the biggest one might be that every single person in the choir is white