Mixed signals.
Im so in love with this look ima scream
My head, or as I like to call it, my suffering dome,
Sometimes I just wish I was a golden retriever in an upper class family.
Morrissey is selling a t-shirt with his lyric “black is how I feel on the inside” and a photo of James Baldwin
- British singer Morrissey is in hot water after selling merchandise at concerts featuring the face of writer James Baldwin, who is currently the subject of critically beloved documentary I Am Not Your Negro.
- Featuring Baldwin’s face is not the problem. On the shirt, hovering around Baldwin’s face like a racist halo, are the lyrics to the Smiths’ “Unloveable”: “I wear black on the outside ‘cause black is how I feel on the inside.” Yikes.
- People on Twitter were quick to point out the racism of using Baldwin’s image to promote a lyric that has nothing to do with blackness — and doing so to make a profit. Read more (3/17/17 11:40 AM)
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