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Multimedia visual artist Phoebe Boswell has written an original piece, ‘Dear Mister Shakespeare', in which she questions Shakespeare on the inherent racial tensions within his writing of Othello in the 1600s, and how these tensions continue to resonate today.

The film, directed by Shola Amoo, is a collage of modern black British experience, and follows Othello’s (Ashley Thomas aka Bashy) journey as a 'man through time’.
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Transcript:
I, only told her my stories of the places I’ve been,

Of the trauma, the drama, the things that I’ve seen.

The Faraway, the exotic, it all seeped into her heart,

That’s the only voodoo I do, you can’t keep us apart.


Did you know, Mister Shakespeare, for no one is sure

When you decided to draw Othello as a Moor

That his blackness, his otherness, would always raise queries

About whether the play’s racist and other such theories

Pertaining to your own true thoughts as the writer, the drawer

Back in Elizabethan times, which of course was before all

These histories of trauma, inequality, migrations,

That have amplified difference, magnified segregations

Traded souls across borders, constructed black and white

As the slave and the master, the weak and the might.

So some say you couldn’t know when you drew your hero

Back in the 1600s.


But it wasn’t quite Ground Zero

‘Cause I read in the CliffsNotes that back then, England’s Queen

proclaimed her discontent at what she had seen

as a swarm of ‘negars and blackamoores’ who crept into the realm

to the annoyance of her people, so in taking the helm

against these aliens, ‘mostly infidels, consuming relief’,

She made this guy Caspar, who was a merchant,

the new ‘deportation’ chief.

So Mister Shakespeare, though the slave trade hadn’t yet turned hearts to stone

It could be argued that as humans we’ve always been prone

To attacking those weaker or darker or different

Or fearing the other or mocking their descent

In your own words, Mister Shakespeare, you pose black as the devil

And create characters who speak race at an astounding level

They describe Othello as ‘devil’, ‘lascivious moor’, ‘black ram’,

You evoke prejudice at every turn, and your hero is damned

By Brabantio’s accusations, there’s no way to hide his white child

In her snowflake-white purity could ever be beguiled

to seek ’the sooty bosom of such a thing’ as Othello

He claims witchcraft, or voodoo, black magic

- but hello

you then subvert the whole thing with the poise and the grace

That you give to Othello, he stares State straight in the face

and says I only told her the stories, of the places I’ve been,

of the trauma, the drama, the things that I’ve seen

The faraway, the exotic, it all seeped into her heart,

That’s the only voodoo that I do, you can’t keep us apart.

And it made me think a little of the art world’s view of the Other

As I am a brown female who is yet to discover

How to be in the mainstream of the art world’s white male tower

They like my stories, but from a distance, those great titans of power

Anyway, Mister Shakespeare…


James Earl Jones performed Othello’s speech about voodoo

to Barack at the White House, it’s on Youtube, and… you knew

so well back then how to write for The Other

How to give credence to difference and give words to a brother

So I can see why this role garners so much attention

it’s a role any black actor worth his salt hopes to mention

But wait, Mister Shakespeare, back in your day, there were no

black actors – or women – playing your treasured roles

Only white ones, Nicholas Burt, Edwin Forrest, Edmund Keen,

Ira Aldridge was black but some found that obscene

What is obscene to me is how recently blackface was banned in Othello

It’s a total disgrace

Let’s give thanks then to Paul Robeson who finally brought to the part

All the honour, the grandeur, the valour of heart

That you wrote into your art that has bewitched generations

With its twists and its nuance and its reverberations

It is the crossover of nations that makes Othello the most coveted role

For a black actor, because it comes from somewhere

way, way down deep in the migratory soul.


So, dear Mister Shakespeare, did you choose the dark charcoal for his, I quote, ‘sooty skin’

To make a point about race, and who can, who does, and who should fit in?
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I didn't see the tweet in the wild, so I don't have an archive, and I had to steal the screenshot for a BeanieTim video, but the founder of a DNC PAC tweeted to the effect that it's "okay for white people to be dragged from their cars and executed for trolling people." -
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Some pile of assholes that totally aren't trying to push CRT into schools have a website that looks suspiciously like it's advocating for pushign CRT into schools -
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Here's the methodology they used to come to the conclusion that E# "showcased violent games: -
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This fucking clown just cannot get it through his skull that shit like calling for "the abolition of whiteness" sounds very much like the sorts of commentary that has preceded every single genocide on record -
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Another uppity dune coon bitch trying to complain about "muh white supremacy", while conveniently ignoring that wherever she's from is a whole lot worse than any western country -
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I had sent the tweet to myself, but I wasn't able to archive it, and apparently no one else did, so best I could do was to screenshot what I sent to myself.

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Anyways, that's enough driving my blood pressure.
 
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Taylor Swift's Ghostwrite said:
Re: conspiracies

Theres a concept out there called threat construction. It's the idea that when the government wants to do shit it couldn't under normal circumstances it makes a threat happen to protect us from so they can then use it to justify limiting rights people would trip balls over in normal circumstances.

A lot of times this isn't them doing the threats themselves as much as allowing shit they knew was going to happen occur where they'd normally prevent it. I think in the case of Jan 6th the arrest of the Proud Boys leader on the 4th so he couldn't be associated with what happens is a big often neglected piece of the puzzle. He was an informant and they didn't want to lose him, meaning they knew what was coming but didn't act to stop it. Even if that was the only involvement (there's argument to be had there was more) that is enough to be a problem imo.

I also think they let BLM shit get out of control for the eventual ability to lockdown on protests in general.

Edit: The proud boy dude was also released on the 7th or 8th with no charges which is why I find it suspicious
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Occam's razor

There wasn't enough security allowing them to get into the building. Congress nearly shit themselves. Being some of the most powerful people in the government they use their power to it's full extent so they don't look like a bitch.
 
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atleast3letterslong said:
Occam's razor

There wasn't enough security allowing them to get into the building. Congress nearly shit themselves. Being some of the most powerful people in the government they use their power to it's full extent so they don't look like a bitch.
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This is an explanation of the day, but it doesn't look at what lead up to it. It was obvious if you were online something was going to happen on the 6th, yet they didn't set up the security with knowledge you could have gotten browsing online. Thats where the question is, why didn't they take steps with information they likely had, especially knowing they did lock up their pet informant?
 
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Taylor Swift's Ghostwrite said:
This is an explanation of the day, but it doesn't look at what lead up to it. It was obvious if you were online something was going to happen on the 6th, yet they didn't set up the security with knowledge you could have gotten browsing online. Thats where the question is, why didn't they take steps with information they likely had, especially knowing they did lock up their pet informant?
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Beyond just the "they literally organized it", didn't it come out months ago that the FBI was very blatantly warned about 1/6 before it occurred?

And Pelosi very specifically forbid any police preparation and response?

Almost like it was a FBI setup and she was in on it?
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
Can you imagine black people in a theater audience? They're already insufferable at movie theaters. Can you imagine them being able to scream at the actors and disrupt shit, or throw things at the stage? Or jump on stage and start twerking like fucking bonobos because clearly, what Shakespeare needed was some ugly ass sheboon bouncing her ass at people.
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Oddly enough, that would actually make it more authentic. The peasants in the standing audience (groundlings) were all about interrupting, booing, throwing stuff and fighting.
 
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