The Politics of Remembering Slavery: Kanye West & Sargon of Akkad

1,743 views · Published 19 May 2018 · 11:21 · Indexed 19 October 2026

Channel: à-bas-le-ciel · 2018 · News & Politics

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Sargon of Akkad states that black people have a problem because the history of slavery is something that "they just can't shake off", but this is built on the implicit premise that "shaking off history" would be a good thing (and what this really means is living in willing ignorance and calling it "liberation" from the past).

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