Nappy Headed Black Child

So this is one of those moments where i let my self righteousness cloud my judgement and not make an accurate analysis in addition to not watching it all. Cuz frankly anything attached T-Pain im skeptical of *shrug*

part of the deal is that i didnt understand what freaknik was and as a result missed the point

Freaknik was a spring break party not unlike Daytona Beach, Miami, Panama Beach, South Beach and other places w/ water where its okay to walk around scantily clad. But Freaknik was attended primarily if not exclusively Black people. When Freaknik ended it was a result of political moves made by the white community and the black community. ATL didnt wanna be a spring break town (i guess the didnt want the money *sarcasm*)

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now with that in mind coming to Freaknik the musical i could understand it more as well as watch it all the way lol.

Freaknik broaches several different topics using current hip hop culture (however you feel about that) as a back drop. With the overall theme of love and how the black upper class often condemns and demonizes the actions thoughts and structures of the black lower class as though Blackness is or should be a monolithic whole. As exemplified thorough the Boule characterizations of Oprah, Al Sharpton, Bill Cosby, Russell Simmons, OJ Simpson, and Jesse Jackson.

The theme of Love is exemplified when the boule unleashes it robot ("the machine")to defeat the ghost of Freaknik after Obama hands the presidency to him (if you havent guessed Freaknik represents the "people") and is almost successful until the love from the crowd cause Freaknik to go Megazord and win the day. Showing that love in a collective sense is how we win and grow as a people as a nation and as a world.

I found it really interesting how Freaknik the Musical talked about the idea that white america AND the black elite hamper the black lower class is to me an very astute observation. Particularly seeing how Freaknik was our spring break celebration and the black elite was complicit in its killing instead of guiding it and supporting it and making it more productive.

My issues with Freaknik the Musical are largely cosmetic. It uses hip hop as a back drop and thus Freaknik the Musical has the misogyny materialism and drug induced stupors that come with it. And that for me is very much problematic, however Freaknik The Musical is a parody that uses hip hop and humor to convey some deep political and social messages.