![]() ![]() ![]() Do you accept this deluge of attention and use it for what it’s worth, or do you turn down these opportunities that feel disingenuous? Sometimes, this choice feels like falling.” -Gioncarlo Valentine This photograph feels like a dialogue around a double consciousness, a mediation around the difficulty of choice between two outcomes. There can be no real revolution, no substantial change inside of institutions pretending that they want it, until white people in power relinquish it. We are treated as interchangeable, as if our work is not special. Inside, however, we are just waiting for this fad to come to an end and for the work to dry up, as has been the case across nearly all mediums when it comes to Black talent. Often, this scramble feels like progress to those outside of marginalized communities. Gioncarlo Valentine “Now that white editors, producers and agencies have discovered that Black people exist and that they are impossibly talented and brilliant, we are witnessing a scramble to inauthentically correct racist histories. ![]()
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