To Free the Captives by Tracy K. Smith

Author:Tracy K. Smith [Smith, Tracy K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2023-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

And:

The funniest part of the video is when he starts talking really fast and they cut him off. His face he looks like an adorable chipmunk.

Such responses highlight for me how thoroughly the generalized we of wider, whiter America has been habituated to positioning a speaker like Antoine Dodson not as a witness to be believed but as a figure to be acted upon—to be giggled at and then, in the remixing, laughed at ROFL-style. As someone to be sped up and cut off, to be reverse-anthropomorphized into a chipmunk, at which point he becomes adorable. I feel what is, again, the old scrutiny—one familiar from the age of minstrelsy and racial caricature. I have seen Antoine Dodson’s words transcribed like this:

He’s climbin’ in yo windows

he’s snatchin’ yo people up

tryna rape ’em so

y’all need to hide yo kids…

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