It’s the fact that neither of them actually grew up in Jamaica but feel comfortable being in a video where Brown uses a homophobic slur in Jamaican creole.
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And the fact that the song itself did not “require” it. And the fact that this is going to go relatively unremarked. The gratuitous violence of it all.
Solidarity-building through fantasies of Jamaican homophobia, a hallmark of black diasporic fraternal anxieties. This makes me angrier than I can convey. 🙂