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To be black at times like this is to see current events on a real-time ticker, a Dow Jones average measuring the quality of one’s citizenship. Trayvon Martin’s death is an American tragedy, but it will mainly be understood as an African-American one. That it occurred in a country that elected and reëlected a black president doesn’t diminish the despair this verdict inspires, it intensifies it. The fact that such a thing can happen at a moment of unparalleled political empowerment tells us that events like these are a hard, unchanging element of our landscape.vans otw hoodie This is the depressing takeaway from a verdict that will resonate with Americans — and divide them — for years. baja hoodies for toddlersBut I see a silver lining in the grey skies.lmg hoodies

My first hope is that people in states with Stand Your Ground laws will urge legislators to change these provisions empowering citizens to shoot first, ask questions later. My second hope, more quixotic still, is that Americans will come to see the mistake in the decision Chief Justice John Roberts wrote last month in the Voting Rights Act case. Here is the crux of the Court's justification for shredding this foundational piece of civil rights legislation:hoodie def shop But history did not end in 1965. kelebihan hoodieBy the time the Act was reauthorized in 2006, there had been 40 more years of it. gap hoodies prices in egyptIn assessing the “current need[]” for a preclearance system that treats States differently from one another today, that history cannot be ignored. gibbs rules hoodie

During that time, largely because of the Voting Rights Act, voting tests were abolished, disparities in voter registration and turnout due to race were erased, and African-Americans attained political office in record numbers. And yet the coverage formula that Congress reauthorized in 2006 ignores these developments, keeping the focus on decades-old data relevant to decades-old problems, rather than current datareflecting current needs. In sum, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, "in 50 years, things have changed dramatically." He reiterated the point several times: "Our Nation has changed," he insisted. When it comes to racism, "our nation has made great strides." In the wake of the spectacle of the George Zimmerman trial — in which a dead 17-year-old black boy was prosecuted more effectively than his shooter and in which six jurors were easily persuaded that pursuing and killing a black teen in a hoodie makes good sense — it appears America still has some distance to travel on the path to racial equality.

On Monday night Drake released the video for “Hotline Bling”—his maybe inspired, maybe remixed take on D.R.A.M.’s “Cha Cha.” As he has rather consistently done for the past few years, Drake delivered in the most deliberately viral and Drake-y way: like a huge dork. Only a handful of people across any medium have truly been able to make dorky things acceptably cool the way Drake has. It is therefore unsurprising that “Hotline Bling” is quite possibly his dorkiest video yet. In the video, Aubrey Drake Graham slow cha-chas in a puffy jacket, prancing around like your tipsy uncle at a family cookout. He’s unironically wearing a turtleneck sweater, bobbing his neck around and doing a bit too much with his hand gestures. If this was almost anyone else, we’d look at them like the dancing clown that they would so very much resemble. But, strangely, it works. Drake has buoyed his career by making corny things cool almost solely off of his unbridled enthusiasm and inability to accept that whatever it is he enjoys may not actually be particularly dope.

Consider that when we met Drake was a biracial, Canadian Jewish kid who was most famous for playing a tragically injured paraplegic on a teen soap opera. On his second mixtape, he posed on the cover—blue steel-esque—in a damn peacoat, on what looked like a New England college campus during leaf peeping season. For awhile, he seemed like Lil Wayne’s lame little brother who yeah, you liked enough, but sort of had to be friends with because you liked his older brother so much. As his popularity grew and his music improved, our perception of Drake shifted to some degree. By that time, Drake was “cool” in the way that all rappers are sorta cool, mostly because they try so hard to be.Drake’s coolness, however, is a much different brand than say, that of Jay Z, who may be the most effortlessly fly person on the planet. You could always tell that Drake was trying very, very hard and that he desperately wanted us to like the things he liked—even if those things were candelabras and gold-plated birds.

He ability to be forever meme-able lies precisely in the fact that he has tunnel vision about what he considers to be cool and good. Drake trusts himself, his talent and his palate enough to throw a song or a dumb motto out into the crowd and wait for us all to fall in line because yeah, when you give it a minute, it actually is pretty counterintuitively dope. In this way, he has always been conscious dork. A lot of dorks don’t necessarily realize how they’re perceived. Sure, they know they’re not cool, but it may not occur to them that people actively consider them to be lame. He has always known. This is the guy who put his mom in a music video. I mean, the man’s mascot is an owl for Christ’s sake. A damn owl—perhaps the most dweeb-like animal in nature. (My high school mascot was an owl. One of our cheers went: “Nocturnal birds of prey, hey!” With 808s & Heartbreak, Kanye West set the stage for rappers to emphatically discuss their feelings, but Drake perfected it.

He rapped about how he felt no matter how desperate and self-conscious the lyrics made him look. He openly thirsted after women who weren’t really returning the affection—at least as publicly. On “Charged Up,” Drake’s first diss track during his annihilation of Meek Mill, he rapped: “No woman ever had me star struck.” He was rightfully mocked on Twitter because Drake has literally never been remotely shy with his adoration for the women he loves. We have multiple songs that are quite obviously about his relationship with Rihanna and the last fifty seconds of Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” video are a textbook example of, you’re cool, but I don’t like you like that.Drake’s dorkiness works because he is always in on the joke. It’s OK for us to laugh and make fun of him because when it comes down to it, he’s laughing with us and we’re fans of the music. He’s sold over ten million albums, “Hotline Bling” currently has over 96 million plays on Spotify and it will likely hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.This works for Drake largely because he believes so strongly (at least ostensibly) in whatever he’s trying to sell us that eventually it doesn’t even seem uncool anymore and the next thing you know you have a self-proclaimed gangsta like The Game rapping about protecting “every nigga with an owl on his