5/18/18 This Is America?

    This is probably the most interesting and controversial video to come out in a couple years.  It is from Childish Gambino, who sounds like an idiot, but it is Daniel Glover's stage persona.  Daniel has been on the screen for a couple years, notably on Community as a silly sidekick to an eccentric character, but it seems he may be the one with eccentric tendencies if he can keep doing videos like this one.  He also has a big role in the Han Solo movie fixing to come out, as young Lando Calrissien.
    Glover has been interviewed about what the video is about and he refused to break it down, choosing to say it's for the people.  Everyone is free to take what they will from it.  The video starts with a happy island guitar sing songy sound with a lot of high pitched children singing la la la la la la la.  Cut to Gambino's back and slowly turning to the camera snd starting to dance but with a weird twitch in his eye.  He dances up to the man happily playing the guitar but now his head is in a sack and Gambino pulls a gun from his waistband and blows the guys head off.  It is shocking, and the music changes to an ominous bass sound with Gambino chanting "This is America".  The part I noticed and kind of liked is that immediately, the gun gets gently placed in a cloth and gently caressed and taken from  the scene, no attention is paid to the victim.  There is then a group of kids dressed the same who follow the Gambino character as he is saying silly things like "I'm so pretty" "I'm so dope like that."  It takes watching a couple times to notice behind the happy kids dancing mayhem is in full effect in the background.  People committing suicide, riots, police chasing people, even the grim reaper on a white horse.
    He repeats the process, the second time with a church choir singing, he enters dancing and within a few seconds picks up a rifle and takes out the choir yelling "This is America".  Towards the end, he is dancing on a collection of cars which seems nice, but they are all older shittier cars.  I am not sure if the reference is that this is the top for a black man/society, white America's used shit.  But that's what I get.  In the last scene, Gambino is running, and appears to be chased by police.  It seems different from the other times in his youth, he just did what he wanted, now older and looking for peace, this is when the police and authorities notice you and attempt to take you down.
    Even if I am wrong, everyone should see the video, everyone seems to be talking about it.  He is not singing pro violence, but is putting the light to it.  Something has to be done to curb the senseless killings going on.