Video: Two spoken-word artists call out hipster racism

by Miranda Nelson on Feb 19, 2013 at 4:34 pm
Kai Davis (left) and Safiya Washington.

In a powerful spoken word piece performed during Brave New Voices 2012, Kai Davis and Safiya Washington, members of the Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement, call out hipster racism—and it is glorious. (I dare you not to get chills.)

What do you think? Is the hipster lifestyle intrinsically racist?

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Mali
Feb 21, 2013 at 2:53 pm
This is pretty racist against everyone
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Miranda Nelson
Feb 21, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Really? Pray tell, HOW?
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