No fucking words.

So, there is a short hallway in the Commons that leads into the Student Org Space, which is where we have the SGA Office and the Student Events Board Office.  The hallway walls were painted into chalkboards this year and this week, SEB finally chalked it to advertise upcoming events.

And guess what's there in one corner?

Tell ya wife
Tell ya children
Tell ya husband
They playing everybody

Are you for real?

So, we have a story about how a black woman was sexually assaulted in her own home, which becomes a story about how a black gay man said something in a funny way.  Where two white men take his words to turn it into a song.  How this became memetic is gross in itself.  The disproportionate sexual violence experienced by black women is erased enough, but to take it to the point where you're literally erasing "raping" and inserting another word to advertise campus events?

I am sitting in the Commons getting increasingly pissed off.

ETA: Here is a blog piece that goes deeper into how the appropriation and erasure occurs here.