


"It's fun to see how people have taken to it, the interpretations," said Larkin Seiple, the video's cinematographer. Consider Glover's dancing, presumably choreographed to mimic a minstrel character the murder of choir singers, evoking the Charleston church massacre and death riding in on a white horse. Donald Glover didn't hold back when creating the music video for "This Is America," the most recent single by his rapper alter-ego, Childish Gambino.Īs its name suggests, the video is emblematic of its time - blatantly political in a way that appeals to social media and its love of dissectable visuals.
