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ChildishGambinoVEVO. (2018, May 6). Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Video) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY

genius. (2018, May 6). Childish Gambino- This is America. Genius. Retrieved January 31, 2025, from https://genius.com/Childish-gambino-this-is-america-lyrics

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Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Video)

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The irony in the song "This is America" is based on being a black man in America, man being used for humans. However it talks about the social injustice in an upbeat song to disguise the reality. In the song Childish Gambino sneaks in the topic of gun violence, "guns in my area, I got the strap, I gotta carry 'em".(genius, 2018) which shows the fear carried in black communities where gun violence is prevalent.

-Erin Brooks

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genius. (2018, May 6). Childish Gambino- This is America. Genius. Retrieved January 31, 2025, from https://genius.com/Childish-gambino-this-is-america-lyrics

Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. (2022, October 12). Discrimination against Black people in Canada. Statistics Canada. https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/1986-discrimination-against-black-people-canada

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Are we all equal from the start? The answer is simple: no. Due to various factors, not all members of society are treated equally, and current events remind us every day of the discrimination certain groups of citizens face all around the world.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ( Canada Act 1982) states that every individual, regardless of their race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability, is equal in the eyes of the law. Nevertheless, people living in Canada are not always treated equally.
Race, ethnicity and hate-related incidents
In any society, difference is a source of collective enrichment. Unfortunately, it also breeds hate. According to the results of the 2019 General Social Survey (GSS) on Canadians' Safet y, more than half (54%) of respondents who reported having been victims of hate-related incidents said those incidents were related to their race or ethnic origin. Other reasons commonly perceived as the root of hate-related incidents included language (32%), sex (24%), disability (23%), and religion (19%).
Black people and discrimination in everyday life
According to the 2019 GSS, nearly half (46%) of Black people aged 15 years and older reported experiencing at least one form of discrimination in the five years preceding the survey compared with 16% of the non-Indigenous, non-racialized population.

For the GSS, respondents who experienced discrimination also reported the situations in which the discrimination occurred, for example, at a store, bank, or restaurant; while attending school or classes; at work; when dealing with police; when dealing with the courts; when crossing the border into Canada, or in any other situation.

Of the 46% of Black people, 51% experienced discrimination more often in a store, bank, or restaurant than non-Indigenous, non-racialized people (28%). The same was true when dealing with police, where the proportion of Black people who reported discrimination was four times higher (16%) than among non-Indigenous, non-racialized people (4%).
Women versus men
Nearly half (49%) of Black women had experienced discrimination or unfair treatment in the five years prior to the survey, as did 4 out of 10 Black men (42%). In contrast, 20% of women and 13% of men who were not Indigenous nor racialized experienced discrimination.
Discrimination and age
Among the relatively younger population, discrimination was more frequent. More than half (53%) of Black people aged 15 to 44 years had been victims of discrimination in the five years preceding the survey, compared with about one-third (31%) of Black people aged 45 years and older.
Serious problems or disputes
Do you have a problem with your job? People owe you money? Are you having trouble with your immigration application? These are just a few examples of situations where Black people were more likely to experience serious problems or disputes. According to data from the Canadian Legal Problems Survey, more than one-quarter (26%) of Black adults had experienced at least one serious problem from 2019 to 2021, a higher proportion than that of people belonging to another racialized group (19%) or non-Indigenous, non-racialized people (17%).

Regardless of the population group, just under 9 in 10 of those who experienced a serious problem took some sort of action to resolve it. Among Black people, 86% reported taking action, such as searching the Internet (44%), obtaining advice from a friend (50%) or contacting a legal professional (28%) to find a solution.

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Discrimination against Black people in Canada

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According to the results of the 2019 General Social Survey (GSS) on Canadians' Safety, nearly half (46%) of Black people aged 15 years and older reported experiencing at least one form of discrimination in the five years preceding the survey compared with 16% of the non-Indigenous, non-racialized population.

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The figurative language used in the song is euphemism and symbolism. The song overall is the euphemism because it uses upbeat instrumentals to talk about the problem in the country. The symbolism is "not slippn' up" due to the country being run by worker bees, which he is stating this from the point of view of someone with lots of power.

-Erin Brooks

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This Is America by Childish Gambino is about the problems in American society, especially racism, gun violence, and how people get distracted by entertainment.One big theme is gun violence in the video, people are shot, but the guns are carefully handled, showing how America values weapons more than our lives. Another theme is media distraction while chaos happens in the background, Gambino and the dancers stay focused on performing, representing how society pays more attention to entertainment than real issues.

-Chyanne Wallace

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In the song "This is America" by Childish Gambino the audience is everyone in America white, black, Asians, young people, older adults, and whoever else wants to really pay attention and listen. Guns and senseless violence play a big part in what's going on in America. Not only do we have police killing our black men we also have mass shootings in schools, grocery stores, churches and many more places. In the end Gambino wanted everyone in America to be more inform by creating these knowledgeable lyrics and a high beat video that everyone would pay attention to.

-Dajia G