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That Feeling You Recognize? Obamacore.
The 2008 election sparked an outburst of brightness and positivity across pop culture. Now hindsight — and cringe — is setting in.
Your self-narrative about what you could achieve, all of that was potentially wrong.” This realization, she says, led directly to Power, the Starz crime drama about a drug dealer turned law-abiding business owner, which Kemp created in 2014 alongside 50 Cent and has since spawned four spinoffs. “Now, I hear people being like, ‘He was pretty bad on immigration and committed his share of drone strikes,’” says comedian Aparna Nancherla, who wrote on Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell and Late Night With Seth Meyers during this period. Just as often, the culture demonstrated a superficial, performative, or glib take on social issues — a white rapper’s Instagram apology for winning a Grammy, an all-female Ghostbusters remake, the idea that a Christmas song from the 1940s was secretly about rape.
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