Update: After facing backlash for his tweets on race, Bundick deleted the tweet the caused the most ire, about mixed race individuals having a “better view of the world” and uploaded an apology saying “my comments lacked the nuance that this complex issue deserves.”
https://twitter.com/ToroyMoi/status/838958593739128832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Original story below.
It seems to be a a cathartic process to release a stream of tweets late at night or early in the morning. Almost every day we get some unconfirmed, wild tweets from the President, and last night Chazwick Bundick of Toro y Moi was up to bat. “Can’t we all just be racist together?” he asked as a start of what turned out to be a stream of similarly-minded tweets about racism after the performer’s Chevron Festival Gardens show in Perth, Australia.
https://twitter.com/ToroyMoi/status/838608425609146368
https://twitter.com/ToroyMoi/status/838611466311745537
https://twitter.com/ToroyMoi/status/838612766483099649
https://twitter.com/ToroyMoi/status/838614776917839872
Hazarding a guess, it seems he is exchanging the word racism with prejudice when stating that we are all racists. But what’s more, there’s little that can be said for his statement that racism isn’t the problem, violence is; does he not see the relation between the two?
As a son to a Filipina mother and an African-American father, the South Carolina native goes on to claim that mixed individuals have a better view of the world. It seems he may have forgotten how those of being mixed race sometime suffers from having their dualities erased or are often socialized into believing one half of them is inferior to the other. Did he not get a chance to see Barry?
Bundick has been deemed the “godfather of chillwave” by many, and is currently gearing up for the release of Chaz Bundick Meets the Mattson 2. We’ll just have to see what kind of inventive reasoning he comes up with for his thought process behind his position.
