Part Time Cooks Remind Us That Black Lives Matter In Their Video for Giant

by Phil Chard

It seems a week, or even a day cannot go by without hearing about another black American being gunned down the police. The way in which black lives are treated with such little regard by those tasked to protect and serve is a draining, horrifying and traumatic reality that all melanated people have been forced to confront in a very painful way.

The killings occur so frequently that when Part Time Cooks had finalised the release of their new video for Giant that Alton Sterling had just been senselessly murdered by police in Louisiana. As I type this post, I have just watched a video of another black man being murdered by the hands of police, this time it was Philando Castile who suffered the brutal misfortune of being black in America.

The video for Giant by Part Time Cooks was directed by Richard Rose . The concept for the song taken off their last offering Baker’s Dozen is simple – Saul and Black Moss experience the same day and circumstances on a split screen , the twist being that Saul experiences some of the mild everyday microaggressions that black people have to constantly endure as we the audience watch this all unfold on TV.

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