I'm a 90s kid. I grew up listening to rap, watching a lot of sports, and wearing Air Jordans. Might sound silly, but I carried that into adulthood.
Events of the last couple of months have pushed me away from all that. It's this weird sense of alienation I'm feeling from the black community : "You have to support us, but at the same time we don't like you."
And I'm getting that feeling from all levels. Whether it's Nike and the NBA or just local small businesses or restaurants.
I'm a minority myself and during my almost 40 years of living in America, I have never felt this level of hostility and alienation from a group of people (certainly not white people) as I do from the black community these days.
I always try not to stereotype or paint an entire group of people with one brush, but I admit it's getting really tough. And I fear this is the type of climate that breeds TRUE racism.
The black community is never going to let go of slavery. We could give them a reparations check for twice as much as what they are asking for and they still wouldn't be happy with that. They want white people to suffer. The whole BLM push is a bad faith argument all the way around and back again. Anyone who so much as humors BLM with their attention is failing a shit test. I know it's hard to think like this because as someone who also grew up in the 90s, we were taught to treat everyone the same. But as an adult I have learned that respect is earned and anyone arguing against you in bad faith is not worth your attention. Your best move against any person, regardless of their skin color, who demands you support BLM is to just not give that conversation any air. Social justice causes thrive on attention; deprive them of it and they can't breathe.
Couldn't agree more. When I was a kid we celebrated what we had in common. That we were Americans getting to live in the greatest country on Earth.
I feel like these days everyone, even kids, are fed this narrative that diversity (which is really emphasizing differences) is not just good but necessary and on top of that certain different people DESERVE more beneficial treatment because of what happened or didn't happen generations ago. It's insane imo.
It's not insane, it's reality for any balkanized country.
It's not a coincidence that this has escalated right along with changing demographics. You haven't seen anything yet.
Part of the problem is identifying as "the black community" while simultaneously jockeying for "equality".
Can't have both.
Renounce your identity if you want to be equal to a different one. It's very simple.
Furthermore THEY CAN'T PROVE
THEY WERE ACTUAL VICTIMS
YOU WERE ACTUALLY GUILTY
This never happens. Call them out for the hustling, lazy, opportunistic frauds of murders, liars, and robbers they are. There is no "black community". What a fucking stupid term. YOU THINK FOR YOURSELF. THERE'S NO GROUP ENTITY "THE BLACK COMMUNITY". Sorry. You're an individual human no matter who wants to enslave you and race pimp you - be it "black/white" "irish" "gypsy" or "jewish".
Abolitionists and slave-owners are alike attacked, and all people are universally condemned FOR THEIR SKIN COLOR as an apparent "justice" against the ALLEGED AND UNPROVEN condemnation based on skin color! It's firetrucking stupid.
Slavery runs rampant in WORLD history in ALL ages including the debt and wage slaves in China, India, Pakistan, Turkey, etc and third world countries. If you own a "made in China" item, YOU OWN SLAVES. INCLUDING YOU, LEBRON FRAUD JAMES. YOU'RE NOT MICHAEL CORLEONE.
The double standards, the hypocrisy, the lack of evidence, the lack of trial, the lack of jury, the lack of judge - IT'S NOT JUST THE CIVIL WAR OR SLAVERY OR REPARATIONS. It's just a scam. You technically can't blame people for grifting you like a pigeon.
No man is guilty for the crimes of his OWN ancestors, let alone the crimes of the ancestors of someone else.
How many people even trace their family tree back? Do you know where YOU came from? History knowledge is a key out of the scam.
Don't get bamboozled by hustlers, America. Don't matter what color or race or whatever you claim to be - all are equally human, an all are equally free to succeed or fail by the hand of fate, industry, and luck.
You're all equally free to be conned, duped, and led like sheep to a slaughter too. Choose wisely.
At some point it’s not the media’s fault....it’s also the individual who has to WAKE THE FUCK UP and realize the real world ain’t like mainstream media portrays it.
It not the ‘community,’ it’s their ‘community leaders’ who’s importance and power comes from promoting and sustaining grievance culture. If people got along as citizens instead of black vs white, they would lose everything.
The “leaders” have some responsibility....but don’t you dare excuse the black community for buying into this shit. Leaders are useless if nobody follows.
His point is that they are being indoctrinated to hate. Propaganda works. We need to support the black Americans that think for themselves and don’t fall for this divisive evil.
I will stand next to ANY American who wants real equality.