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.
Blacks are super racist, super in-group protecting, and 45x more likely to commit a violent crime against a white then a white against a black is per 2018 Bureau of Justice Crime Victimization Survey.
Even some of the successful black friends I have, they are the first to jump on a fake black victim narrative, first to ignore facts as they come out, and never change their minds. It's like they know they are causing a shit ton of problems for everyone else, that they can't help it, and so they engage in group deniability about even the most basic things that make sense to everyone else.
I'm so sick of seeing the excuses and racism accusations against me for simply being white, keeping my nose clean, raising my family, that I don't want to be around them. It's terrible, but they do this to us every time they lose their shit and flex over some random scumbag.
Yep I agree. How do we fix it?
The few times I ever convinced someone to change their opinion was not to go at them head on. I picked a topic well in the past that no one cares much about now. I used the Trayvon case. I asked my friend what he knew of it. He summarized the standard media bullshit: racist white guy patrolling community shoots unarmed black teen who just wanted some skittles.
I then told him I never asked anything of him since I’ve known him, but could he please watch the Trayvon Hoax doc on youtube. He did. He’s probably voting for Trump now. And much more open to the idea that the news is lying about current stuff too.