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 left always criticizes the right for not having empathy. I can tell you I feel a huge amount of empathy for the good, hard working, law abiding black people of this country who may get judged as part of the scumbags and culture of scumbaggery that’s formed in some places. That’s really unfair to them and I hope as whites, Christians, and moderates-to-rightists get attacked, we refrain from being too tribal.
When I watched the Uncle Tom documentary, I kept thinking, “these are the type of people I want to live around me, these could be my friends, my brothers and sisters.” Fuck, I wish I had Thomas Sowell as a father figure.
As mad as hell as I am over what’s going on, I gotta remember the degradation of the “black community” is a symptom. The disease are the radical leftists and lying media, opportunist politicians, weasel academics, and whomever else created this mess.