I am so fed up with all the false narratives, the endless cries of racism where there is none to be found, and the never ending victim mentality. Full disclosure, I'm a black guy and I'll be 40 in less than a week. For those of y'all who are around my age, I'm sure you can remember a time when society seemed to be progressing in the area of race relations by following the whole "judge by content of character mentality" and now that is seen as racist. Now as an adult I have lost a ton of respect for MLK Jr. based on things I've learned about him but I personally follow that idea of judging people as individuals and think that is a noble goal for a society.
I can't begin to count how many times I've been called sellout, traitor, uncle tom (although it shows their ignorance by not having read the book), and coon for merely pointing out the facts in these recent police incidents and also pointing out that a more serious issue to focus on would be the high out of wedlock birthrates in the black community or the disproportionate crime rate. I really got yelled at for pointing out that the black on white crime rate is higher than black on white and maybe that is something that should be addressed.
I am all for police reform but I have long believed that if you want to shine the light on bad cops then you need to show that police brutality affects all races and also to use actual data so you don't have a dishonest press going on and on about how people are hunted down by cops. Honestly the worst police shooting I've ever seen was the Daniel Shaver shooting. If any case needed national attention it was that one.
In my teens I went through an "everything is racist" phase which I still don't get how I got bit by the sjw bug since I grew up in a predominately white area and 99% of the people were nice and friendly. Luckily it was around that time I started spending summers with my grandparents and getting to know my grandfather was exactly what I needed. I had an epiphany and realized that if this guy who grew up in the Jim Crow south and was only able to get a third grade education isn't bitter and isn't constantly whining about racism then I need to shut up. I noticed that in all my elderly relatives. They always told me to work hard and be responsible and also to take advantage of the opportunities I have since I had opportunities they could've only dreamed of when they were young. Also it was in my teens that I was able to understand just how badly the racial greviance industry can poison a society.
My parents have been republicans since Reagan's first term so I guess it rubbed off on myself and my brothers. I didn't vote for Obama but I remember thinking that the one silver lining of his election would be an end to the people who wouldn't shut up about how everything is racist. I have never been more wrong about anything in my life. I never would have thought we could regress in race relations and become so hyper sensitive. I really feel that this whole "everything is racism" mindset and making up nonsense like systemic racism and white privilege (which can't easily be defined so the goalposts can be moved eternally) is pure poison for society as well as the victim mindset. It seems today that people of all races seem to feel like it is a badge of honor to be offended or feel they have been a victim of something.
Sorry for the long rant, but I just fear for America and the rest of the western countries. I honestly wish I could buy land for all the people who can't shut up about how evil the west is. I'd gladly put them up in the non majority white paradise of their choosing.
The one thing the leftists cannot do is accept the concept that you and they are fundamentally equal.
They will cling to that forever. They thought they were your better and so you had to work for them. Then they thought they were your better and so they could tell you to get out. Now, they think they're your better and you need their help.
That one thing never changes. They will never accept that you are their equal. They'll give up everything but that.
They hide their racism by fetishizing black people and pretending they need saviors from other imaginary racist white people. All while essentially treating them like house pets who only they can take care of.
That's the modern left in a nutshell.
"You're a racist!" is what they'll scream for pointing out what's plainly obvious. That an inner city culture that glorifies crime in every facet of their American cultural identity, and makes trying to better yourself through education and hardwork synonymous with being "white," is detrimental to the youth growing in those areas. It doesn't serve any positive purpose, at all.
But you have white liberal dickheads stepping in saying, "Don't worry, black person, I got this!" and interrupting any meaningful conversation.
It is also a deflection of the fact that they themselves had heavy hand in the creation of those inner city shit-holes. Who can protest their easily provable failures if those same 'circumstances' can be attributed to an underclass we are supposed to sympathize with. "That's black culture, you have to change yourself not them." Meanwhile no black person would adopt a shitty gangland ghetto wasteland as "cultural," until recently. Now you have bad actors (entertainment celebrities, and intentional agitators) proclaiming the same. "This IS black culture, whitey has to leave!"
So the left have engineered a reality, where the people they targeted and destroyed are now happily and fervently BEGGING for segregation so they can keep their shitty ghettos because they're so proud of them suddenly. What a diabolical and shameful display.
And if you need to ask why, there are many reasons, but the simplest is: Permanent Underclass => Guaranteed Voting Bloc => Elections Meaningless => Permanent Power => "Communist Utopia"
Couldn’t agree more.
Preach brother.
We're close to the same generation. My older brother is your age.
These goofy zoomers pretending they know what our lives were like is laughable.
When we say racism was pretty much going extinct, it's not hyperbole. These dumb fucking kids set things back 30 years, easily.
Stay positive, man.
30? More like 130.
No. Racism was going extinct among white people. Black people were still having the conversation in the '90s. Al Sharpton, AKA Reverend 911 was still at large.
They're different, until they're not, and they mustn't be treated differently, unless it's advantageous to them.
Truth is that growing up I never considered race when looking at a person. It never even cross my mind. But now, with everything being hypersensitive about race we are going to have a lot of racists. I feel that our generation had a certain innocence that has been forcibly removed and I so wish I could get it back.
I have to confess that do to all the push for diversity when ever there is a new hire that is a minority I can't help but think that it is another diversity hire that is not qualified which is very toxic way to look a things.
But there is no surprise after years of quotas. Ending race based preferences would be great for everyone. Force everyone to work hard.
Actually qualified people warned the subversives and supremacists pushing this agenda that what you're feeling was not only inevitable, it would be justified. They were right.
Right there with ya man.
The thing that I hate the most about this whole situation is that if these idiot race hustlers get the race war that they so desperately want, neither of us has any choice but to join up with the racists that match our skin tones.
Nah. You're both more than welcomed at my place.
I'll shoot anyone who has a problem with it in the fucking face.
Just because one group might be racist, doesn't mean I'll change my principles to accommodate it. I don't care what bullshit narrative the media likes to promote, I absolutely don't give one shit about skin color when I'm interacting with people. I only care if they're cool or not.
I know there's shitty white people out there, no where near the fuck as many as the media pretends, but there's shitty black people, too. In general, there's just shitty people.
Case in point: https://imgur.com/a/tnZal4n
I get shit like this constantly just by telling people the 1619 project is full of shit, or, that we have to confront problems of today and not to pretend people are chained by one's of the past. Hell, even saying I refuse to feel guilt for shit long before I was born sets people off.
Long story short, both of you need to keep your heads high. Other people don't get to decide what you are, only you do. There will always be sensible people who aren't blinded by ignorance.
that profile pic shown in the screenshot makes the guy look like a pedo.
Whats the backstory on that text?
I was having a conversation with some black people who said that all white people, regardless of their origins, are responsible for slavery and it's creation. That white culture was essentially a monolith, and whites were the only ones to ever abuse it so maliciously.
The conversation also included me saying that I don't believe there's a system in place in present day society that systematically oppresses black people and that the glorification of crime, promiscuity, drugs, and violence, in much of their culture is far more oppressive to the youth. Especially when education, hard work, and working-class success, are used to strip the racial identity of those who strive to better themselves by labeling them derogatory names and making it synonymous with being "white." Finally, I mentioned that oppressed people don't get backed by every big corporation, big tech, MSM, Entertainment, and entire political parties while being given free reign to riot for 4 months.
It all eventually opened the floodgates to mobs of angry people screaming that I'm a "mayo-monkey" racist who should be killed.
I told them that since they can't have civil conversations that open a dialogue into an issue they say they want more discussions about, that I'd be muting the conversation and moving on.
Then the DM's came.
That moreorless sums it up.
If the regressive left starts a racewar, it will just end in their politicide.
If I had a nickel for every time yet another DUMB FUCK WHITE BITCH thought she was down with the struggle and tried to lecture me on black lives and how much of a supposed nazi I am I could afford enough cosmetic surgeries to turn every chimo working at MidBoss into a reasonably attractive woman
Sure can.
I think we all know how this scene would go down today.
The simple fact is that the Left are terrible racists and collectivists. They do not want people judged on their individual actions and merits. Their dream for the world cannot live if people see one another as people and not groups based on color, sex, and so on. Propaganda, lies and literal brainwashing are their weapons to gain power, because no one in their right mind would agree to their cultish world views.
Thanks for that, it's important to remember that this shit annoys people who aren't white just as much as it annoys people who are.
I would say, though:
They depend upon appropriating whatever it is they think they need from everybody else. If you put them somewhere that needed them to be self-sufficient, they'd make like any good communist and starve.
Almost every teen has a "everything is racist, communism seems cool" fase.
But its like an entire generation is not growing up.
Blacks had the chance to fully integrate into and become a part of White American culture.
Instead, they rejected that positive path and decided to define themselves as anti-White. If it's white it's bad so let's do the opposite.
MLK Jr. and his committee grifter ilk played you suckers hard. Their goal was never "equality" or "peace" or "justice" or anything of the sort. The whole point of the "civil rights movement" was to fracture American society and creation separate nations within the nation. Give everybody a cause for grievance so they could unravel what was built.
I’d love to say you were wrong but you aren’t. Lots of people don’t want equality because it forces you to accept that you are responsible for your actions.
I still don’t get how my grandparents generation didn’t have this victim mentality yet black people in a more free time do.
I'm close to your age and feel the same way. I'm a white guy and grew up mainly lower-middle to middle-class. When I started school, there were black people. It wasn't new or odd they were just there. Hell, I remember in 1st or 2nd grade I was in an MLK day parade as a field trip. That was talked about a lot but I don't recall ever feeling like black people (or black teachers) were ever racist against me or ever thought I was racist against them. I think every job I've had there were black people as peers and as management. One of my favorite people at one job was a black dyke even! She never felt the need to go around with LGBT pride, but was just a genuinely nice person whose bedroom dealings were their own business.
So, I'm with you this whole concept of racism just didn't exist until I got into my late 20s and 30s (Obama basically). Now as a white guy I feel like I have to really trust a black person to even make a joke with them, and that's just sad. We were headed such a good direction and it feels like a total 180.
I know from talking to friends about such things even 5+ years ago, this is a common sentiment from us upper-30s people. I really think we are just a weird anomaly half-generation of people, it's like a middle child generation.
black people will nevef shut up moaning about race because their will always be whitd enablers
Sure can.
I think we all know how this scene would go down today.
lol
I honestly can't say how much of this is Marxism and how much of intersectionalism is Marxism infected by Democrats, who can only pass the most minor legislation without first igniting a class or a race war (or gender war, since the '60s). This has been true since Thomas Jefferson secretly financed a newspaper to smear John Adams and George Washington.
I recommend a good dose of David Cole at TakiMag. He doesn't have any easy solutions for you, but he sees and discusses the problems clearly as tribal tensions exacerbated by politics. He cheerfully indicts those of his fellow Jews whose "solutions" have repeatedly blown up in their faces.
I would scroll down to "Jewicide Bombers" on the above list and read forward in the timeline.
If you like those articles, I highly recommend Cole's memoir, Republican Party Animal.
Thanks, I have that website bookmarked
Remember that BLM and grievance bullshit is directed by feminism to keep men from uniting against their hatred.
It is directed by the cosmopolitan globalist elites which includes both men and women. You seem to absolve wealthy cosmopolitan men that are also fucking us all of their maliciousness and their agency.
You think feminist women are the absolute very top of the control structure but it goes much beyond their hate. Certain elites have found that feminists are a great tool to keep the populace from uprising.
Happy pre-emptive birthday. The big four zero.