Sigh!! They’re so many things wrong with this thread that it was tough and slightly emotional to read. But considering the age and racial demographics of the site I’m not really surprised. I’ll just try to offer my persepective as a young (28) African American male, if it helps.
Side note: If they’re any other black posters on this site, I apologize if it seemed like I skipped over your post or come off as a bad representation in your eyes ( you can always DM me).
Here we go!
I've taken the liberty of hosing the majority of your post. Not because it comprised a list of facts that every school child knows but only a member of the stupidest generation would find profound, but for clarity.
Since you brought it up, we'll begin with demographics. I'm old. Not so old that my dick doesn't work or that I can't still do a good day's work in the back 40 but old enough where I'm beginning to can feel the gravitational pull of the grave. It doesn't worry me particularly - I came to grips with my own death when I was 11 or so - but I do worry about the loss of dignity and autonomy that end of life brings and hope I have the balls to hang myself when the time comes. But I'll stipulate to no longer being a young man. Also I'm white (mongrelized but still) and having been born so in the 20th century in NY state am happy for it. I would have been less happy had I been born a white indentured servant in Virginia in the 17th century and less happy still had I been born a white serf in Russia in the 15th or a white slave in Egypt in the 5th BC. But Lady Fortuna has smiled upon me and I am not so blind that I'm oblivious to my good fortune.
You on the other hand are young and black. I know this because you can barely go a single post without mentioning it. I take from it that you think your youth a badge of intelligence, fresh as you are from college, where you no doubt read several books. From your blackness I am not sure what to take. You seem on the one hand to think that it allows you special insight into the mysteries of life - I don't, I think the opposite, that those who see everything through the prism of race make the mistake of thinking everyone is as myopic as are they. But more profound is the other hand: you seem to find that blackness qua blackness aggrieving. That is I think sad and a shame. It is true that you might have been fortunately born a black king in Africa 600 years ago, where you could have traded your black slaves to Portuguese racketeers for rum and beads for transport to Brazil and Cuba where they would die in sugar fields - as was the fate of most African slaves, sold by their black owners to Hispanic traders for labor on Latin American plantations. But otoh you might have been born a slave in Africa or the New World or into Jim Crow, where the physical lineaments of institutional racism where transparent, as was my boon companion Panther, whose contempt for whites is at least understandable.
So that's out of the way. I'm white and old and that makes me a narrow-minded unintelligent bigot and you're young and black and that makes you a victim, despite the virtue and insight that your pigment bestows upon you. Which meandering leads me to my point, which [strike]should [/strike] shall take the form of two questions, like on Jeopardy, hosted by Alex Trebek who, evidently, had he tried just a bit harder might have been named head of the Luftwaffe, because if you can't see the difference between a game show host and Hitler, you're blind.
Question. What do you think would aid the black community more over the course of a single generation. The elimination of racial profiling and police shootings of unarmed African Americans, or if black children pulled up their pants, did their homework, stopped having babies out of wedlock, and stopped shooting each other? (I might have been trepidatious about asking that so bluntly had we not already established by age and demographics that I'm a racist.)
Question: how do a group of half-educated millionaires kneeling down in a sports arena address any of the issues raised in question one - on either side of the hypothetical - and if it does not, what is the point of it. Progressives - like say you and Theo, who sneer at old white men like myself - are already woke, and old white racists are not only too old to learn new tricks but presumably don't care to. So what is the point? All I can figure is that you are celebrating your own victimization whist simultaneously bullying your oppressors. Who it seems to me, if they were really skilled at oppressing, would not deign to be so bullied.
Discuss.
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