White People. I have one request. PLEASE STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES! (rates, Florida)
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Ok, fine. Then your unconscious bias against your fellow white people and self loathing is something you cannot choose, but you allowing it to inform your politics IS a choice.
Political belief and religion are NOT Immutable characteristics (maybe Jews can say that... they are kinda sorta an ethno-religion).
If you are Christian, however, you should understand how much the liberal left orthodoxy these days is reflective of a religious movement. BLM is actually a classic case of a cult/religion:
1) Beliefs and dogma which are self-referential and often do not stand up to statistical or scientific inquiry;
2) In-group/Out-group dynamic (believers v. non-believers)
3) Righteousness (the "right side of history")
4) Ex-communication for those who go against the dogma
5) Purity trials and slogans/prayers that need to be repeated and repeated
6) Tithing Expectations
7) Hostility toward other belief systems
There's a difference between being open (LIBERTARIAN or CLASSIC LIBERAL) and being a PROGRESSIVE/LEFTIST.
The former is admirable. The latter needs to be eradicated.
I'm an atheist now but I can extend that self-loathing I was taught to everyone and not just white people. I was taught "all lives are worthless before the Lord" but "also His love extends to all these worthless sinners".
The Cultural Revolution is just beginning. Once the Democratic Party regains power and institutes its Green Leap Forward the purges and public denunciations will begin in earnest. Counterrevolutionaries will be expelled from every corner of society and replaced by those who espouse Party ideals.
I just cannot take it anymore. This self hating some of you have is insane. This pandering to me and my community is insane. Stop lowering yourselves. You do not need to be doing this. Please stop letting the media, politicians, and loons shame you into feeling bad for being white or for not being black. Fight back against this public shaming.
My friends and neighbors are still treating me normally, thankfully, but other white people are all but bowing at my feet. They are tripping over themselves to make sure I am happy, taken care of and given extra attention. It is actually getting weird. Really weird.
Please just go back to living your normal life. Nothing is wrong with your normal life. You are not evil for being white. You are not privileged for being white. Your skin color and my skin color are just skin tones, nothing more.
there are some folk that arent going to be happy with you for saying this.
there are some folk that arent going to be happy with you for saying this.
Why not? Its a black person feeling sorry for white people who feel sorry for black people. Its a circle of sorryness.
Its somewhat of a weird thing to say, but hey, for the first time in his/her life he/she got decent service in a restaurant, so maybe those BLMers accomplished something after all
If you can't relate then just go back to making your dinner. Really--- Some will go overboard, some KNOW they have been nasty... let them be nice to you-- even that seems to be a problem??? why?
Who are these people? Honestly, I find this statement hilarious. Everyone once in a while you run across bothas with these type of opinions. They usually preach being color blind all up until they're personally affected by "discrimination or abuse". I have a black friend who is a military man, who is a staunch conservative. He loves the second amendment and is a small government type guy big time. His fellow conservatives loved him when he criticized Obama and spoke loudly and often about how blacks need to stop voting Democrat. He received a rude awakening when he saw how his "conservative friends" responded to his stances on police brutality against black folk and when he let them know he opposed many of the Trump policies.
Some people find the attention pleasurable when they are the only black man in the room. But what happens when those in the room turn against you and you realize they did so because you are black? Maybe there was an awakening and you stopped being their token negro???
Brotha, there is something called white privilege and there is systematic racism ingrained in American society. There's no reasonable means of denying this. how you approach it is up to you..
My advice to black men who get caught up in this kind of thinking. See with a third eye and listen with a third ear. if you come home you don't have to spend effort trying to be something others want you to be... Our arms will be wide open...
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This right here is the problem. The plantation and victim mentality. Those of us who stray from the plantation are looked down upon by those choosing to stay on the plantation. What we do is shame anyone who dare speak the truth, who dare realize that it is not all someone else's fault, who talk about our own responsibility in life.
Many say being a black man in America is hard. I submit what is harder is being a black man who dare go against the victim mentality that my own community id so heavily invested in.
Correct. We are not allowed to leave the plantation. It is like the democrat Matrix. But I am Neo. I can see it all the way it really is.
You left one plantation for another.
Better take another pill, Neo.
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