Hating White folks is quite popular in our ranks. Our Klan behavior is mostly self-inflicted, so we’ve yet to see American Whites running for their lives from Black lynch mobs.
White nationalists argue Black-on-White violence rates describe a more operational hatred than what I”m alluding to. Feel free to visit their sites and judge for yourselves.
There is, however, an attitude among American Blacks that it’s often acceptable to privately denounce Whites as ‘devils”; ‘crackers” and other epithets. Liberal sisters and brothers hasten adding this happens among White folks too.
Point noted. The N-word; ‘coon”; ‘monkey,” etc isn’t foreign in some White households but that’s not my subject. Mimicking their wrong doesn’t magically make ours right.
My overriding concern is the erosion of moral high ground in my segment of America. Payback politics is the order of the day, eclipsing Kingian ( as in Dr Martin Luther King ) emphasis on character over skin color.
I can’t address internal negatives afflicting the Black community by using my past in the 80s as the only frame of reference.
While the past provides context for present conditions, it can’t be used in a one-size-fits-all manner
Slavery can’t explain today’s Black homicide rate. Jim Crow doesn’t answer why our two-parent family unit has ceased to exist.
Blaming Republicans is a fun exercise but it isn’t Republicans busy tearing the inner city down from within. Do-nothing Black Democrats get re-elected by accusing White Republicans as the problem- not non-performance.
Obama is seen as payback for slavery and discrimination. The fact our unemployment and middle class loss skyrocketed on his watch doesn’t shake this mass delusion of inclusion.
Hating White Republicans; White conservatives and non-liberal Whiteness period seems their holy grail. The rage; vulgarity and even documented violence inflicted upon Romney supporters of all colors speaks volumes. As does the deafening silence from the White House when this occurs.
American Blacks borrowed best practices from the Democrat Party’s segregation era playbook and reloaded it: blind loyalty; dissenter intimidation via social media and an inability to accept other ideologies as valid.
The lessons of the past seem lost upon us. Being morally superior to White racism gave way to dipping bias in chocolate and declaring it chic.
Is this our victory? Acting like those we fought for generations?
A financial recession is bad enough. Compounding it with a moral one is intolerable.
Ritual recitals of White Republican racism rings hollow while so many American Blacks comfortably discriminate just like distant bigots they blame for everything under the sun.
By today’s low standards, were I a Black liberal, I’d hate my White friends too- just not to their faces. At least the New Black Panther Party is honest about their racism.
Being open about it brings too much heat, as the New Black Panther example illustrates That’s why Black liberals who feel this way are so covert about it.
Like ‘upstanding” White Citizens Councils of old, such hatred is quietly deployed at the voting machine, and , some suspect, the jury box.
I don’t hate White people- not even liberal ones. I disagree with policy and behavior- not pigment. Taking Americans on a case-by-case basis, as individuals, works for me.
Hating White people is beneath me.
“American Blacks borrowed best practices from the Democrat Party’s segregation era playbook and reloaded it: blind loyalty; dissenter intimidation via social media and an inability to accept other ideologies as valid.”
A fact so laden with irony that it seems at times quite baffling that so few Democrat enablers grasp it.
Content of character or go home. But of course if I say that (“go home”), it must be a dog whistle, not a colorblind figure of speech, to the likes of Chris Matthews, James Clyburn, and Al Sharpton.
Playing the victim is not a career path–or at least it shouldn’t be.
(As for crime statistics, they are what they are, but to even broach the subject is sufficient to be branded a racist, not just by “liberals,” but by conservatives as well [I’ve had it happen]–which, sickly and ironically, will empower neo-Nazi animals in the long term. Houston, we have a problem–not the least of which is our near total inability to even name it. Only Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams seem willing to touch that third rail.)
Silence emboldens Black-on-Black crime AND even more hotly debated Black-on-White crime, which as you noted, gives ammo to violent White separatists and quietly swells ranks of a growing, non-violent White nationalist movement.
The vandals I call “chocolate Klansmen” ( inner city thugs ) can only be stopped first, by honest Black stakeholders who deny them current enabling and White ones who aren’t demonized for accurately noting who from the American body politic is disproportionately crossing the fabled color line to harm them.
I’m for what I call the ” civil right of safety ” regardless of how suspects look.
But the only reason that black stakeholders are arguably the sole potential change agents is because of the cowardice of whites who have allowed themselves to be cowed by EduLeft/MSM/Dems and race-baiters.
Chocolate Klansmen pretty much says it.
Here’s what I’ve always wondered: Why doesn’t the Left give a damn about the elderly woman that made it through Jim Crow and is now a prisoner in her own home?
Great piece, capblack!
The problems of the black community are not the legacy of slavery. It is a big lie and can be debunked thusly: in the years following slavery, the rate of illegitimately in the black community was lower than it was in the white community. In the 100 years after the abolition of slavery, the problems we have now didn’t exist. It was only after blacks starts voting en masse for the Democrats did these problems start to show up. Time for blacks to stop playing the blame game and for whites to stop letting us.
“Time for blacks to stop playing the blame game and for whites to stop letting us.”
Succinctly and truly put.