In his book, “Black Victim to Black Victor”, Adam B. Coleman shares Census data that show 60% of black Americans (27,273,482) live in 10 of our 50 states. These 10 states, according to the 2021 U.S. Census Bureau are New York, California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Maryland, Michigan, and Louisiana.
Great phrase and like the other porn industry there is a lot of money to be made. Decades ago I walked out of an educational event sponsored by NOW. I knew whatever it was they stood for, it wasn't for me. Recently, an attorney organization has been seeking candidates to head various specialty sections. The application includes a request to explain the obstacles one has faced and how they were overcome. An event I looked forward to attending on litigation updates is going to review the ##metoo in retrospect. I won't be attending any function with the organization, and wish I could get my money back. Ironically, the Critical Theorists (grandfathers to CRT) weren't wrong with their view that everything becomes commodified under a capitalist system. Unfortunately, their solution of destroying culture, especially the family, pushed commodification into every crevice of our lives.
Cecil, clearly every nationality can be viewed through a myopic lens and a caricature of any culture can be made. For example as a caricature I suspect most German Americans do not want to be viewed as Jack booted, pickelhaube wearing people. The problem, as I see it, is that entertainment and media has embraced the caricature and made it real. One can assume that most people of any culture are not reflected in the costume portrayed. Sadly however entertainment and media make it seem ubiquitous and then theater becomes life.
Very true. And the same can be said of any demonized group (or person). While it behoves us all to avoid judgement based on other than personal experience, it is difficult to avoid filing the negative stereotypes we pick up in media in our subconscious. Let's all step up our game.
I grew up in Central Idaho. There’s a specific culture in the Northern Rockies. The highest value is being a hard worker and being honorable to your word. Any black person who visited or lived there would be judged by those characteristics just like everyone else. If you could get up at dawn every morning and buck haybales for the cows, you would gain utmost respect from virtually everyone in town.
The first black person that lived year round in my hometown was the Catholic priest. No one ever stopped going to church or spoke ill of him. Ever.
Now the media is specifically going after white rural people and creating caricatures of them. I believe that it would be very easy to find common grounds with white rural people if you were to visit anywhere and just say you are worried about the racial divide and want to understand each other more. You would be treated very well.
The black community is being exploited by the people selling those images. Some of those people are white liberals selling racism. Some of them are white racists selling racism. . But some of them are within the black community, and they are profiting from trauma too, exploiting suffering for monetary gain. The image problem is real, because the trauma is real and pervasive, particularly in the inner cities. Im not black. As an American, and as a human being, I’d like to see the dysfunction in our society improved. I’d like to see the racial animus that has been stoked in the last 20 years tamped down. But there are forces that rely upon division and discord to make money and gain political power. They also enable criminality and destructive personal choices.It’s difficult to fix these things while the government and Left encourages them, and while popular culture glorifies bad behavior.
Though not American nor live there, not white nor western, I have watched a few US TV shows of recent vintage that featured black main characters. They stood tall and proud; and after an episode or two, you no longer are aware of their colour but rather focussed on their portrayed characters. It strikes me the goal of BLM and CRT is to encourage victimisation. It’s good to know there are critical thinkers such as yourself and the authors you cited, plus more, who are boldly and bravely speaking the truth.
I am glad you have brought up the entertainment biz in all of this, they never get enough credit for profiting off these stereotypes, they do it will all minorities but black people are their gold mine for sure, the more they debase themselves the better it is for a very corporate business that is run by very wealthy people, many who are white, often left in their politics and full of some kind of savior complex. You will rarely see minorities in any real authority in that business they are best when they are on stage or screen doing what they are told or cleaning up someone's messes in very low wage entry level jobs. If minorities don't do either of these things they make these people very uncomfortable and will be punished accordingly, often that is through some kind of humiliation and termination.
Include the likes of Joy Reid, Sunny Hostin and Don Lemon who preach constantly about “the legacy of slavery” and marginalization of black and brown people as though Jim Crow still exists. I highly recommend the films Uncle Tom and Uncle Tom 2. Also follow Chad O. Jackson on YouTube and social media. Chad was featured in the first film and was involved in the production of the second.
Before COVID, my wife and I hosted parties for Swarthies, where my stepson brought other scholarship students from Swarthmore who had no place to go for the holidays. We did not mind that when things got loud and intense, that the group broke up with the younger people gaming in the living room, mumbling about the older folks and the rest of us remaining at the long tables, sipping bourbon, single malt, or tea and eating multiple slices of pies.
Then came the killing of George Floyd and the refrigerator trucks parked outside nursing homes when the morgues overflowed and could take no more bodies.
The Swarthies dispersed, with some never to return or keep in contact. In our mixed community, it was difficult to jump start the conversations again. But in sports bars, the Phillies, Fliers and Sixers gave us something to watch in silence until the ads gave us space to talk. At first, old men sharing stories about exaggerated prowess or simply the shared anxiety of living longer than we expected. Then, the holidays came and broke the boredom of too many old men complaining. Wives, kids, and grandkids showed up. It became easier to talk about sport and race across the barriers of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and age. No miracles are expected, but it is a start. If only the performance of the Philadelphia sports teams can give us something to collectively cheer about.
Great phrase and like the other porn industry there is a lot of money to be made. Decades ago I walked out of an educational event sponsored by NOW. I knew whatever it was they stood for, it wasn't for me. Recently, an attorney organization has been seeking candidates to head various specialty sections. The application includes a request to explain the obstacles one has faced and how they were overcome. An event I looked forward to attending on litigation updates is going to review the ##metoo in retrospect. I won't be attending any function with the organization, and wish I could get my money back. Ironically, the Critical Theorists (grandfathers to CRT) weren't wrong with their view that everything becomes commodified under a capitalist system. Unfortunately, their solution of destroying culture, especially the family, pushed commodification into every crevice of our lives.
Cecil, clearly every nationality can be viewed through a myopic lens and a caricature of any culture can be made. For example as a caricature I suspect most German Americans do not want to be viewed as Jack booted, pickelhaube wearing people. The problem, as I see it, is that entertainment and media has embraced the caricature and made it real. One can assume that most people of any culture are not reflected in the costume portrayed. Sadly however entertainment and media make it seem ubiquitous and then theater becomes life.
Very true. And the same can be said of any demonized group (or person). While it behoves us all to avoid judgement based on other than personal experience, it is difficult to avoid filing the negative stereotypes we pick up in media in our subconscious. Let's all step up our game.
I grew up in Central Idaho. There’s a specific culture in the Northern Rockies. The highest value is being a hard worker and being honorable to your word. Any black person who visited or lived there would be judged by those characteristics just like everyone else. If you could get up at dawn every morning and buck haybales for the cows, you would gain utmost respect from virtually everyone in town.
The first black person that lived year round in my hometown was the Catholic priest. No one ever stopped going to church or spoke ill of him. Ever.
Now the media is specifically going after white rural people and creating caricatures of them. I believe that it would be very easy to find common grounds with white rural people if you were to visit anywhere and just say you are worried about the racial divide and want to understand each other more. You would be treated very well.
The black community is being exploited by the people selling those images. Some of those people are white liberals selling racism. Some of them are white racists selling racism. . But some of them are within the black community, and they are profiting from trauma too, exploiting suffering for monetary gain. The image problem is real, because the trauma is real and pervasive, particularly in the inner cities. Im not black. As an American, and as a human being, I’d like to see the dysfunction in our society improved. I’d like to see the racial animus that has been stoked in the last 20 years tamped down. But there are forces that rely upon division and discord to make money and gain political power. They also enable criminality and destructive personal choices.It’s difficult to fix these things while the government and Left encourages them, and while popular culture glorifies bad behavior.
Though not American nor live there, not white nor western, I have watched a few US TV shows of recent vintage that featured black main characters. They stood tall and proud; and after an episode or two, you no longer are aware of their colour but rather focussed on their portrayed characters. It strikes me the goal of BLM and CRT is to encourage victimisation. It’s good to know there are critical thinkers such as yourself and the authors you cited, plus more, who are boldly and bravely speaking the truth.
I am glad you have brought up the entertainment biz in all of this, they never get enough credit for profiting off these stereotypes, they do it will all minorities but black people are their gold mine for sure, the more they debase themselves the better it is for a very corporate business that is run by very wealthy people, many who are white, often left in their politics and full of some kind of savior complex. You will rarely see minorities in any real authority in that business they are best when they are on stage or screen doing what they are told or cleaning up someone's messes in very low wage entry level jobs. If minorities don't do either of these things they make these people very uncomfortable and will be punished accordingly, often that is through some kind of humiliation and termination.
Bravo, Cecil - and not for the first time.
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All the best to you, sir.
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Include the likes of Joy Reid, Sunny Hostin and Don Lemon who preach constantly about “the legacy of slavery” and marginalization of black and brown people as though Jim Crow still exists. I highly recommend the films Uncle Tom and Uncle Tom 2. Also follow Chad O. Jackson on YouTube and social media. Chad was featured in the first film and was involved in the production of the second.
Before COVID, my wife and I hosted parties for Swarthies, where my stepson brought other scholarship students from Swarthmore who had no place to go for the holidays. We did not mind that when things got loud and intense, that the group broke up with the younger people gaming in the living room, mumbling about the older folks and the rest of us remaining at the long tables, sipping bourbon, single malt, or tea and eating multiple slices of pies.
Then came the killing of George Floyd and the refrigerator trucks parked outside nursing homes when the morgues overflowed and could take no more bodies.
The Swarthies dispersed, with some never to return or keep in contact. In our mixed community, it was difficult to jump start the conversations again. But in sports bars, the Phillies, Fliers and Sixers gave us something to watch in silence until the ads gave us space to talk. At first, old men sharing stories about exaggerated prowess or simply the shared anxiety of living longer than we expected. Then, the holidays came and broke the boredom of too many old men complaining. Wives, kids, and grandkids showed up. It became easier to talk about sport and race across the barriers of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and age. No miracles are expected, but it is a start. If only the performance of the Philadelphia sports teams can give us something to collectively cheer about.