Ajackson17;6007322 said:
CheifThird;6007266 said:
Every race of people in America look down on blacks and it was meant to be that way. Calling us the most racist is a half truth but its a joke because we are racist for a reason. Are we supposed to like a bunch of hypocritical crackers and foreigners who look down on us when they know what the history of our people is? They know we were sabotaged from the jump yet they choose to ignore that fact because it makes them feel better about their own bland soulless lives to look down on us.
And make light of our past, but tell the chinese to ignore what happened in nanking, ain't one chinese gonna take that shit, tell a Korean forget about what the Japanese did to them and they'll fight you, ask the jews to forget the holocaust nigga you are in for a law suit and a jumping look at Mel Gibson, tell the americans to forget the world trade center bombing, yeah right or the pearl harbor attack. It takes years of building and it took both 2 world wars to repair the damage between America and Britain and france. Shit, Japan did all types of evil in WW2 and got their shit fixed and same with Germany with american dollars, but blacks can't get a lil equality without being told they are a reverse racists or some shit like that and we don't even get some of the payback our ancestors gotten and like the Japanese American descendants gotten?
And they wonder why we don't like them? Anyone black who learns his history and the world history wouldn't like the system and those who protect it very will.
That was a straight up, oldschool, Ken Griffey Jr home run post right there. Can't argue with anything said.
I will try to add on though.
You solidified the undeniable reality that we are in a position where other races look at us suspect. Much of that is just in the fact that they want to maintain their monopolistic position of power in society/country/world. It's like denying Black people a seat at the UN, even though, from standpoints of economy (predominantly Black-driven through consumerism) to the FACT that this country was built on the literal backs of Black people, we should be mandated a seat at such a round-table....
Still, before I even started my point, I've digressed...
You blatantly displayed the reality that the other races hold us in poor regard, but I would like to also bring attention to the other part of this equation: what are we doing about it? The Trayvon Martin situation is crazy and we should definitely come together to fight this racial profiling bullshit, but... How serious should the sentiment be taken when we just maintain the status quo with hundreds and thousands of Black people being killed by none other than other Black people? So, other races should really take us seriously about Trayvon, yet understand why we're nonchalant about Chicago? Baltimore? The whole damn state of Florida and all the Black on Black murders and crime and mistreatment?
We went from Malcolm X asking, telling and demanding self-awareness and the expectation of excellence of ourselves to... Kanye West, Jay-Z and Barrack Obama being our beacons to aspire to? One is a commercial militant, lowkey cooning on some reckless shit, the other is a magnificent grinder, who is showing how to distance oneself from their culture and the people that made him, only to return when he's looking to get a fix of money and Obama is showing us the black version of what Anakin Skywalker had to deal with with the dark side of the force.
What I'm saying is, these races not giving us our due is expected because power doesn't like to be shared. So, our place has to be taken, by holding ourselves to the esteem that we expect others to. And when we master that, there's no way in hell we'd accept anything less.
That's why if a Jewish person is killed in New York, the whole damn city shuts down. That's why if a little girl is kidnapped in Idaho, there's an Amber Alert out across the US within the hour. And that's why even though there were/are several other races dealing with being treated like second-class citizens (Italians, Asians, Latinos, Irishmen), they all found some way to look at Black people as below them.
We have to take our respect, our spot at the table and let the world know we are taking nothing less than that.