Black Culture Discussion Thread

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Movements & decades wasted. I'm not with the pc attitude that a certain group of people can coexist with us. I believe that their aggressions towards us are innate & we have yet to come to consciousness about that as a whole. Its been discussed on here before but our popular movements towards rights in the country were futile & essentially checkers move. What we should have been doing is securing the economic future of our community as opposed to the right to sit (while poor) next to the others.

 

[aepps20]

How much time do yall feel as an ethnic group we are wasting trying to prove that racism exists as opposed to combating it in different ways?

I think we waste a ton of time. I for one don't even bother trying to prove racism exists because the sad reality is that it exists and it will always exist. I try to focus on activities such as attaining knowledge and trying to encourage young people I know the importance of getting a good education and being financially responsible with whatever assets they have. To be honest, racism is so hard for some people to understand that you waste your time. Even some branches of the Klan try to play down their racism and say they are really about uplifting the white community. Lol

 

[AEA18]

Veteran activist and film producer Kali Akuno discusses his forthcoming project "An American Nightmare: Black Labor and Liberation".

 

[dathbgboy]

Ok, glad I'm not the only one. We've been marching, praying, protesting, etc. for decades and nothing has changed completely, slight progress. We won't be accepted and there's a deep rooted reason as to why we won't be so to keep waiting for help and acceptance that will never come is counterproductive to us as an ethnic group.

 

[luckyluchiano]

Veteran activist and film producer Kali Akuno discusses his forthcoming project "An American Nightmare: Black Labor and Liberation".

I donated to the kickstarter and you guys should too.

 

[trueprada]

White students at Mountain View High School in Stafford VA, from the class of '16, wear "NI16GA We Made It" shirts. 

 

[luckyluchiano]

White students at Mountain View High School in Stafford VA, from the class of '16, wear "NI16GA We Made It" shirts. 

You have asians and non black spanish speakers on this site who use the word. This is what happens when younare the worlds step child and they tell you to forget the past and ignore color.

 

[pretty tony]

Tony Browder is that dude.

His analysis of "The Secret" woke me up and got me out my "cotton picking mind." It was like 5 or 6 hours long and my mind was blown...


These two books are good for those just coming into the knowledge.
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I read that second book in the 8th grade. I can't believe I've never heard of the Potomac tours. It's still unseasonably warm in dc. I'm about to hop on this asap.

 

[pretty tony]

Movements & decades wasted. I'm not with the pc attitude that a certain group of people can coexist with us. I believe that their aggressions towards us are innate & we have yet to come to consciousness about that as a whole. Its been discussed on here before but our popular movements towards rights in the country were futile & essentially checkers move. What we should have been doing is securing the economic future of our community as opposed to the right to sit (while poor) next to the others.

Couldn't have it said any better.

 

[AEA18]

I bet some black dude co-signed that non-sense

Can't believe the school let them wear those shirts

That should be a violation of the dress code

 

[trueprada]

exactly 

 

[Nouss]

So I had a white South African call me racist yesterday because we disagreed on the legacy of Cecil Rhodes. For him, CR was a pioneer and he was insulted when I called him a colonizer. The concept of white privilege literally left him in awe. He had no idea such a thing existed.

Dude was in full support of British/Dutch occupation of South Africa. His main retort was a question to my questions.
He continued to ask what was I, an African, doing in the U.S.

He basically compared an immigrant to what his forefathers did in Southern Africa, on some we came here for a better life tip.

The conversation ended when I had enough and asked him if apartheid was a bad thing? He refused to answer this question.


Just want to y'all to know that these people exist and not only on the internet or America.
Hours later, I am still thinking about it. Like really?


Oh and dude continued to bring up the Chinese, he literally accused the Chinese of doing exactly what his people did for centuries while refusing to admit that Europeans actually did it.

 

[AZwildcats]

I have never met a white South African that I liked. Legit can't stand them

 

[young street86]

I have never met a white South African that I liked. Legit can't stand them

I used to work with one who was pretty cool. Granted i never talked to him about politics and race.

Also, those Anthony (Tony) Browder vids are eye opening. I need to pick up his books. He was spitting on the Rock Newman show

 

[36 ounces]

White students at Mountain View High School in Stafford VA, from the class of '16, wear "NI16GA We Made It" shirts. 

I know dese lil hussies got suspended

 

[Quincy McCall]

An interesting look at the claim of innate racism

http://socialistworker.org/2002-2/431/431_08_Racism.shtml

 

[gwap]

 
An interesting look at the claim of innate racism

http://socialistworker.org/2002-2/431/431_08_Racism.shtml

Capitalism created racism and can't function without it. The way to end racism once and for all is to win a socialist society--in which the first priority is abolishing all traces of exploitation and racism.

blaming capitalism for racism??

 

[Quincy McCall]

 
Capitalism created racism and can't function without it. The way to end racism once and for all is to win a socialist society--in which the first priority is abolishing all traces of exploitation and racism.

blaming capitalism for racism??

I think he meant that institutional racism gets a pass in the name of capitalism. Basically saying the Slave Trade was the start, and oppression is politically stable because the elite can blame/frame who they will

 

[hand2handking]

the underlying basis for slavery was capitalism and independance from british "control"

 

[tokes99]

 
An interesting look at the claim of innate racism

http://socialistworker.org/2002-2/431/431_08_Racism.shtml

Capitalism created racism and can't function without it. The way to end racism once and for all is to win a socialist society--in which the first priority is abolishing all traces of exploitation and racism.


blaming capitalism for racism??

yea, kinda...

ethnocentrism, tribalism, or "racism" as practiced on an individual to individual level has always & will continue to exist in one way or another, but the institution of slavery and what it has begot has pretty much been an economic one and the justification of treating another human being as less than was inferiority; the trans atlantic slave trade ushered in a wholly different type of slavery and one that the distinction was black & white (#punlife) in a way that maybe was not as clear in previous incarnations. it is a rationale that makes some sense from a historical perspective; so it isn't that capitalism causes racism per se, it is more complicated than that, but it does make for a starting point...from the linked page:

Racism isn't just an ideology but is an institution. And its origins don't lie in bad ideas or in human nature. Rather, racism originated with capitalism and the slave trade. As the Marxist writer CLR James put it, "The conception of dividing people by race begins with the slave trade. This thing was so shocking, so opposed to all the conceptions of society which religion and philosophers had…that the only justification by which humanity could face it was to divide people into races and decide that the Africans were an inferior race."

 

[gwap]

slavery is a symptom of racism... not the precursor...

yall really think communism/socialism removes racism from a civilization?

 

[Coromanti]

I'm not against socialism. I think it can work.

However I'm a pragmatist and as far as caribbean states go we tried at it, and failed at it and I doubt we will want to mess around with it again in the near future.

It wont be an option until the people my father's age (50s+) are dead. They lived through food shortage, rationing, in grenada's case invasion, and mass brain drain due to the failure of socialism.

Many states are still recovering from its failed implementation. So as far as the Caribbean is concerned full on socialism is dead. Social democracy on the other hand could be implemented however.

As for Black Americans...you don't have control of even 1/50 states to implement socialist reform in. Your best bet would be to get control of a state. However no state is no more than 40% black people. So there's a challenge as far as voting in black people into power to make these changes. IDK fam.

 

[tokes99]

slavery is a symptom of racism... not the precursor...

yall really think communism/socialism removes racism from a civilization?

not at all, but if we talking about racism today being more a systemic way of discrimination rather than individuals exercising personal preferences, the starting point would seem to be with the slave trade and/or the western colonialism; which was all about capital.

 

[truth-serum]

Good documentary on the slave trade on tonight's 60 minutes on CBS. Playing right now on the east coast

 

[executive76]

The Plan Of Integration & Diversity.

"Black people had more in the 1950s than they do today"