Aaron McGruder - "White America has been watching us act like fools..."

[Gloxina]

He should've left out the "White America is watching us" and just said "we act like fools".



I said this in another thread...our community has lost it's way because the class, dignity and accountability that we held ourselves to is gone. Our moral compass is gone. Our spirituality is gone. We've decided to join white folks in a lifestyle of hedonism and debauchery.



The sad part about it all the 30, 40 and 50 year olds posting on this board that have completely turned their backs and embraced a life bereft of any class, structure or accountability.



If I started a revolution you'd be the first niccas I'd kill. Dead weight and liabilities all throughout our community.

Completely agree. It ain’t about white ppl. It’s about US.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

If you worried in any way about how white people perceive black people, then you probably wanna be white. fukk trying to talk white, act white, interact with whites, fit in they boxes, make them feel comfortable, etc… Go draw some fukking cartoons nikka. All that soft ass shyt this nikka was talking

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

If you worried in any way about how white people perceive black people, then you probably wanna be white. fukk trying to talk white, act white, interact with whites, fit in they boxes, make them feel comfortable, etc… Go draw some fukking cartoons nikka. All that soft ass shyt this nikka was talking

Yea c00nery

 

[Left.A1]

c00ning.

 

[TEH]

I dapped you even tho I don't fully agree with you. But you make good points.

First, I hate how we've often things like "pulling up our pants" get immediately framed as respectability politics. As if our every move must be the result of the white gaze and not some personal standards.


Moreover, this whole debate is the same old idealism vs. pragmatism debate everyone has. Except with an added cudgel of immediately labeling someone a c00n if they lean even a little bit towards pragmatism. You see this same debate amongst feminists: "I should be able to walk naked and high in a drunken frat house and not be sexually assaulted." Yes, ideally you're right. But pragmatically, I'd advise against that. Yes, the rapists are gonna rape regardless. But there are degrees to how human beings will act.

Taking it back to us: The Civil Rights movement knew this. That's why they put up photogenic Rosa Parks instead of the earlier woman who did the same thing.

I don't like it. I don't agree with it. But I know how people work. If they don't interact with a group of people much; and all they see in the media is Glorilla and the like; then they're gonna feel a certain type of way. Some of them would always feel that way. Some get pushed. They're not perfect. Most aren't even average.

Now it's up to us to decide whether we care or not. And if it's beneficial for us, as a minority, to care then we need to police our image just as much as some other minorities do; throw our trash away; and not let big media companies and politicians so easily exploit it.

Thank you

Rep

But wtf are you doing???

You need to post in TLR a lot more than you do now.

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

Quite literally, I stopped giving a fukk about what white people think and how they feel years ago. They can never intimidate me. They don’t never stand on how they feel when they around black people anyways. It’s all smiles and pleasantries when they see us.

 

[MyApps]

I'll only say this.

Watching how black America turned their backs against Bill Cosby has got to be one of saddest events in AMERICAN history. This man should be nearly as revered as MLK and Malcolm.

Thank God he still has some spirit left.

 

[DeuceZ]

I'm reading "The Color of Law" now....respectfully... fck what they think

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

wrong thread

 

[Rekkapryde]

the majority of White people will NEVER see us as equals.

agreed

we do need some support from those of them that do have empathy tho.

 

[Prez2032]

damn a nikka that wrote a show where every dark black person is a loud self hating c00n and the only black people with morals are drawn as mixed race is a c00n? i would have never thought

 

[bordeaux]

dude who made show where folks saying 'nikka' every other min.

 

[Gloxina]

I dapped you even tho I don't fully agree with you. But you make good points.

First, I hate how we've often things like "pulling up our pants" get immediately framed as respectability politics. As if our every move must be the result of the white gaze and not some personal standards.


Moreover, this whole debate is the same old idealism vs. pragmatism debate everyone has. Except with an added cudgel of immediately labeling someone a c00n if they lean even a little bit towards pragmatism. You see this same debate amongst feminists: "I should be able to walk naked and high in a drunken frat house and not be sexually assaulted." Yes, ideally you're right. But pragmatically, I'd advise against that. Yes, the rapists are gonna rape regardless. But there are degrees to how human beings will act.

Taking it back to us: The Civil Rights movement knew this. That's why they put up photogenic Rosa Parks instead of the earlier woman who did the same thing.

I don't like it. I don't agree with it. But I know how people work. If they don't interact with a group of people much; and all they see in the media is Glorilla and the like; then they're gonna feel a certain type of way. Some of them would always feel that way. Some get pushed. They're not perfect. Most aren't even average.

Now it's up to us to decide whether we care or not. And if it's beneficial for us, as a minority, to care then we need to police our image just as much as some other minorities do; throw our trash away; and not let big media companies and politicians so easily exploit it.

 

[The Pledge]

Nah, I don't really agree with this take at all, this is some respectability politics BS.


White people can elect a reality TV show host to be president, have all kinds of ignorant MAGA rallys and other shyt and it's only that person, not all white people. But every time somebody black goes on Youtube and does something dumb it's the fault of all black people

All of this

Trump and MAGA wiped that “pull your pants up” bullshyt off the map.

We have literal fukking hillbillies and shermheads in office.

 

[Fresh]

c00n shyt with minor truth, racist will be racist regardless of how polite I am or how tailored my suit is. The minstrel show we put at the forefront of entertainment doesn’t help us at all.

this

Black people in general get on my last nerve who worry about white people watching us

racist cacs are going to be racist towards Black people regardless of trivial things like how we speak, dress, act etc