Gotdamn… Amerie just ethered the US and the entire western civilization.

Ezekiel 25:17

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I always find it weird when black people are so pro-western civilization when our very existence in these colonial countries is a direct result of hypocrisy and brutality. Yes, we’re afforded privileges that other countries don’t have but some of those inequalities and government corruption exist due to western interference.

It’s not “virtue signaling” to acknowledge that we live in a fukked up society.

The whole world is fukked up though, that's what y'all keep failing to mention. You think black people are only treated unequal under western civilization? Yes we're Pro Western civilization unless you can point to a better place for blacks.

Would we have been better in Africa right now? Because there's no other place on this planet where blacks are treated fairly.


Pick your poison.
 

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:francis:Don't have much to contribute, but...:

  • Amerie can give all sorts of pouch rubs and etcs
  • Amerie spoke the gospel
  • I tried the whole 'well if you don't like it, leaf" shyt and yeahhhh my spaceship crashed and my fam and I were in a bind mate
Yes, this country is WOAT on a social and economical priority level, but no place is perfect by any means. Hell....I hated living in the south (still feel it to a certain degree), but one thing came to my mind after the smoke cleared.....

I felt more at home in a place that has bad stigma because :mjpls: and folks are more smoothed brain than a dead koala, than I have every felt being born and raised any place else thus far.

Sometimes, its just a matter of a different block change or a different city, state, or tree to change your mind about how fukked up the situation is.

Don't get me wrong, if I had the means and etc...next plane smoking.

But for now, the little things. I'm blessed to be in a country where I can identify as a black man, despite being a koala at birth :mjcry:
 

Ezekiel 25:17

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It’s just stockholm syndrome. It’s the result of not having other options. Like a battered woman who can’t leave an abusive home

If there was a first world Africa to return to a good percentage would go there.

(And btw, like women, they aren’t willing to help build Africa to that point, just wait at the finish line of what’s already been built by others)

Unfortunately that isn't the case because the black leaders, our own people, would rather fill their pockets.

Maybe another 50 years from now Africa will be first world.
 

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The whole world is fukked up though, that's what y'all keep failing to mention. You think black people are only treated unequal under western civilization? Yes we're Pro Western civilization unless you can point to a better place for blacks.

Would we have been better in Africa right now? Because there's no other place on this planet where blacks are treated fairly.


Pick your poison.

The argument of if we’d be better off in Africa is disingenuous because it tends to ignore the fact that the lack of infrastructure and government/civil stability across countries in the continent is a direct result of European/American colonialism. A lot of the corruption that takes place across African countries is directly linked to governments that were put in place by the UK/EU when countries were “given back” their independence.

If African/Caribbean countries had the same level of infrastructure and government stability as the US/UK/EU, it would be 1000% better for black people to live there because at the very least, you wouldn’t have to worry about institutional racism.
 
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The argument of if we’d be better off in Africa is disingenuous because it tends to ignore the fact that the lack of infrastructure and government/civil stability across countries in the continent is a direct result of European/American colonialism.

If African/Caribbean countries had the same level of infrastructure and government stability as the US/UK/EU, it would be 1000% better for black people to live there because at the very least, you wouldn’t have to worry about institutional racism.

You're making an assumption, we don't know that. History has shown time and time again, Money and power corrupts all.

Chinese, Russia, North Korea, and India shyt on their own people. Their own kind.

Black Americans in Africa wouldnt be dealing with racism, but theres the possibilities we'd still be dealing with tribalism, rich vs poor, high taxes, high COL, etc.
 

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The west has no "culture" like a Mexico, Japan or Switzerland.

It's literally a bordered tax zone with a population to exploit and make money off of.

When you realize that, that's when it all makes sense. They don't care about maintaining some kind of cultural or aesthetic status quo.

The whole "beacon of virtue" "American Dream" thing is a marketing tactic.
Attract the immigrants - more immigrants, more people to tax.
That's why they'll never close the borders.

Now they see all the skilled immigrant engineers and STEM scientists coming in to do high-level work for cheap and they're licking their chops.
They don't care about YOU or any CITIZEN - they care about money.

That's the false, entitled Western Belief they've installed into you and trained you to think - that you being American means anything in the working world.
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IF the powers that be really cared about it's citizens over all else, they wouldn't treat it's American citizens like this.
They're NOT that shining beacon though - because they prioritize money and capitalism over you, it's citizens.
They care about themselves and use you. If you're not running anything, then you're expendable. You're a worker. Even if you're a STEM worker.
Immigrants save corporations money at all levels and get the job done as well, so they choose them as their workers from STEM to manual labor.

The NBA right now is showing you how many talented people are coming in from all countries, as capable as anyone else.
Instead of a ool of 340 million Americans, they now see 8 BILLION highly capable people out there to choose from.

People really need to be thinking of their exit plan as they get older.
As time goes this country will get younger with more skilled immigrants doing complex work for cheap.
You were just a cog in the wheel this whole time to reach their end game.

War is to protect this system to keep it going (which also is a product to sell that generates money).


There too - look at the modern defense and weapons engineering work for this country - done by a lot of immigrants.

At the end of the day consider this:
A lot of Arab Muslims work in The West's defense industry because they get paid more than average and the U.S knows it's efficient money.

Similarly:
This whole "beacon of morality" facade is to keep the people tranquil and content just enough in order for a select few to do their dirt and stack money.
They see it as efficient: you get a little comfort and they get a whole bunch of money off you being docile and playing within the rules.

It's not about YOUR FREEDOM. You're nobody special. The "FREEDOM" is a negotiation/compromise you get so you don't 100% go into overthrow mode.

You're literally talking about a Constitution than has some really old-fashioned way of thinking, the oldest in the world that was thought of during a time when the world looks nothing like it does today. shyt is outdated af.

She is 100% right.

Whew!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽! But hey, don’t mind the men behind the curtains. Keep having stupid gender wars, diaspora wars, watch that ass on ig, do that stupid dance on tick tock, and focus on canceling people.
 

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Fam, none of the Arab countries give a flying fukk about Palestinians cause they don’t trust them. Which is fukked up but they burned the Lebanese, Jordanians, and Egyptians over and over again. The Kuwaitis even kicked out Palestinians for supporting Saddam.

They fear islamist groups exploiting the refugee populations and creating another movement like Al Qaeda and ISIS and after things like Black September, they fear threats to their own governments


 

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You're making an assumption, we don't know that. History has shown time and time again, Money and power corrupts all.

Chinese, Russia, North Korea, and India shyt on their own people. Their own kind.

Black Americans in Africa wouldnt be dealing with racism, but theres the possibilities we'd still be dealing with tribalism, rich vs poor, high taxes, high COL, etc.

Anywhere where people exist, there will be issues but stable government and infrastructure like we have in the west, reduces the greater impact on society. Knowing you’ve been born in a country where you’re the product of slavery and colonialism will never be the better option if all things were equal.

Tribalism, wealth inequality, taxes, etc is always going to exist in a capitalist society. These issues not happening only exist in a socialist’s utopia.
 

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Such a privileged take lol

The happiest countries are in the west

The greatest modern inventions(cars, planes, vaccines, etc.) come from the west

The most robust economies are in the west


A lot of other countries wouldn't even allow her to speak like this
 

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Anywhere where people exist, there will be issues but stable government and infrastructure like we have in the west, reduces the greater impact on society. Knowing you’ve been born in a country where you’re the product of slavery and colonialism will never be the better option if all things were equal.

Tribalism, wealth inequality, taxes, etc is always going to exist in a capitalist society. These issues not happening only exist in a socialist’s utopia.

You say that, meanwhile there's children in sweatshops, slaves in Dubai, and employees making pennies in unsafe conditions in India.



The countries I listed aren't under capitalism. Why are you talking as if Capitalism is the only system that fuked people over? Communism, Dictatorship, and Socialism have bodied billions too.
 

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You say that, meanwhile there's children in sweatshops, slaves in Dubai, and employees making pennies in unsafe conditions in India.



The countries I listed aren't under capitalism. Why are you talking as if Capitalism is the only system that fuked people over? Communism, Dictatorship, and Socialism have bodied billions too.

Dubai and India are definitely capitalist countries though and I already agreed that anywhere where people exist, there will be problems because people are tribal, selfish, violent, etc so I’m not attributing these problems to just capitalism.

Just because nowhere is a utopia, that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t show their displeasure with the issues and immoral governments of western countries.
 

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OK,

Since you want to talk money,
Who says it's a bad thing?

OK,

Since you want to talk money,

The West gives Men and Women the opportunity to provide and build for their family. How is that a bad thing? People can come over and get grants, loans, safe work environments, workers rights, etc.


Can't do that in North Korea, Russia, China, India, or Middle East.
People go wherever they can get money. That's why Russia is the second country for immigration in the world...

It does not mean Russia is the second best civilization in the world.
 
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