How did black Americans become the most hated group in the U.S?

[RhodyRum]

I understand especially with the bolded however I feel in order for this to meet its full standard African American history most be taught to our people in all its complexities from the trans Atlantic slave trade and it’s atrocities, reconstruction, Jim Crow, redlining, and the infiltration of crack in the Afro American community. Knowledge of self can take people a long way.

No team can be strong if the individual components ain't strong themselves. There may be no "I" in "TEAM," but there sure as hell is an "M" and an "E."

We can kick all that "knowledge of self" and "pass the history down" stuff all we want, but until each individual (or at least the overwhelming majority of us) buys into perpetual self-improvement, all that shıt is just rhetoric.

Growing up, I did my part. I listened. I learned. I absorbed. I synthesized. I understood. And eventually I succeeded (with a major credit going towards my parents and brothers for their help). Along the way I tried my best to help anyone, and to this day my entire circle of friends are high-academic, high achieving Black Men. I did whatever I could to see to it that I wasn't going to surround myself with mediocrity and crabs. Yes it's HARD work, but it's literally all we (as in every human) have in this society we've set up for ourselves.

Along the way, I encountered much too much of the "other side." Lazy, stupid, unambitious, Black folk with shıtty value systems who were preaching that street life degenracy shıt from Day 1, and most assuredly because that was the environment they grew up in. Never had a chance to achieve while also eschewing anyone that tried to extend to them that opportunity for uplifting.

What are we supposed to do with that lot? As someone who can sincerely say he grew up in and gave the effort to give back to the hood, there comes a point in your life when you realize life is too short to sacrifice it on others who are content to wallow in the gutter. If the resistance to uplifting wasn't so heavy, if the willingness to make those changes to improve wasn't locked away within themselves, if there was more open-mindedness to the world outside of "the hood," if there were more of us who could identify with that winner in us that unfortunately slumbers within ignorance, I'd be more than happy to sacrifice more. The ignorance and small-mindedness (and even worse, the complacency) wears a man down.

As Nas said back in 2001: "I can't hold your hand through the struggle."

Eventually, YOU (the individual) have to wake up, humble yourself, and seek that "knowledge of self and elevation" stuff that everyone loves to throw around. The leaders will lead when there are people to lead. The alarm clock may beep incessantly, but it's the person themself who needs to get up out of bed and make the decision to face the day. However, the weak must be culled at some point for us to advance.

Is this attitude exclusive to only Black folk? Obviously hell nah. I know a crapload of useless people of all colors and creeds. Our problem is the percentage of those who identify and are comfortable with these shıtty conditions that we have faced, still face, and will continue to face in the future.

 

[O.Red]

Ehh . Nyggas should start putting hands on them,give them a reason to fear us.they scared anyway

Can't put hands on everybody

The strongest hands are invisible

 

[RhodyRum]

You know the best way to get better media representation?

You create your own. Black folks refuse to acknowledge this issue and prefer to beg for better representation and good intentions from white people

It can only come from us. There is no better outcome otherwise

No argument from me on that front, pahtna.

 

[The Fade]

Can't put hands on everybody

The strongest hands are invisible

And so we must ‘perceive the invisible’, guess musashi had a point in that regard.

You right, there’s just some shyt you gotta do yourself. And If you can’t do the art representation yourself, you can always commission your vision and contract others who can. Surround our environments with said representation and change the perception of ourselves, for the kids growing up in it.

 

[desjardins]

wrong thread

 

[O.Red]

And so we must ‘perceive the invisible’, guess musashi had a point in that regard.

You right, there’s just some shyt you gotta do yourself. And If you can’t do the art representation yourself, you can always commission your vision and contract others who can. Surround our environments with said representation and change the perception of ourselves, for the kids growing up in it.

Look at how Korea's popularity and social footprint has exploded in the last decade. Kpop stars selling out US arena's, Korean TV shows being watched in the states, a general export of their own brand of cool

Seems trivial on the surface but this shyt matters and fleshes out my overall point. A group must take their image, perception, and soft power attributes into their own hands or be at the mercy of the hands they sit in

 

[invalid]

You know the best way to get better media representation?

You create your own. Black folks refuse to acknowledge this issue and prefer to beg for better representation and good intentions from white people

It can only come from us. There is no better outcome otherwise

Black creatives can also say "we're not going to do this".

But black people selling their community out for money is a tale as old as time.

 

[EndGame]

Look at that chink depict a South Korean as blonde hair and blue eyes. That should tell you all you need to know.

 

[Cat piss martini]

We were the 1st people making
(US) the creation in God's image.
Our sperm and Wombs could change
the face of this planet and white people
fear the truth in that.
We are (natural) natures favorite and they are
a (unatural) mutation or the original people.
They are lucifarian spawn and they are here
to enslave,disrupt and damn manking before
the thousands years are up.
They know that their time is up
and will lay waste to this planet on the way out.

 

[Lannister]

Slavery, Jim Crow, global propaganda.

This current surge of hatred tho is mostly due to us violently rocking the table this decade, and us finally causing other groups to start rocking their own as well. We manage to turn the magnifying glass onto White folks, and now they know how it feels to be scrutinized and criticized as a collective...and they don't like it lol.

 

[I Really Mean It]

I’m serious because it doesn’t make any sense to me how every none afram group has a specific slur just for us. I mean you can say it’s all ingrained white supremacy but it’s gotta be deeper than that surely? We haven’t committed anywhere near the high level of crimes against humanity as other groups have yet and still we’re seen as the sons and daughter of satan lol. I’m really puzzled by this and need answers please.

jealousy. we drive popular culture - fashion, music, language. we dominate every major sport. our men are viewed as more virile than those of other races.

despite being at the bottom, we are still at the top, and they hate this. there is no other group of people, in the history of mankind, who has had as much influence on global culture as african americans. one might say the european or american white, but that came at the barrel of a gun, imposed on unwilling populations.

black americans have shaped the zeitgeist by simply being.

 

[Givethanks]

AAs are cool as shyt,

I live in Canada though, you're basically worshipped here, I can see ppl hating because of the jealousy tho..

Low key think the most hated in America are Somalis.

 

[Zostrianos]

 

[BlackJesus]

I’m serious because it doesn’t make any sense to me how every none afram group has a specific slur just for us. I mean you can say it’s all ingrained white supremacy but it’s gotta be deeper than that surely? We haven’t committed anywhere near the high level of crimes against humanity as other groups have yet and still we’re seen as the sons and daughter of satan lol. I’m really puzzled by this and need answers please.

Because it’s schoolyard bully behavior. We are seen as weaker than those groups and an easier target. Notice how the more powerful the group (whites, jews) the more people stay quiet about them.

There’s a valuable lesson here: don’t be weak. Do everything possible to strengthen your group and raise your position.

Also nikkas like bringing attention to themselves for better or for worse

 

[Neuromancer]

We need to have a talk about these K-pop weirdos.