"I am not black , we are not black , don't call me that"

[Barnett114]

Video is corny but as quiet as it's kept, the concept of blackness hasn't done us any favors. Apart from certain trivial cultural elements like our music, blackness is generally seen as a negative, the opposite end of a spectrum that puts whiteness on the positive end. A spectrum created by white supremacists.

Putting Jamaicans, Haitians, Nigerians, Kenyans, Aframs, etc all under this same umbrella term even though the term itself is rooted in troublesome notions of racial hierarchy (with black at the bottom) doesn't seem to be working for us. Great civilizations have crumbled once whites forced said societies to internalize the idea of their 'blackness' - Ethiopia for instance, one of the greatest civilizations in human history now essentially reduced to a wasteland.

I think 'blacks' would be much better off if we were defined by our cultures (Sudanese culture, Ghanaian culture, etc) instead of being defined by this all encompassing idea of blackness rooted in phenotype.

Thats why when people mention 'countries', they mention Africa, even though it's a continent. They say China, Russia, India, Italy and then say 'Africa'. Once you can define 1 billion people under a single term, you better hope the term isn't rooted in anything negative, or all 1 billion people are in some way, fukked.

So we basically gotta do one of two things; do away with the word black all together and pick a better word, 'Melanoid' or something else so we can rebrand...or we can simply use the power of resources and media to convince the world it's whiteness that is on the negative end. Either way, action has to be taken.

 

[SadimirPutin]

to be honest how sheltered do you have to be as a black person to believe a pile of c*ntery like this

 

[Blackout]

I am not male...I just drive a body that comes with the optional penis attachment. Now excuse me while I use the female change/rest room because I don't believe in your fictitious "lables"...

 

[MewTwo]

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

These new nikkas are a fukking trip

 

[Gold]

I am not male...I just drive a body that comes with the optional penis attachment. Now excuse me while I use the female change/rest room because I don't believe in your fictitious "lables"...

People wanna be colorblind and genderblind so bad. But when they try to logically support it... they end up sounding either very naive, or very

 

[TheDarkskinnedDrake]

You're not black you're c00n

 

[plushcarpet]

 

[Gravity]

NO one is saying the system doesnt exist, the video is merely stating that if no system was there we wouldn't be said labels, which is true. If NASA didn't name said stars, they'd be balls of gas with no name. nothing more nothing less.

So what's the point then?

 

[Gold]

Ding ding. A system created the label. NO system no label dummy. Prior to the system were you black? no, you were just whatever tribe you were from, what he is making apparent is that you are following an artificial label, which you are. YOU are not black when the system is not around, you are just you. How the fukk can you not comprehend this? Is the Matrix this strong?

You destroyed your own argument in this post... and you don't even realize it.
I highlighted the bold so you can pinpoint exactly where you made everyone else's point for them.

Labels have existed since the dawn of man. Labels are about as "artificial" (as you put) as language itself.

You act as though the label "black" has any less relevance, meaning, significance than "Igbo, Anambre, Zulu, Man, Woman."

You act as though when "the system is not around" that labels do not exist


Let me break this down in a way that everyone can understand.

• Labels will exist as long as there is more than 1 human being alive. As long as there are 2 people who are not completely identical to each other, there will be labels used to point out the differences. As long as not everyone in the world is the same skin tone, you will be black.

• Self-appointed Labels are not inherently a bad thing. As I said above, labels are integral with language itself. Solidarity and strength can be found in labels. A strong black woman is a label. We cannot have a black community if we cannot even find solidarity in our own race. Also if I label something to show that I am not part of it, I am also in turn labelling myself to show that we are not one in the same. Example, a white person cannot say shyt about "black people" without, by virtue of that statement, admitting that he is not black.

• We didn't need white people to teach us how to be black. This one kills me. You remedials in here always stay on this shyt about "Africans didn't know any better until the white man started calling them black" FUKK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT NONSENSE. Africans knew damn well that they were very different than white people. You acting like brehs couldn't tell the difference between them and a white man prior to Jim Crow laws. The only difference is white people used these differences as a means to degrade us, but we use these differences as a means to uplift ourselves and promote our excellence. I don't want white looks, white hair, white features, white skin. Those tactics don't work on proud black people (oh look, another label)
• This mindset only helps white people. Despite what any white person passionately declares and exclaims in a 2 minute video... they know they are still fukking white . At the end of the day, you shedding all of your labels doesn't make you any less susceptible to Systematic Oppression, Corporate racism, police brutality. These realities are not reliant upon whether or not you believe them or not. A cop doesn't need you to sign an affidavit saying "I am really black" for him to discriminate against you.

I could go on but you get the gist... i hope

 

[PikaDaDon]

This line of thinking seems to be the hot new thing with these new age, pretentious, millenial hipsters. Many of you may remember the famous Raven Symone interview where she says, "I'm not an African-American. Don't call me that". Seems like alot of today's kids are adopting this dangerous ideology of rejecting labels. It is profoundly psychologically damaging to reject who you are, and in many cases it's considered a mental illness. A black person is a black person. A white person is a white person. That is who you are so deal with it.

 

[Mwrex]

5/5 on a scale of

 

[CACtain Planet]

Answer the fukking question.

The point of the video isn't colourblind it's that labels are superficial. They are created, which they fukking are. You aren't born with a name, you are given one.

Blacks were still enslaved before race was even a concept

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

This isn't the 1st time this video has been posted on here.

These "new blacks" think shyt is all sweet until they get that wake up call. Try that "I'm not black" sh*t somewhere in some hick town in the south.

 

[NoChillJones]

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You weren't systematically taught you were black? Prior to races discovering each other what were you called?

Negus, Negro which means black.