AlainLocke
Banned
Obama, I think was the Perfect Negro. Like he is peak Perfect Negro. He is the White person's ideal Black person.
Here you have this Black man...that tells White people...
"Hey, let's work together. Let's put the past behind us. We can work for the betterment of the country."
And White people spat in their hand and slapped the shyt out of Obama.
The life lesson I learned from Obama is...
Sometimes you have to be antagonistic and oppositional to gain respect from yourself and others
If you are in a Us vs. Them situation...sometimes you gonna have to be the Us or the Them because some people just ain't gonna compromise.
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A lot of situations I think as Black folks we try to be all..."Hey, lets work it out..." because we don't wanna be a stereotype. I think the history of Black people in the USA is full of "Hey, let's figure this out..." situations.
I asked my momma one time..."How come Obama just won't stand up for himself..."
She was like..."Well...if he do that, he's an angry Black man..."
You ask a lot of Black Obama supporters...it's full of..."Well what you want him to do...", "He can't do this because he's Black...", "White people gonna stereotype him..."
I rather be someone's opponent than somebody's victim. If I gotta fulfill someone's perception of me, someone's stereotype, someone's antagonistic narrative...then so be it....
Cause let's be real...life is lived through narratives...people live life through narratives...instead of actual reality...and every once in a while we step out of character and the plot and view the real world.
And when you extend yourself to compromise...you are saying..."Let's stop this narrative and step into actual reality."
A lot of people ain't down for that...
Thanks Obama for the 8 years.
Here you have this Black man...that tells White people...
"Hey, let's work together. Let's put the past behind us. We can work for the betterment of the country."
And White people spat in their hand and slapped the shyt out of Obama.
The life lesson I learned from Obama is...
Sometimes you have to be antagonistic and oppositional to gain respect from yourself and others
If you are in a Us vs. Them situation...sometimes you gonna have to be the Us or the Them because some people just ain't gonna compromise.
.
A lot of situations I think as Black folks we try to be all..."Hey, lets work it out..." because we don't wanna be a stereotype. I think the history of Black people in the USA is full of "Hey, let's figure this out..." situations.
I asked my momma one time..."How come Obama just won't stand up for himself..."
She was like..."Well...if he do that, he's an angry Black man..."
You ask a lot of Black Obama supporters...it's full of..."Well what you want him to do...", "He can't do this because he's Black...", "White people gonna stereotype him..."
I rather be someone's opponent than somebody's victim. If I gotta fulfill someone's perception of me, someone's stereotype, someone's antagonistic narrative...then so be it....
Cause let's be real...life is lived through narratives...people live life through narratives...instead of actual reality...and every once in a while we step out of character and the plot and view the real world.
And when you extend yourself to compromise...you are saying..."Let's stop this narrative and step into actual reality."
A lot of people ain't down for that...
Thanks Obama for the 8 years.
