Sports Analyst, Emmanuel Acho, says being non-FBA means he doesn't have "generational trauma" and he can speak with no "sting" to white people.

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Yeah. We are. The affirmative action regime and other forms of selective-minority advantage programs have effectively been neutered and suppressed. Its over.

We’re in the “racial blindness”/meritocratic age. Now it’s really about who you know and what you can do, to that extent.

So yeah, what worked in the Obama era won’t work now.

Smarten up.

Acho is annoying as fukk but black Americans will need to evolve their thinking on identity and solidarity and advancement going forward. The world isn’t going to wait any longer.
What’s up with you Indians thinking white people will stop being racist? :mjlol:

Vivek ramaswamy, kath Patel, and now you.

Also, speaking about black Americans in the third person :patrice:
 

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Him being dumb ass fukk and unqualified to talk doesn’t make him NOT Black.

That’s dumb as fukk

Theres more diversity IN africa than OUTSIDE of africa.

Is this the game you want to play?


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well, this is the thing and maybe both of y’all missed part of my previous posts

Like I posted, to pretty much paraphrase what he said a few years ago was. …. that him and his brother sam who does college football on ESPN are from Dallas Texas and he personally never knew or understood the black community until he got to the NFL

now all of a sudden, he’s on this black shyt
which essentially means he must’ve never thought he was black until he got to the pros and all I’m trying to say is he should keep the same energy before he made it into the league
 

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Whats the discussion we’re having here? That Acho is tone deaf to black history or that he doesn’t want black trauma to be used as an excuse for failure?

which is it?
The former and the reason he’s tone deaf is because he, like you are not us. Immigrants and children of immigrants experiences are different here and therefore your relationships and perspectives of this country aren’t going to align with ours on certain things. That’s cool, what’s not cool is misrepresentation.

Mfs like you and him remind of the dudes at the stoplights with the windex who start wiping your car without permission. We didn’t ask you to clean our windshields nor do we need you to.

:camby:
 

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The former and the reason he’s tone deaf is because he, like you are not us. Immigrants and children of immigrants experiences are different here and therefore your relationships and perspectives of this country aren’t going to align with ours on certain things. That’s cool, what’s not cool is misrepresentation.

Mfs like you and him remind of the dudes at the stoplights with the windex who start wiping your car without permission. We didn’t ask you to clean our windshields nor do we need you to.

:camby:
When did he claim to speak for black Americans?
 

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When did he claim to speak for black Americans?
the context you're missing is that Emmanual Acho has a podcast called "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" when he calls himself discussing race with with white Americans. He portrays himself as some kind of more palatable version of a black man compared to black americans. So he sits around with white people easing THEIR minds about their racist views.

He wasn't just saying "I don't have the racial history black americans have so when i talk to white people it's doesn't have that context"...he's saying "white people like me more, and i want them to like me more, and i'm a better representative of blackness in america than multigenerational black americans". It's extremely c00nish.

Even if he didn't say it to Van Lathan, it's still c00nish.

from his website:
Being Black in America isn’t the same as being Black American.
 

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Being Black in America isn’t the same as being Black American.
Acho wasn’t speaking for all black people. He was literally talking about his experience with race and identity. Yall took that to mean that he was assuming the mantle for all black people.

The problem again, is that Acho is an unlikable clown, but I dont recall him actually speaking for everyone.
 

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Acho wasn’t speaking for all black people. He was literally talking about his experience with race and identity. Yall took that to mean that he was assuming the mantle for all black people.

The problem again, is that Acho is an unlikable clown, but I dont recall him actually speaking for everyone.
A portion of his synopsis of the podcast…

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, is a safe place to have the uncomfortable conversations about race that many white people have never been able to have. But enough is enough- I want to remove the barriers for why we’ve never had these conversations. I want to provide a free space for curious white people to answer the questions they’ve always had but have been too nervous to ask. Like, “How can I have white privilege if I’m not wealthy?”, or “is racial profiling ok if black people tend to commit more crimes”, or my personal favorite from a 19-year-old girl from rural Alabama named Amy who asked, “if black people can say the ‘N’ word, why can’t I?” And many, many more.

:martin:

fukk outta here with the semantics. He and you know exactly what he’s doing. Why that big c00n ain’t discussing Akata usage with that sun dodger cac from Alabama? Same playbook that lil maggot bytch Candace Owens uses.
 

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A portion of his synopsis of the podcast…

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, is a safe place to have the uncomfortable conversations about race that many white people have never been able to have. But enough is enough- I want to remove the barriers for why we’ve never had these conversations. I want to provide a free space for curious white people to answer the questions they’ve always had but have been too nervous to ask. Like, “How can I have white privilege if I’m not wealthy?”, or “is racial profiling ok if black people tend to commit more crimes”, or my personal favorite from a 19-year-old girl from rural Alabama named Amy who asked, “if black people can say the ‘N’ word, why can’t I?” And many, many more.

:martin:

fukk outta here with the semantics. He and you know exactly what he’s doing. Why that big c00n ain’t discussing Akata usage with that sun dodger cac from Alabama? Same playbook that lil maggot bytch Candace Owens uses.
Acho is a black man in the United States. Period. His background is different.

if you dont want certain black men to speak, say that.

But his perspective is gonna remain what it will and you have to engage him on those merits, not his identity.
 
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