This guy is one of the most controversial people I have seen on YouTube. I don't always agree with him, but he speaks a lot of truth, and it's truth that only black people are allowed to express without being called "racist." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwCCj8Dx-gk
This is not much different from what Chris Rock was saying 20 years ago. The label ****** will be around for as long as people are doing things to earn it, just like the label white trash or thug. Act a certain way, and some people will speak the truth about it, no matter who might be offended. The politically correct terminology is to say something like, "You don't want to go to that place; it's in a bad neighborhood" or "high crime neighborhood" but everybody knows that means "black neighborhood". The guy in the video is not by any means the only black man who is fully aware of this problem and cares about it. Recently, I was waiting downtown for my husband to pick me up. He went by himself to get the car from the parking deck because he said the route was not safe for me. While he was gone, a big black guy who was working as a valet told me that it wasn't even safe for me to be standing there alone on the sidewalk, in front of the restaurant. It was only 8:00 at night. He stood there with me until my ride showed up. This is only a few miles from a shopping mall that was destroyed by political correctness. Local leaders insisted that the security staff should not be allowed to throw more black people out of the mall than white people, or else they would organize a boycott. The problem with this is that black thugs were causing all of the problems at the mall. They couldn't throw out any white people because they weren't breaking any rules. Well, guess what? White people simply stopped going there, and now the best stores are closing down. Before long, the thugs will have their very own empty building. Stupid shit like that doesn't help anybody. True racism is when somebody assumes that every black person is a ******, without knowing anything about them other than their skin color. I can spot a black thug from a block away. Skin color is only one factor. Clothing, mannerisms, and body language tell me a lot.
Wow what an eyeopener Yeah so far I don't see the big deal, as it doesn't even stop there. What kind of new stuff is this Tommy dude saying exactly that makes it seem he's more worthy to take notice of? Because pointing out that black people can get away more easily with racist remarks and behaviour without being perceived as a blatant racist is really nothing new, nor is it rare.
I started to not listen to the whole thing. I'm glad I did. I agree with what Sotomayor says. I hear a lot of racist talk at work, and a little outside of work. I've not been exposed to a lot of conversations with racial content like the kind in the video. Pretty much all of the conversation that I hear around here lumps everyone of a certain race all together, and what is said is pretty hard to take. Edit: By "around here" I mean around where I live.
White folks were not packed into ships,hauled to foreign shores to serve others with about as much freedom as your dog. White folks have seen the predudice that new comers encounter--the Irish, the Italians, etc. But that did not last. They have been fully integrated for decades and decades. White folks did not have to worry about hooded riders dragging them out in the middle of the night to be tortured and hanged. White folks did not have to worry about getting an education if they wanted one and were not punished for wanting to learn to read. White folks did not have any of their family members sold away, never to see them again merely at the whim of an "owner" for economic reasons. White folks did not have to step out off a sidewalk to let someone pass. White folks did not get lynched for looking at black women. White folks could eat in any restaurant and stay in any overnight accommodations whenever and wherever they wanted without being harrassed or possibly killed. White folks have not had to pay reparations as they did for the Japanese whose lives were "inconvienced" for a FEW years. They recieved 20,000 dollars apiece. White folks have not had to depend on gov help to CATCH UP to everyone else. One can go on and on with what back folks have had to endure ever since they were "given the opportunity" to work here. They are mostly confined now--to vast ghettos that hold very little chance from which to excape. Think all this and more just goes away from the psyche of a people that have been judged by appearances for as long as they've been here? I don't like black hoodlums. I don't like white hoodlums. But a white hoodlum can get himself a cute little haicut, dress in some nice clothing and ---voila---acceptance just about anywhere. So in summation: let's jump on the niggers--again.
Some were tricked into immigrating here under false pretenses, to find themselves trapped in the white slavery system of 19th century coal mines and company stores. Many spoke no English There's a historical marker in northern West Virginia marking the spot where more than 300 of them died in a methane gas explosion, in a coal mine that did not follow any reasonable safety practices. Does anybody feel bad for them? Did anybody do anything for their children and grandchildren? I'll "jump on" violent behavior anywhere I find it, no matter who it is, unless it's self defense. In my high school, my black classmates were offered the same education as I was getting. While I was studying my ass off, you know what most of the black males were doing? Focusing on football, and stuffing white boys (including my future husband) into lockers for having the wrong skin color. Do you think nonviolent black men have a right to criticize their peers who do wrong? Do the rest of us have a right to agree with them?
We ran together in my high school. Black, Mexican, white--no problems. Of course--the man has a right to say whatever he wants. The coal mines are a bad example of owners that (some) STILL don't care a whit about their employees. Yes and I mentioned other"races," did I not. And I believe I mentioned--the prejudice towards those I mentioned eventually went away. But they wern't "stuck" with looking black. That's fine if people think that being black automatically makes hoodlums. ( no, nobody said that. But plenty think it.) I think that it's widely known that whatever type of society into which a baby is born--that baby will exhibit the languge, attitudes and world view of that society, leavened by the particular bent of his/her parents. If the ancestors were bent by a society that used them for slave labor, chances are that it follows that there is going to be fallout for generations. Unless you're white. Then you can be disgusted at the way some blacks act because " they should just let it go." I've said my piece and that's enough.
i remember the name from somewhere i can't quite place. doesn't sound much like what i watch you-tube for. prejudice isn't limited to the myth of race. it also applies to ideology and belief, those are two of the biggest one. but there's a million zillion other smaller ones too. what it comes down to, is they're all just excuses for inconsiderateness that have nothing to do with logic.
Look--I AGREE with the guy. It's just that he didn't mention any back story as I tried to do with my paltry list. He could NOT do that because then what would immediately be said--"why don't they just let it go." or--"another whiny black lamenting something that happened long ago."
