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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
Educate himself about what? That while we have white cops killing innocent black men, there are a ton of black men killing each other and perpetuating the stereotype that we are nothing? Our people like to hide what's going on in our community, but it's there. Kendrick's a smart man.
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Those are two completely different issues though. Murder is murder, but there are different reasons why black are killing people and white people are killing black people. The whole #BlackLivesMatter is about race relations in white supremacist America, it shouldn't be derailed by members of our community saying "well, oh we kill each other so how we gonna expect them not to kill us?" It's two completely different topics.
White people and white society aren't going to treat us black people better if we start "respecting ourselves" and "stop killing each other". I have a problem with Kendrick and Pharrell saying things like this as if we're all on equal ground. Black people get a little success and start thinking they beat the system when the rest of the community is still struggling.
Society hate us because
our skin color, and nothing more. And the fact of the matter is that while it is a problem in our community, it's a byproduct of poverty, subpar schools in black areas, the racist War on Drugs - all problems that have affected us via white racist society. It's impossible to address the black community in America without also addressing white people's hand in the way we view the world and the way we view our ourselves.
Because without that, you get people saying things like this:
"This is pivitol to our generation. In an age filled with generational animosity and a black culture of violence, someone needed to step up. In this song, Kendrick is exposing black hypocrisy in blaming the police for having a bad perception of blacks,
when really it is a result of the ongoing gang violence."
