the issue is the blatant disrespect.. don't tweet how you understand one second and then totally dismiss everything you just cosigned with the we are all the same bs. Technically true or not...that is not the world we live in.
the issue is the blatant disrespect.. don't tweet how you understand one second and then totally dismiss everything you just cosigned with the we are all the same bs. Technically true or not...that is not the world we live in.
Right we don't live in that world. Re-reading those tweets, I can see it from your point of view.
Black people did not ask to be brought to the United States. They were brought here against their will - they were used to build a nation with their blood, sweat and tears. Asking them to go back to where they came from is not only insulting and disgusting, but it's also highly ignorant of the black history in this country.
Black people do not actually have a record of where in Africa they came from. There are many different nations and tribes, and when they were brought to the United States, their families were broken up. There are very few African-Americans who can say where their people came from in Africa because their families were so broken up, they do not know where they originated from.
Black people continue to be angry because they helped to build this nation just as much as any white person did. Y'all conveniently forget that when white people got to the United States, there were people here before they were - and when they needed work to be done, they brought black people to do it for them. Much of this empire was built on the backs of African slaves - why should their descendants not prosper from this country as much as the descendants of their tormentors?
As for the notion that black people have achieved true freedom since then, that notion is false. It was only fifty years ago, that black people were supposedly given the "privilege" of even being in the same room as white people and access to the same services white people received freely. In the face of all that, we still have a nation where the murder of black people by their public servants is permitted without consequence. Black people are also still targeted and given harsher sentences when it comes to jail.
And all of this because some people have this perception that black people are lesser because they have a darker complexion - something that is only the cause of having some more melanin, some more protection against the sun.
Why do people continue to whine about black people standing up for themselves in a nation where black people are never given the help afforded to white people? As for other races, they may feel free to stand up and speak for themselves. You would not demand a person with cancer advocate for people with HIV - why demand black people to stop speaking for themselves and give their voice to other races? I would also point out that this nation did not utilize Asian and Latino slaves the way they did black slaves. That doesn't change anything with regards to how they should be treated, but I would just point out that this nation white people think they built on their own? Yeah, they had an idea of what they wanted it to be - but they used black hands and black tears and black sweat and the blood of black people to get the job done. Now white people don't wanna give black people the dues they deserve. And still y'all call this a land of the free, a home of the brave and promise liberty and justice for all? You only promise those things to white people and everyone else gets left in the dust.
"No rice, no spice, no chocolate" ATRL talking about "we are all the same."
I'm black though I agree with what Jesse is saying but we have to stop viewing it as us vs them. Justin is not like Ted Nugent people need to leave him alone. Y'all need to be going after Ted, Donald and Glen Beck them those are the people who Jesse is talking about