What you say is true, but it won't be heard or accepted as true by most black Americans, I think, until MANY prominent black Americans say it also, and say it publicly and frequently...and work to change the culture that embraces such thinking and acceptance.
It’s starting to happen. When you start to see prominent figures express black fatigue then things will really shift. But that’s a tall order because the term sounds racist on its face.
As an observer from Central Europe, it seems to me that the long-term work of the liberal left is finally starting to bear fruit. For years, they have been very intensively promoting the culture of victimhood, cultural, linguistic and moral relativism, racism (against white people) and in short, everything that these idiots are now drawing from.
The fact that no social media moderates racism at the expense of whites, does not monitor it in any way and does not ban it is blatant. I'm not in favor of censoring it and having some biased journalist then "translate" what they say (and what suits his/hers narrative). Just let their crap be seen, but the double standard is simply unreal and then the audacity to pretend that they don't know why people are becoming more radicalized...
As a church historian I remember reading a complaint from the 1560s that the village elites dont come to church - "and since poor folk put a lot of stock into what the mighty do" they dont come too. If we in the US celebrated crudeness, vulagarity, nastiness - this is what we get. Our two most vocal moral forces are MAGA and WOKE LETFT. Horseshoe effect. We reap what we sow - unfortunately. We need to provide better role models to eachother: white, black, everyone - than the ones we have now.
This is an important essay. Josh of Disaffected podcast also notes this problem.
As someone with some direct black slave ancestry (Barbados) I can say that anyone (blacks too) has a choice about how they choose to think and behave. Booker T had it right. The black Marxists from the 50s and 60s that created this current mess, had it wrong.
Great piece. The habits of 'thinking' among a significant percentage of the 'community' is cause for alarm. As I have been saying for years now. There is a strident difference in how black and white process the world around them. I do not want to believe this, but it is the truth.
As I understand it, 'black fatigue' originates with blacks who are tired of having to deal with 'whiteness.' Whites took back the term to mean sick of dealing with black grievance.
A Japanese researcher (this can be googled) discovered high rates of narcissism in the black population. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Dr. Stacey Patton's essay vilifying Jeff Metcalf for not teaching his sons that "black boys have boundaries" is the perfect example of malignant narcissism.
Narcissists have boundaries. But they don't respect anyone else's.
Deny / Attack / Reverse Victim / Offend. DARVO. That's Patton's essay to a T.
In academia, I am privy to this manipulation. I joined the Faculty of Color group and much of what they discuss is about whether THEY are being treated with the proper amount of respect, with the assumption that they would not be according to the color of their skin. And around and around this goes.
Insofar as this is concerned: "Yes, we can acknowledge the real wounds in black communities, the legitimate grievances, the history of racism blacks have long suffered in this country, the litany of ways our justice system has historically failed our black brothers and sisters, all of it, everything, without having to pretend that this celebration of a child’s death flows from anything resembling moral clarity."
I propose that we stop acknowledging "real wounds in black communities" as something whites caused. I no longer believe that. There is too much evidence to support that segregation was necessary. That the propensity for violence and laziness was there all along. And the more attention paid to their so-called "grievances" the more these narcissists will hold our society hostage.
I'm done.
I was done a long time ago. See my essay "A Buck-Fifty: A Harsh Lesson in Race Relations." Imagine being told by an (all black) administration that a man who has threatened people in your class to the point where people are afraid to come to class still has a right to an education.
What you say is true, but it won't be heard or accepted as true by most black Americans, I think, until MANY prominent black Americans say it also, and say it publicly and frequently...and work to change the culture that embraces such thinking and acceptance.
It’s starting to happen. When you start to see prominent figures express black fatigue then things will really shift. But that’s a tall order because the term sounds racist on its face.
As an observer from Central Europe, it seems to me that the long-term work of the liberal left is finally starting to bear fruit. For years, they have been very intensively promoting the culture of victimhood, cultural, linguistic and moral relativism, racism (against white people) and in short, everything that these idiots are now drawing from.
The fact that no social media moderates racism at the expense of whites, does not monitor it in any way and does not ban it is blatant. I'm not in favor of censoring it and having some biased journalist then "translate" what they say (and what suits his/hers narrative). Just let their crap be seen, but the double standard is simply unreal and then the audacity to pretend that they don't know why people are becoming more radicalized...
As a church historian I remember reading a complaint from the 1560s that the village elites dont come to church - "and since poor folk put a lot of stock into what the mighty do" they dont come too. If we in the US celebrated crudeness, vulagarity, nastiness - this is what we get. Our two most vocal moral forces are MAGA and WOKE LETFT. Horseshoe effect. We reap what we sow - unfortunately. We need to provide better role models to eachother: white, black, everyone - than the ones we have now.
Than you for the piece.
This is an important essay. Josh of Disaffected podcast also notes this problem.
As someone with some direct black slave ancestry (Barbados) I can say that anyone (blacks too) has a choice about how they choose to think and behave. Booker T had it right. The black Marxists from the 50s and 60s that created this current mess, had it wrong.
This recent book by a Canadian author goes into the victim mindset quite deeply: https://markmilke.com/the-victim-cult
Great piece. The habits of 'thinking' among a significant percentage of the 'community' is cause for alarm. As I have been saying for years now. There is a strident difference in how black and white process the world around them. I do not want to believe this, but it is the truth.
As I understand it, 'black fatigue' originates with blacks who are tired of having to deal with 'whiteness.' Whites took back the term to mean sick of dealing with black grievance.
A Japanese researcher (this can be googled) discovered high rates of narcissism in the black population. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Dr. Stacey Patton's essay vilifying Jeff Metcalf for not teaching his sons that "black boys have boundaries" is the perfect example of malignant narcissism.
Narcissists have boundaries. But they don't respect anyone else's.
Deny / Attack / Reverse Victim / Offend. DARVO. That's Patton's essay to a T.
In academia, I am privy to this manipulation. I joined the Faculty of Color group and much of what they discuss is about whether THEY are being treated with the proper amount of respect, with the assumption that they would not be according to the color of their skin. And around and around this goes.
Insofar as this is concerned: "Yes, we can acknowledge the real wounds in black communities, the legitimate grievances, the history of racism blacks have long suffered in this country, the litany of ways our justice system has historically failed our black brothers and sisters, all of it, everything, without having to pretend that this celebration of a child’s death flows from anything resembling moral clarity."
I propose that we stop acknowledging "real wounds in black communities" as something whites caused. I no longer believe that. There is too much evidence to support that segregation was necessary. That the propensity for violence and laziness was there all along. And the more attention paid to their so-called "grievances" the more these narcissists will hold our society hostage.
I'm done.
I was done a long time ago. See my essay "A Buck-Fifty: A Harsh Lesson in Race Relations." Imagine being told by an (all black) administration that a man who has threatened people in your class to the point where people are afraid to come to class still has a right to an education.