Is this an opinion formed out of real world experience or through the lens of conservative media? It would be just as disingenuous to paint a picture of white America by describing a trailer park in Appalachia and pretending it describes white culture.
Glenn is often accused of attracting a white audience who wants to hear him disparage black America and confirm their racism. I believe posts like yours only contribute to that notion. Now that I think about it, it seems so stereotypical that I wonder if you aren't trying to discredit Glenn.
People don't listen to Glenn "to hear him disparage black America". Ever since I was young - decades and decades ago - I was curious as to why black America was so dysfunctional. I have read everything I can to try to understand what is going on and I think many people feel this way as well. I am willing to listen to anyone who who can explain the pathologies but, I will not accept the excuses for bad behavior when every other ethnicity behaves otherwise. I have developed my theories about the dysfunctions - there's enough blame to go around including poorly crafted gov't policies a la The Great Society handouts, affirmative actions, etc. etc. But I can't help but come around to simple 'personal responsibility' and that blacks have to own some part of this dysfunction themselves as well.
I have long felt in a subdued, suppressed, vague sort of way (only rarely given form by what I said), what listening to learned, outspoken black thinkers like Shelby Steele, Robert Woodson, Kmele Foster, John McWhorter, GLENN, and more, have liberated, made crystal clear - that "The Great Society handouts, affirmative actions, etc" have really taken us down a twisted, thorny path. That includes what has followed, to date, to keep the myth of their goodness going, to keep them in place and expand upon them.
My husband is a white man who is not a racist - married me (a tribal member), for example. Yesterday, he was scrolling through social somewhere and caught an Instagram post where two black men in a car are having an ordinary conversation as they drive somewhere. A third black man "rolls up" on them and one of the two in the car shoots him dead for "disrespecting" him. I'm sure there's more to the story. My husband, who grew up in a Staten Island neighborhood of mostly black and Puerto Ricans during the bussing era and then spent several years in Ossining (where a lot of brown corrections officers and their families live) is certain there's more to the story too. But that's a view of black urban culture that is often on full display in common culture (and reflects on what Glenn was saying about the prevalence of crime and violence in the black community). And then if you listen to the lyrics of rap music, it's so often focused on the "gangsta" lifestyle - hanging with the hommies, beating your bitches, drivebys, etc. that it's easy to get the impression that this is the majority of black culture. I know it's no more that than country music's concentration on unrequited love and pickup trucks is indicative of white rural Americans' entire culture, but if that's all you know, that's all you know. And, of course, if you're a truly informed person, we've just spent a year watching black people loot (often) black-owned businesses after white wokesters sets nearby businesses on fire, so again -- easy to get that impression unless you seek out broader news sources.
I was in a taxi driving through Times Square (NY) several weeks ago, We stopped at a stop light., I looked out my window and actually witnessed a black guy pop off another black guy and knock him out cold. The guy that was out just drifted to the ground. A few people walked up to him to see if they could wake him - and then we sped off. Who knows if he died or not. You see stuff like this on TV but not in real life...until I did.
Charleyx seems to be referring to ‘black urban culture’….just in the news this week ‘child gang warfare’ in the Bronx where 13 year olds are getting killed. Ditto Chicago, St. Louis etc
Yes, he is speaking some tough truths (that are consigned to the taboo vault in the public square, so they kind of beg to be aired), but they would fly better without using a word like "bastards". Someone else on here used "Negroes"... Using words like this are disrespectful and unkind to black people, and to others as well, but first and foremost to Glenn who has so uniquely given so much of value to our public square.
Is this an opinion formed out of real world experience or through the lens of conservative media? It would be just as disingenuous to paint a picture of white America by describing a trailer park in Appalachia and pretending it describes white culture.
Glenn is often accused of attracting a white audience who wants to hear him disparage black America and confirm their racism. I believe posts like yours only contribute to that notion. Now that I think about it, it seems so stereotypical that I wonder if you aren't trying to discredit Glenn.
People don't listen to Glenn "to hear him disparage black America". Ever since I was young - decades and decades ago - I was curious as to why black America was so dysfunctional. I have read everything I can to try to understand what is going on and I think many people feel this way as well. I am willing to listen to anyone who who can explain the pathologies but, I will not accept the excuses for bad behavior when every other ethnicity behaves otherwise. I have developed my theories about the dysfunctions - there's enough blame to go around including poorly crafted gov't policies a la The Great Society handouts, affirmative actions, etc. etc. But I can't help but come around to simple 'personal responsibility' and that blacks have to own some part of this dysfunction themselves as well.
I have long felt in a subdued, suppressed, vague sort of way (only rarely given form by what I said), what listening to learned, outspoken black thinkers like Shelby Steele, Robert Woodson, Kmele Foster, John McWhorter, GLENN, and more, have liberated, made crystal clear - that "The Great Society handouts, affirmative actions, etc" have really taken us down a twisted, thorny path. That includes what has followed, to date, to keep the myth of their goodness going, to keep them in place and expand upon them.
My husband is a white man who is not a racist - married me (a tribal member), for example. Yesterday, he was scrolling through social somewhere and caught an Instagram post where two black men in a car are having an ordinary conversation as they drive somewhere. A third black man "rolls up" on them and one of the two in the car shoots him dead for "disrespecting" him. I'm sure there's more to the story. My husband, who grew up in a Staten Island neighborhood of mostly black and Puerto Ricans during the bussing era and then spent several years in Ossining (where a lot of brown corrections officers and their families live) is certain there's more to the story too. But that's a view of black urban culture that is often on full display in common culture (and reflects on what Glenn was saying about the prevalence of crime and violence in the black community). And then if you listen to the lyrics of rap music, it's so often focused on the "gangsta" lifestyle - hanging with the hommies, beating your bitches, drivebys, etc. that it's easy to get the impression that this is the majority of black culture. I know it's no more that than country music's concentration on unrequited love and pickup trucks is indicative of white rural Americans' entire culture, but if that's all you know, that's all you know. And, of course, if you're a truly informed person, we've just spent a year watching black people loot (often) black-owned businesses after white wokesters sets nearby businesses on fire, so again -- easy to get that impression unless you seek out broader news sources.
I was in a taxi driving through Times Square (NY) several weeks ago, We stopped at a stop light., I looked out my window and actually witnessed a black guy pop off another black guy and knock him out cold. The guy that was out just drifted to the ground. A few people walked up to him to see if they could wake him - and then we sped off. Who knows if he died or not. You see stuff like this on TV but not in real life...until I did.
Charleyx seems to be referring to ‘black urban culture’….just in the news this week ‘child gang warfare’ in the Bronx where 13 year olds are getting killed. Ditto Chicago, St. Louis etc
Yes, he is speaking some tough truths (that are consigned to the taboo vault in the public square, so they kind of beg to be aired), but they would fly better without using a word like "bastards". Someone else on here used "Negroes"... Using words like this are disrespectful and unkind to black people, and to others as well, but first and foremost to Glenn who has so uniquely given so much of value to our public square.