Elite white virtue-signalers who want to impose ‘identity’ on Blacks have never experienced the stinking misery of ethnicity. They get their genes done and take up ethnicity as a hobby. I come from a white working-class shithole city, Paterson, NJ, where everyone was ethnically tagged, everyone ‘took care of their own’, and the very idea that anyone should do anything for a ‘perfect stranger’—someone who wasn’t a member of their extended family or ethnic group—was incomprehensible.
_Roots_ was an attempt to make transform ‘African-American’, from a caste to a normal ethnic group comparable to ‘Italian-American’, ‘Irish-American’, and other hyphenated 'identities' replacing malignant racism with benign soft racism. Elites, who never experienced the malignant hyphenated Americanism that dominated shithole cities like my hometown didn’t get it.
When I went to college in the Midwest, where ethnicity wasn’t a thing I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. ‘Identity’ where it is REAL, not just a hobby, sucks.
Elite white virtue-signalers who want to impose ‘identity’ on Blacks have never experienced the stinking misery of ethnicity. They get their genes done and take up ethnicity as a hobby. I come from a white working-class shithole city, Paterson, NJ, where everyone was ethnically tagged, everyone ‘took care of their own’, and the very idea that anyone should do anything for a ‘perfect stranger’—someone who wasn’t a member of their extended family or ethnic group—was incomprehensible.
_Roots_ was an attempt to make transform ‘African-American’, from a caste to a normal ethnic group comparable to ‘Italian-American’, ‘Irish-American’, and other hyphenated 'identities' replacing malignant racism with benign soft racism. Elites, who never experienced the malignant hyphenated Americanism that dominated shithole cities like my hometown didn’t get it.
When I went to college in the Midwest, where ethnicity wasn’t a thing I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. ‘Identity’ where it is REAL, not just a hobby, sucks.