At the start of this John said he thought there would have been more protests if the cops who attacked Tyre had been white, not black. I’d say riotous protests, and wonder how many of us had this thought - like virtually everybody? But virtually no one stated it clearly, not publicly, I bet. In the lead up to the video release, the media was sort of perfunctorily posing the question of what the protest reaction would be, but they weren’t that excited, as if they — often the pushers of racial division, cloaked in ‘important news’ and ‘concern’ — knew it wouldn’t be much. So I expected we’d see what we saw - far milder protests than with Floyd (and going back to Michael Brown), because the bad cops were black. I might be wrong, but I doubt I am.
I was reminded of an older SNL skit. I may not be describing it exactly right, but here’s the gist of what I recall: It was a local news show with 2 hosts, one black and one white, and whenever they’d report some crime or crazy behavior, they’d anxiously wait to see what race the perp was, and if it was the other’s race, they’d exhale with great relief, do a sort of celebratory “winner” display, while the other host would be the “loser”. It went back and forth. I imagined this when I thought of the disappointment felt by those so heavily invested in “winning” by using the right narrative, that of white oppressor harming black victim, except now it was upside down.
I also think the immediate firing and charging of the cops involved may well have helped tamp down the lust for riotous behavior, but I couldn’t help but feel a sort of collective “Damn! Uh oh, hit the pause button.. this does not compute… how do we fix this? How do we blame it on white people?” Although a bit awkward, and less than ideal, it didn’t take long for them to find cover, thanks to their relentless efforts since the Floyd incident to hyper-fertilize the seeds ( already sown), of “systemic racism” into our nation’s consciousness.
One has to ask these anti-racist people if Africans were all angels on earth until white people got to them, which then caused every hardship and bad behavior of theirs to be transferred to collective white guilt forever more. (Hey now, even if mama beat me, that’s because she too was a victim!) Or maybe this ends the day reparations fix everything? Ha! Its gotten to where, given how pervasive this conditioning of white supremacy/systemic racism has become, I have to wonder if the black person infected by it becomes incapable of recognizing that when they are flailing or failing or not feeling good, it's not due to systemic racism, or those evil white people, but instead, hey, welcome to the world. Welcome to the human race! Welcome to a world that's long been quite familiar to many of us, where we experience all sort of insecurities, social anxiety, depression, neurosis, bad hair day blues, flaws, failings, problems of every sort. These are the words we sometimes use to describe ourselves when there’s not a race card to play.
I was thinking the same thing. So I just looked it up and turns out it wasn't that long ago... 2019. We were already pretty far into the ultra-woke tent, just before the 2020 Floyd hyper-fertilization. The explosion. Like, when I googled for it, high on the screen were articles that all gave it kudos, but with a woke take, eg, how the skit cleverly skewered the stereotypical nature of predicting the race of the perp for a particular sort of crime. Is that wrong? Well, if youre a betting person and you'll get paid for the right "stereotypical" prediction, you will acquire quite a pile of money. Like if you live in NYC and watch local news. Violent crime? Robbery? Carjacking? Night after night after night, it is overwhelmingly black ppl doing the crime. This is not unique to New York. But I guess making generalizations based on evidence and experience is likely a white supremacy holdover, soon to be whisked away like punctuality and math and all those other terrible things.
At the start of this John said he thought there would have been more protests if the cops who attacked Tyre had been white, not black. I’d say riotous protests, and wonder how many of us had this thought - like virtually everybody? But virtually no one stated it clearly, not publicly, I bet. In the lead up to the video release, the media was sort of perfunctorily posing the question of what the protest reaction would be, but they weren’t that excited, as if they — often the pushers of racial division, cloaked in ‘important news’ and ‘concern’ — knew it wouldn’t be much. So I expected we’d see what we saw - far milder protests than with Floyd (and going back to Michael Brown), because the bad cops were black. I might be wrong, but I doubt I am.
I was reminded of an older SNL skit. I may not be describing it exactly right, but here’s the gist of what I recall: It was a local news show with 2 hosts, one black and one white, and whenever they’d report some crime or crazy behavior, they’d anxiously wait to see what race the perp was, and if it was the other’s race, they’d exhale with great relief, do a sort of celebratory “winner” display, while the other host would be the “loser”. It went back and forth. I imagined this when I thought of the disappointment felt by those so heavily invested in “winning” by using the right narrative, that of white oppressor harming black victim, except now it was upside down.
I also think the immediate firing and charging of the cops involved may well have helped tamp down the lust for riotous behavior, but I couldn’t help but feel a sort of collective “Damn! Uh oh, hit the pause button.. this does not compute… how do we fix this? How do we blame it on white people?” Although a bit awkward, and less than ideal, it didn’t take long for them to find cover, thanks to their relentless efforts since the Floyd incident to hyper-fertilize the seeds ( already sown), of “systemic racism” into our nation’s consciousness.
One has to ask these anti-racist people if Africans were all angels on earth until white people got to them, which then caused every hardship and bad behavior of theirs to be transferred to collective white guilt forever more. (Hey now, even if mama beat me, that’s because she too was a victim!) Or maybe this ends the day reparations fix everything? Ha! Its gotten to where, given how pervasive this conditioning of white supremacy/systemic racism has become, I have to wonder if the black person infected by it becomes incapable of recognizing that when they are flailing or failing or not feeling good, it's not due to systemic racism, or those evil white people, but instead, hey, welcome to the world. Welcome to the human race! Welcome to a world that's long been quite familiar to many of us, where we experience all sort of insecurities, social anxiety, depression, neurosis, bad hair day blues, flaws, failings, problems of every sort. These are the words we sometimes use to describe ourselves when there’s not a race card to play.
That SNL skit must have been ages ago-before it was infected with Wokeism.
I was thinking the same thing. So I just looked it up and turns out it wasn't that long ago... 2019. We were already pretty far into the ultra-woke tent, just before the 2020 Floyd hyper-fertilization. The explosion. Like, when I googled for it, high on the screen were articles that all gave it kudos, but with a woke take, eg, how the skit cleverly skewered the stereotypical nature of predicting the race of the perp for a particular sort of crime. Is that wrong? Well, if youre a betting person and you'll get paid for the right "stereotypical" prediction, you will acquire quite a pile of money. Like if you live in NYC and watch local news. Violent crime? Robbery? Carjacking? Night after night after night, it is overwhelmingly black ppl doing the crime. This is not unique to New York. But I guess making generalizations based on evidence and experience is likely a white supremacy holdover, soon to be whisked away like punctuality and math and all those other terrible things.