@do_i_have_to_give_a_name_: At this point just realized your extremely dense. It's futile explaining to a white man from London what it means to be a black man in Ameroca as he would never understand unless he was one himself.
But I forgot this was the Race Thread where white posters feel they are experts on black people just because they're white and have a few black friends.
As If I don't know more about being black by actually being black, growing up around AAs and Nigerians and actually having to deal with racism throughout my life let alone the time I spend reading articles and books such as the New Jim Crow, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, American Apartheid, etc
I can already tell that any black that has grievances with their conditions in America it's considered self pity and whining to you and that blacks can succeed if they just pull up their bootstraps.
And being black does link you with every black person. It's called Pan Africanism.
Either way this discussion has been about blacks in America not blacks in America who have a shared experience and cultural heritage that comes from being descendants of slaves, families lives changing after 2 Great Migrations, etc.
Which is why things such as Ebonics, Friday, Hip Hop, etc are all things that come with being black even if not every black person is a fan of them. It doesn't make anyone less black if they aren't. Thise are just a few examples of what it means to be black in the US and is not the be all end all. There's more little examples such as two blacks giving each other "the nod" when we spot each other as the only blacks in a group of whites or black parents giving their children "The Talk" due to police brutality being a constant fear in our communities long before Trayvon.
I honestly don't need to argue anymore with some of your statements. It's why I take whites with a grain of salt in The Race Thread. When the discussion gets heated they start pulling out the usual tactics.
A) Mentioning their few token black people that they know as examples of success so therefore their must be no systemic oppression if a few made it despite the fact studies have shown blacks have higher unemployment rates, have the same chance of being college educated and getting a job as a white felon and are less likely to receive call backs if they have black names.
Or how a black college graduate makes the same as a white high school graduate.
B) Dismiss anything that comes from one of the few black posters here about being black only because it hurts their feelings or accused them of being racist when not only am I black but know more blacks from all walks of life than more of this website.
C) Use the term non-white which basically means minorities that aren't black because if they were referring to black people they could've just said it
D) Use any black as complaining about racism as someone who hasn't succeded in life. Boyce Watkins, Claud Anderson, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates, Marc Lamont Hill, Ta-nehisi Coates, Michelle Alexander are all successful blacks who critique white hegemony in the U.S
I've strongly encouraged posters on here to read things such as The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration but all they will say is "it's too long" or any criticism of whites will be seen as "bigoted" or "racist".
As if saying whites don't have a racial identity in the U.S is bigoted when I have numerous posters in this thread say they aren't white they're human. Blacks don't have the privilege of making a statement like that. When Raven Symone made that statement so many blacks laughed at her because for many of us black is an identity along with our religion, ethnicity, etc. To isolate yourself from it is not only disregarding your ancestry but most of your current life.
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