I agree entirely with Colin. Black people are being horribly oppressed in this country...by gang violence. August was Chicago's most violent period in 20 years. There was just a shooting at a "Love Thy Neighbor" event in Brighton.
This oppression by gangs on black communities has got to stop, and thus I completely support Colin protesting the oppression of black people and neigborhoods by drug trafficking robbers, who turn black neighborhoods into self-imposed warzones. Luckily Colin is focusing on the #1 source of black oppression, needless gang violence, that kills far more blacks per year than the cops do. So I congratulate you Colin on your stance. Most blacks are afraid to confront gang violence out of fear of being labelled an "uncle Tom," but you actively protest it on live national television, and thus i can only salute you.
So we must support Colins battle against the oppression of black people by the nation's gang violence. People criticising him for calling out gangs are ridiculous IMO.
And for those who say blacks don't get away with murders-
Cops shoot black kid: Condemnation and national protest from blacks
Black gang member (Chief Keef) shoots black kid (and brags about it): Multi-million record deal and national fandom from blacks
And you wonder why white people view us as hypocrites.....
That's the whole thing. I don't view myself as "black". I'm just a human being who, due to the environmental conditions of my ancestors, has increased melanin in my skin to stay out in the sun longer. I don't divide myself into social constructs like "race", because race has no bearing on my status as a human being. Being human is what I take pride in. Not black pride. Human pride. And that means recognizing that all "races" (and nationalities and religions) have served as both the oppressor and the oppressed throughout history. That has nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with our primal human nature to be tribalistic, but being a human, I refuse to stoop to such primal animalistic instincts and will rather embrace my higher humanity, as being a human able to comprehend and enjoy the beauty of our world is the ultimate gift.
What people need to understand is that behind race, nationality, religion, etc. there are only 2 kinds of people who have EVER existed, those who embrace the human spirit by protecting the powerless, and those who embrace human nature by preying on the powerless. This is the only division that truly matters and the world's various ideologies are essentially used as excuses to embrace either the human spirit or human nature.
That's why there are good whites and bad whites, blacks who serve their communities and blacks who exploit their communities, Christians/Muslims who provide humanitarian aid and Christians/Muslims who are homophobic misogynists. Rich people who are philanthropists and rich people who are greedy.
Im the end it's the evil of human nature vs the good of the human spirit. Everything else is just a distraction from that.
This isn't a battle of white vs black. This is the battle between human nature and the human spirit. And as long as we divide ourselves, our primal human nature will always win and we will never advance as a species.
*SMH*
Now this black man was shot for not holding a door open for some b*tch at McDonalds.
Also women fight for equality and then some pull shit like this. Also when they show only the victim, but no picture of the killers..well, I think we know what that usually means.
Originally posted by Lestov16Excellent post, totally with you on this. The sooner we stop hanging so closely to divisive labels the better. Will that happen though? Probably not. We'll probably extinct the **** out of ourselves before then.
That's the whole thing. I don't view myself as "black". I'm just a human being who, due to the environmental conditions of my ancestors, has increased melanin in my skin to stay out in the sun longer. I don't divide myself into social constructs like "race", because race has no bearing on my status as a human being. Being human is what I take pride in. Not black pride. Human pride. And that means recognizing that all "races" (and nationalities and religions) have served as both the oppressor and the oppressed throughout history. That has nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with our primal human nature to be tribalistic, but being a human, I refuse to stoop to such primal animalistic instincts and will rather embrace my higher humanity, as being a human able to comprehend and enjoy the beauty of our world is the ultimate gift.What people need to understand is that behind race, nationality, religion, etc. there are only 2 kinds of people who have EVER existed, those who embrace the human spirit by protecting the powerless, and those who embrace human nature by preying on the powerless. This is the only division that truly matters and the world's various ideologies are essentially used as excuses to embrace either the human spirit or human nature.
That's why there are good whites and bad whites, blacks who serve their communities and blacks who exploit their communities, Christians/Muslims who provide humanitarian aid and Christians/Muslims who are homophobic misogynists. Rich people who are philanthropists and rich people who are greedy.
Im the end it's the evil of human nature vs the good of the human spirit. Everything else is just a distraction from that.
This isn't a battle of white vs black. This is the battle between human nature and the human spirit. And as long as we divide ourselves, our primal human nature will always win and we will never advance as a species.
Originally posted by Surtur
I would disagree with one thing though. I think it comes down to more than just 2 kinds of people. You have people who protect, you have people who prey, and then you have people like me where I don't prey on people, but I don't really protect anyone either.
If circumstances came down to it, which would you do?
Hypotheticals are pretty important. If a person was offered complete control over the way the world works, there are big differences between someone who would try to sort out all of the worlds problems, someone who would use it to eliminate the people they dislike, someone who would let the world continue the way it's going but revel in wealth, and someone who would refuse control entirely. It says a lot about their character. Whether those people would actually do the things they said they would, however, is an entirely different matter.
Hypotheticals that are very rare aren't as important as how a person acts in their everyday life, which is what truly matters.
Especially this hypothetical which is way too vague to even give a proper answer. It almost sounds like it was meant to suggest a life and death situation, in which yes some people do crack under those circumstances. However, most people will never be put in that situation. So I'd rather judge them more based on what they do day in and day out.
Also the more intense the kind of hypothetical is..the more unreliable the answer becomes. Since in those situations nobody can truly be sure how they'd respond.
Don't get me started on Kaepernick. This is a piece of shit who says he wants to sit down during the national anthem because black people are oppressed and shit. Meanwhile I haven't heard any reports of him donating his $19 million dollar pay check to black charities. He gets 19 mil for being a shitty QB, poor oppressed guy.
That of course doesn't mean some blacks don't face oppression, but when a spoiled brat whines about it while blacks kill blacks everyday in record numbers? It's hilarious. Then he goes and wears socks with "pigs" on them? What a joke. This is so that when he gets cut from the team he can whine and blame it on racism. So he pulled the NFL version of what Ghostbusters did.