Erykah Badu: "Poor Is The New Black. You Don't Have To Be Black Now."

[JBoy]

working class and poorer whites still enjoy greater political leverage, are still much less likely to be targeted by the criminal justice system and are less likely to live in as bad of poverty as many Blacks live in (I live in South Georgia and the working class areas for Whites in rural areas are much more developed than the corresponding ones for poorer Blacks in the immediate region) it's the poorest part of the classism argument, classism is very frequently more severe when dealt with by America's non white working class/poor

 

[Mason83]

To this whole day...

It's 4/20, relax, smoke a blunt and listen to music.

 

[godkiller]

Poor country whites and poor inner city blacks have more in common than differences.



Yet somehow they're the two groups that complain the most about the other group


Wonder how that happened

It is true, it would be dumb as fukk to argue it.

What? It's not true. Poor non-blacks don't have anywhere near the same negative experiences as poor blacks. The only thing they do in common is that both poor blacks and whites fukk up often. That said, in terms of actual disparate treatment, they are not the same at all, contrary to your opinion. A white male without a high school degree has a higher chance of being hired than a black male college graduate.

 

[Unknown Poster]

It's 4/20, relax, smoke a blunt and listen to music.

What im doing now.

 

[godkiller]

They were made to be that by rich whites to ensure poor whites and blacks never crossed racial lines and achieve class solidarity

Rich cacs never *made* poor cacs do or believe anything. Poor cacs naturally believe they are better than blacks as a function of ignorance and nativism. Rich cacs sometimes exacerbate what poor cacs already believe for nefarious ends at times (like Hitler did the Germans) but don't *create* those beliefs in poor whites (like Hitler didn't create anti-Semitisim in Germans). I have a European friend from Finland who told me last week that Finnish people are naturally racist towards blacks and foreigners, but that through moderation, education and experience they can be made more tolerant. In other words, cacs are racist by nature.

Nah, poor blacks don't fukk their pets and relatives and poor blacks don't sit around posting hate comments online all day.

Poor blacks also suffer far more than poor whites when it comes to social issues. I think the only similarlity in that poor whites and blacks often make poor decisions, but that's why they're poor.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Rich cacs never *made* poor cacs do or believe anything. Poor cacs naturally believe they are better than blacks as a function of ignorance and nativism. Rich cacs sometimes exacerbate what poor cacs already believe for nefarious ends at times but don't *create* those beliefs in poor blacks. I have a European friend from Finland who told me last week that Finnish people are naturally racist towards blacks and foreigners, but that through moderation, education and experience they can be made more tolerant. In other words, cacs are racist by nature.




Poor blacks also suffer far more than poor whites when it comes to social issues. I think the only similarlity in that poor whites and blacks often make poor decisions, but that's why they're poor.

Capitalism & Racism

Give it a good read, the rich white slave and land owners in the US didnt want their poor white brethren to get jump so they created the negativity around the negro race to ensure tension between the too.

cacs are racist by nature

Everyone is a racist by that logic.

 

[godkiller]

Capitalism & Racism

Give it a good read, the rich white slave and land owners in the US didnt want their poor white brethren to get jump so they created the negativity around the negro race to ensure tension between the too.

Your theory is nonsense. Whites in general created negativity around the black race to justify enslavement and white superiority, same as humans create negativity around dogs (i.e. they are just animals) so as to justify enslaving dogs. That's it.

Everyone is a racist by that logic.

Indeed, all men are born and raised with certain biases and predisposition which society reinforces (or not). Poor cacs have a predisposition to ignorance and bigotry, all the while getting reinforcement for these beliefs by a white centric and controlled society which tells and implies to them that indeed cacs are all better than blacks. As such the poor cacs come to believe in their own supremacy without any rich cac ever saying anything. In fact poor cacs, by dint of their ignorance and bigotry, are often disappointed with the rich leaders who don't appeal to said ignorance and bigotry. The poor cacs actually gravitate to the rich cacs who are racist bigots. And a loop begins: the rich cacs see that their candidacies aren't drawing attention, and that the poor cacs only support racists, and so the rich cacs begin advocating racism, and so on and so forth. There, I've just described the Republican party and the Southern strategy.

 

[Ski Mask]

This shall be good

 

[Gravity]

No one is arguing that its not a factor

We can organize like a motherfukker when police beat us up,” she says. “But can we organize to stop black-on-black crime, or poor-on-poor crime? Because, you know, poor is the new black. You don’t have to be black now.”

I'll assume you don't comprehend what the bolded means.

 

[Ski Mask]

In early for the fukkery that this thread will cause.

This is really fukked up given the fact that the little kid just saw his father fall to his death. still tho

 

[BaggerofTea]

Your theory is nonsense. Whites in general created negativity around the black race to justify enslavement and white superiority, same as humans create negativity around dogs (i.e. they are just animals) so as to justify enslaving dogs. That's it.

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Indeed, all men are born and raised with certain biases and predisposition which society reinforces (or not). Poor cacs have a predisposition to ignorance and bigotry, all the while getting reinforcement for these beliefs by a white centric and controlled society which tells and implies to them that indeed cacs are all better than blacks. As such the poor cacs come to believe in their own supremacy without any rich cac ever saying anything. In fact poor cacs, by dint of their ignorance and bigotry, are often disappointed with the rich leaders who don't appeal to said ignorance and bigotry. The poor cacs actually gravitate to the rich cacs who are racist bigots. And a loop begins: the rich cacs see that their candidacies aren't drawing attention, and that the poor cacs only support racists, and so the rich cacs begin advocating racism, and so on and so forth. There, I've just described the Republican party and the Southern strategy.

Let me educate you. When English colonists first established themselves in what we now call America, blacks started out as indentured servants on the same level as whites, many even were free men working as sailors and laborers.

You could even go so far as ancient Rome where skin tone did not matter. Slaves were all of colors and freed individuals were too.

It's only when rich white landowners became aware that the poorer whites were getting agitated with their predicament they turned them on blacks. Look at all the blackface propaganda, racist cartoons and movies that were created in the Jim crow era. All that was a plot ensure whites remained as the hounddog for their rich handlers.


Everyone is predisposed to ethnocentricities. That's a human genetic survival trait. It's not about superiority as much as weariness about people who don't share the same biological traits as yourself

 

[BaggerofTea]

We can organize like a motherfukker when police beat us up,” she says. “But can we organize to stop black-on-black crime, or poor-on-poor crime? Because, you know, poor is the new black. You don’t have to be black now.”

I'll assume you don't comprehend what the bolded means.

She isn't dismissing race at all. She is including class into the debate

 

[Concerning VIolence]

Is it me or does everyone just conflate black struggle with being poor? Blackness is not even a thing, it's just "poor" and "being poor". The way people analyze black folks and all their o "poorness" like test subjects. Like poorness is just this genetic and inherent component of blackness. "

 

[Lifer11]

Nah, poor blacks don't fukk their pets and relatives and poor blacks don't sit around posting hate comments online all day.

Not saying you're poor but still hard to ignore the irony here

 

[Zero]

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