Pharrell's Views On Race Sends Twitter Into An Uproar

[Black Magisterialness]

I think the bigger issue we need to address is getting others to realize that race is a social construct made to impoverish, dehumanize, control and in some cases exterminate certain groups of people. People who are "mixed" and "mulattoes" aren't black. They are a new sub-set of people altogether. In the same way black african/native/european blood is in the veins of virtually all african-americans, they didn't even exist in such number until now.

I think Pharell's intentions are good, but he has rose tinted glasses. I agree that being STUCK in racial rhetoric can hurt the community, but i'd rather talk about it and embrace the differences in cultures (which is really what people usually attribute to "race"), while at the same time fighting inequality against peoples of "color".

Telling us to "get over it" isn't helping when we are seeing our cultures dismantled, our cities being gentrified and taken over by larger legislative bodies and our peers and fellow black folks drawing lines in the sand based off educational/economic backgrounds.

 

[theworldismine13]

Dude, that's a pretty narrow minded way to look at it.

A mother raising her child in the gheetto would live to "do her," but, the govt doesn't care her child isn't learning a thing. The govt doesn't mind her neighborhood being downwind of a chemical plant. The police are pulling everyone over but can't solve a murder and have horrible response times.

Your boiling groups of ppls issues down to an image problem.

Its always black ppls faults..

i read this, and im not even disagreeing with the facts stated but where are you going with this?

i think in the end you are believing in an ideology that puts the fate of the black race in white hands, which i think is an unacceptable ideology

 

[theworldismine13]

Who told you, you are black? Who told you, you are African? Do you know the meaning of black? Do you know the origin of the word Africa?

i think the better question is who told you you are a nikka?

 

[Insensitive]

in case both of you idiots couldnt tell, I was trolling a cpl folks I go back and forth with on the regular.

and yes, you can be half Jamaica half nigerian, half american half african, you fukking idiot.

Nationality and race aren't the same thing though
Race is typically denoted by physical features thus if you "look" a
certain way you're "half" black.
Nationality on the other hand isn't viewed like a mixture of different
attributes, you're just either are, or you aren't.
Hence you get terms like "British American","Chinese American" etc.
You don't get people saying "I'm half British, Half American".
I'm just letting you know before you run into somebody that calls
you out for this shyt offline

Anyways I know you can drag this out, so instead
of arguing four or five pages, I'll just :
Let me google that for you

 

[Tommy Knocks]

Nationality and race aren't the same thing though
Race is typically denoted by physical features thus if you "look" a
certain way you're "half" black.
Nationality on the other hand isn't viewed like a mixture of different
attributes, you're just either are, or you aren't.
Hence you get terms like "British American","Chinese American" etc.
You don't get people saying "I'm half British, Half American".
I'm just letting you know before you run into somebody that calls
you out for this shyt offline

Anyways I know you can drag this out, so instead
of arguing four or five pages, I'll just :
Let me google that for you

so when someone says they are half irish half british they are talking about what exactly? they are 2 different white races? if someone says half japanese half chinese, they are talking about what?

nikka knock it off and scram. you already know you sounding stupid right now. I know its nationality my mother is from congo. dummie. I mentioned dealing in sino-african trading, then wrote, Im half african, as in, the reason I am going to africa is because I have ties to africa.

the dumb is strong with this one.

 

[Droopy]

i'm human first before being black.

 

[philmonroe]

I think what you're missing here is not everyone has that chance and being
a hard worker does not exactly translate to being wealthy.
There are kids born into families with a great amount of wealth amassed while blacks weren't even allowed to vote
at the same time there are diligent hardworking black upstanding black citizens who barely make a livable wage.
You're also forgetting that the vast majority of people who are born in a particular tax bracket DO NOT make it out of it.
What you're saying doesn't necessarily equate to the reality of someone whose family has yet to send
someone off to college.
What you feel doesn't necessarily translate to the reality that some children are faced with inadequate teachers,
who're given inadequate teaching resources and students who struggle to succeed only to deal with being labeled as
lazy, ignorant's with no aspirations in life.
Your opinions can't deal with the facts of being poor and it's correlation to school success rates and economic mobility.
I'm one inclined to believe in working hard and doing what you can to achieve your goals but
I'm also not fool enough to believe in the decidedly simplistic view of the world that comes with
talk of "bootstraps".

Thats ok I go on a case by case basis but I'm talking about alot of people that fit into what I say. I don't like your way or anybody that agrees with you because I guarantee if we go that way we won't progress as much as the way I believe in over time. I know there are setbacks but the thing about letting everybody have fallbacks aka valid reasons that even I see is that too many people use these as crutches. So you do it the way you like but Im not down with that way and for me its nothing about c00ning or any other shaming shyt some of yall like use but the way I feel is most conducive to long term success. We have to get back to getting things right and not settling for nothing less than the best regardless of what that is fukk all this talk about shyt we've known for decades but yet still just mainly talking about. Collectively we stalling out here instead of making moves hell if not to only show the success we know is possible IMO.

 

[Blackking]

you guys did a good job in this thread, especially first page.

pharrell made ok points, but got carried away and delusional... his perspective is from being rich, and being part of a weird sub culture. I live and deal w those types daily - They all think the same, I smh at them because they don't even know any better. I can't even be upset at the shyt.

 

[theworldismine13]

Is Tyson #newblack or #oldblack?

 

[thekingsmen]

@Peter Vecsey went hard in this thread.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Pharrell has a point though, but the c00ns aint trying to hear it.

I don't TRY to be black. I just get reminded of that shyt by other people... smh.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

A jew brings up the holocaust every chance they get but.....nvm

you're worried about jews though...so...

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

They use it to gain assets and power while we use it to marinate in helplessness

They ain't gonna like you fam

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Pharell also has the wealth and prestige to be post racial. The ability to be seen as colorless is something that is only afforded to visionaries of our time. The average black man isn't given the benefit of the doubt enough to be anything but black. No matter what realm of progression you go into besides sports and entertainment, you will always be looked at as an outsider unless the population in power changes or the field you are in is already dominated by your ethnic group.

"just doing you" is great advice, but as someone said, alot of good "doing you" is gonna do when you are "randomly selected" at the airport. Or pulled over in an affluent area for no real reason, or judged by people before you even open your mouth.

Dude, Pharrell pretty much UNDERSTANDS the black struggle. Listen to his lyrics...but he doesn't let it define him, and you wish it did. Thats the difference.

 

[Poitier]

They ain't gonna like you fam

I think I am starting to realize Black Americans are doomed. I'm going to look to assimilate in a Black country elsewhere and watch the destruction continue


No other group loos for wiggle room to run from their problems