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People need to understaand that black people are the reason America is still together. Europe was a region filled with ethnic conflict. There's this myth that white people all got along under the banner of whiteness and accepted each other's culture. When immigrants first came to the US. Only British people were wanted...why? Because the people in charge knew that people coming over would bring their animosity over.
Protestants vs Catholics, french vs British, Russians vs Ukrainians, Italians vs Greeks etc. So they restricted immigration. The numbers needed to be up though so slowly the rules were relaxed.
Each time the rules were relaxed more tension built, so then to keep the country from turning into Europe number 2, they decided to invent the idea of whiteness. You're not Irish anymore you're not Jewish anymore you're a white American. America is your fresh start and you're entitled to opportunity as a white man.
Each time these new immigrants came over they'd use black people as the standard to measure themselves again. "We work hard unlike the blacks"
"We don't get in trouble like the blacks do"
They'd prove themselves by comparing themselves to black people and saying they're better. They would be presented opportunity, the chance to buy homes and pass down their wealth to younger generations. Black people had to deal with slavery, then redlining and Jim Crow. The means to build family wealth were kept from black americans while people considered white were allowed to buy homes, get good loans and investments and build generational wealth.
Black families meanwhile were stuck in average quality housing that started to fall apart. We weren't able to afford renovations for removing the lead paint or asbestos in a lot of the buildings we lived in. So then a lot of black children grew up with all sorts of chemicals in their system that affected their mental and physical health. Some of these cats Wilding in the streets are literally mentally ill because of the poisons in their poorly maintained neighborhoods.
It's not that black people aren't working hard or getting educated, the means to advance were locked away from us and we still get denied for loans, jobs, colleges, and aren't shown homes in decent neighborhoods. When we do get into a nice neighborhood they want us to c00n it up and if enough of us start to move in they start to leave.
Now this brings us to the newest waves of migrants. East Asians and Latinos. They come in here and immediately see what the pecking order is and then begin to distance themselves from black people and use us as the standard they can measure themselves against. And slowly but surely they are now becoming more accepted by white society and being given more opportunities. It's not that black people don't work hard, we've literally been denied the means to build wealth and move up.
If black people were not fukked with everytime we tried to build something for ourselves, and we couldn't be used as a scapegoat, all the tensions between these white groups would boil over and they'd be at each others throats. As long they have us to hate on, they can rally together. What we need to do is focus 100% on our communities. People who wanna cape for Latinos are playing themselves. They don't give a shyt about you, nobody else does. We need to build wealth by working together and buying from black business owners and supporting black entertainers that invest in the community. We need to root out c00ns and hang up the capes for other races in the us because they will not and have not thrown on their capes for us
People in here
And they didn't have to go through slavery or Jim Crow.
Expect to see more sistas feeling like this, if these numbers continue.
. Unless you’re super traditional yourself or from the south I doubt your expectations align.
can’t be mad at that....they had a black leader years ago what he do? hired mostly cacs
. Threads like this always get made when what happened over the past 2 weeks unfolded. 