I liked what the brother Jeff and Latasha had to say at around 16-17 mins in.
I also understand the young woman’s anger towards white dude even if I don’t necessarily agree with it. And she’s right that it’s not black ppl’s responsibility to hold white ppl’s hands through this shyt, but as white dude in this video displayed, they may need some assistance in order to get a deeper understanding of what the fukk is going on. I don’t think it’s realistic for white ppl to do the work all by themselves because their very existence in a white space doesn’t allow them to see enough of what’s going on to disrupt their moral compass enough to want to do anything about it. And this presents a big issue because yes it’s fukking ANNOYING AS fukk to have to address white ignorance, which is usually offensive, but it might be necessary in order to achieve the big picture goals.
Essentially what I’m saying is that it is not the job of black ppl to educate white ppl but the truth is white ppl aren’t going to go ahead and do it themselves, out of the goodness of their own hearts, if they don’t even know how fukked up it is to begin with. And even if they did want to change shyt, I’m not confident that without someone to help educate them that they’d even know where to start.
And maybe I’m wrong, but this is why I try to educate the white ppl I’m around (co-workers mainly) about black ppl problems, as much as it sometimes makes me wanna rip my hair out. In my experience it’s made a difference since we’ve been hiring a lot more black ppl where I work at now and the executive director (an old hippie white lady) has now made it a goal of hers to expose systemic barriers in education (still no telling if her words will lead to action though—I’ll wait and see).
No disrespect so please don't take this the wrong way but y'all have so much love in your heart for white people. Maybe 'love' isn't the right word but y'all have an insane amount of patience and optimism. We're talking about adults for the most part, people that can read, people that know how Google works, people that certainly know who our president is, etc.
Anyone that doesn't know what's going on at this point in time or doesn't know where to start is willfully ignorant and doesn't want to know and I have no desire to be the nice darkie holding a cacs hand through the process. Nobody held my hand through the deadly ass process of being Black, fukk them and fukk their white fragility and fukk coddling them like a bunch of fukking babies. If you want to make that your burden to bear, you go right ahead, but honestly I don't even give a fukk about them learning or changing or any of that shyt at this point, this society is going down regardless, we've already reached the point of no return imo. All this upheaval and chaos is not just going to go away, for the most part our society has been running off the strength of nikkas being nice and turning the other cheek for the past 150 years and that's done now. (Not to mention how capitalism is not sustainable and the free market is eventually going down, too.)
Toni Morrison gave a great lecture at the university of Portland in 1975 (NINETEEN SEVENTY FIVE) on the importance of Black people doing OUR work instead of putting all this energy and labor into educating fukk ass cacs. Especially considering racism is illogical as fukk so you're most likely not going to change their minds regardless, you'll either be 1. An exception aka a good darkie or 2. It's going to go in one ear and out the other. I'm just really focusing on trying to build outside of already established infrastructure i.e. supporting Black creators of all kinds (from coders to independent media to whatever else), supporting Black owned businesses, learning about buying back the block, homeschooling, sustainability, urban agriculture, et al. That's just me tho, I'm about that going off the grid life which I know is extreme lol
The lecture for anyone interested:
Portland State, "Black Studies Center public dialogue. Pt. 2" May 30, 1975.
And I did a video on it: