Refusing to be a part of the process of how things get done? So you're saying blacks HAVE to vote to better their communities and cant take the steps that people such as Rosewood/Black Walstreet did by taking it ON THEMSELVES to better their situations?
I'm not sure if you've actually read my posts in this thread. But I've made it clear that VOTING ALONE WILL NOT FIX ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS. It is a tool for advancement & betterment of those who have been disenfranchised. It is a tool that I encourage people to exercise. Why can't you protest and vote to support people & issues that matter in your community?
And this aint a "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" position. Im just making the point that things dont get done by begging your oppressors to help you. How may black slaves you think was begging massa to stop splitting up his families and whipping him, removing his true names for names of Bill and Johnson? You'd think slavery, the tuskogee experiments, destruction of thriving black communities like Blackwallstreet which were SELF sufficient, the splintering of social movements such as the Civil rights movement and black panther party, the dismissal of police killing of innocent blacks on CAMERA such as Garner and Tamir Rice etc.. would CLEARLY establish to blacks that this place they are in does not in any way shape or form fukk with them. But no. People still think if they go to the table and ask nicely, the system will love them and care for their progress. You're fooling yourself breh... The most they'll give you is CRUMBS
at the bold, no one is saying to ask your oppressor to help you or to be nice about demanding what's owed to you. Serious question: Do you understand how voting works?
I posted an article from Brother Malcolm who disagreed with your entire premise on voting. Your thoughts on that?
"Communities"? Sure. Black communities? Absolutely not. But hey, maybe you can point out some instances where blacks voted and things got better for them. I dont even know what issues are worth blacks coming together to vote for that they couldnt do on their own. Maybe roads and stuff like that, but schooling? Nah. Blacks shouldnt be sending their kids to an establishment that has REPEATEDLY shown itself to despise blacks, to learn and grow lol. Kinda ridiculous if you sit down and think about it.
Nah brother I'm going to encourage you to read up on that. The only way this conversation works is for both sides to have some level of understanding of the other. You've proven in this conversation to be woefully ignorant of the voting process and cynical in all of its results. How long have voting rights for black people even been protected in this country? 50 years? You got people who marched & protested and got thrown in jail, beaten & in some instances died just for the right to vote...you think any of that was black people asking gently & nicely for their rights? GTFOH breh
Like I said we're the only race of people that will willingly disenfranchise ourselves and then continue to sit around and complain why things don't get better. I'm not with that bullshyt
I'm willing to bet the majority of those critics also responded to him taking a knee as being a disrespectful piece of shyt. That he "should just shut up, stay out of politics and be happy that he make bazillions of dollars playing football."
So basically, who cares what they have to say? He can't win with those people no matter his stance.
Nonvoters simply shouldn't COMPLAIN. He said neither would have addressed issues that affect him the most. I respect that answer.
I disagree. You can support Kaep's message of protest but disagree with him not voting. So don't try to lazily lump all of his critics into one bucket.
As for the bolded, there were more things to vote on than the President? Did you know that? Did Kaep? IDK but him being that ignorant of the process is what's so disappointing
