Nas wrote:
When a white poster (chas) told me that he was going to violently rape my family several years ago and I responded by telling him I would kick his ass if he ever showed up to an event, I got a PM from someone that I like and respect telling me I was wrong. How should I respond to someone threatening my family that way? Let me know what day works for you? I even got a message from chas the other day telling me he wasn't sorry and that I should be an adult and get over his comments.
See, with the chas thing idk why it's being mentioned that he's white, aside from there being some sort of an implication that the incoming PM was someone sticking up for chas because he was white. I mean, while I obviously do not understand what it's like to grow up as an african american in this society and therefore I'll never completely know what it feels like to deal with those racial slurs as a lamentably common part of life, at the same time i am overweight, and i have been ridiculed for that since approximately the 4th grade.... granted being black isn't a choice and being fat is (just like alcoholism/addiction isn't a "disease" GTFO), still, i've at least got some experience being in a position where merely existing was reason enough to catch ridicule from people, so i think i can understand a little bit of what's going on.
One of the disconnects that has to be made is that you can't represent every black person every time some generic trollbaiting vitriol is tossed out there trying to elicit a reaction like this. It's kind of like Oprah starting off her show with and coming out to "I'm Every Woman" ---- no you're not, you're a fucking billionaire who lives a completely fabricated artificial plastic life that's insulated from reality at every corner, bend, and juncture. and in this case, man, i'm reminded of Chris Rock's famous "black people vs [n-word]az" routine. In that, Chris said that an example of a black person is a guy who busts his ass with 2.5-3 jobs foregoing a lot to make sure he has enough $$$ to send his kids to college. A [n-word]a is the guy who robs that family when they can finally afford to go on vacation.
See, Chris speaks of the cultural disconnect between people who happen to be black and the "thug archetype" that has been purveyed and glorified throughout mass media, especially in the medium of music. And like I said with Steve before, when he's making slights at black people he's thinking of that minority % of black people who "hustle" for a living and embody every negative stereotype that the media has worked so hard to drill into our heads. Again, working as a police officer he had to deal with the lowest of the low in terms of the bonafide "losers"in life whose criminal element was sizeable enough to essentially define them as a person, and when your job features you dealing with that element 90-95% of the time as opposed to normally functioning productive members of society who happen to be black (i.e. when you look at them as a person, their blackness isn't the first thing that you think about), well then you're going to be slanted in your views of black people, and since you've had the validation of the inherent power that comes with the badge, you're going to feel righteous in disseminating your opinions since you were never checked for having them when you developed them.
I can't speak to why he feels the need to aggressively racebait on the board, or what psychological ends he gets out of the whole deal.... i mean that in and of itself is the issue that necessitated this thread, IMHO, but like.... if you make the issue truly black and white (no pun intended) that everything comes down to black and white, even by ostentatiously trying to combat the issue of race that steve raised, you're only helping him along my enforcing the dichotomy/divide/etc.... i mean, if everything is going to be analyzed from a perspective of "a white guy said this" / "a black guy said that" then the divide is only going to get wider and deeper and thusly bigger..... cuz ideally we should get to the crux of what people are saying without taking their race into consideration. you were right to check chas at the door not because he was a white guy talking shit to a black guy when he's legendarily on reord asnot being a fan of the black guys, but because the dumbass threatened to rape your family. i like to think that whoever PM'd you didn't do it because of the white good-ol-boy-network looking out for their own, but knowing that chas is just a harmless dumbass living out his badass fantasies behind the guise of a keyboard tough guy.... i don't think it was racially motivated.
and that's what i was trying to get at when i told you that you need to be the bigger man her.... tl;dr, i know.... but i see you posting your stuff on here and i know and respect the fact that you're a righteous dude who isn't here to take shit from anyone, moreover you're going to give hell to people who cross you (or in my case, people who give you mike trout and stephen strasburg. man that j-upton/kemp thing = i got taken out to the woodshed. yikes) but yeah, foreal nas.... BE THE BETTER MAN..... let this go not because it's a bunch of white guys begging a black guy to have mercy on another white guy, cuz this aint a racial issue.... it's a being-better-than-steve issue.... and you know you are, but by even acknowledging him, let alone going to these lengths to take him down, you're only giving him exactly what he wanted..... and while you're morally right for doing this, still, it's like playing a game of global thermonuclear war with WOPR in wargames: the only way to win is not to play the game.
so yeah, i reckon at this jucture someone can fetch HHH's shovel and bury me for trying to stick up for the point i made earlier, but like, y'all know i'm right. steve did all of this HOPING that shit would go down, and in a way this thread is more than he bargained for. i'm pretty sure that he'd totally accept a ban as the confirmation that this place is RACIST AGAINST WHITES and etc etc...... as many others have touched on, ignoring him and not playing his game is the only way to win. SHOMER SHABBOS * POUNDS TABLE *
you can do it, nas. maybe pop on the instrumental for 2pac's "i don't give a fuck" and get a little 2-step boogie in your stride and remember that there's a reason steve is trying to cut y'all black people down to his size... it's like paul mooney said on chappelle's show once "everyone wanna be a [n-word]a but ain't nobody wanna be a [n-word]a" ---- that's why the american black man is quite possibly the most imitated man in the world.
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