Nas wrote:
IMU wrote:
I think the end game for everyone is to get to a point where we don't think "it always will."
If I call a white woman a patriot (it's been documented that I have), I don't think of it as me calling a white woman a patriot. It's just a woman. She isn't on my "team." Let's not have teams based on skin color.
Pipe dream, maybe, but it takes people from all backgrounds to agree to this approach in order to enact it.
Someone that organizes their own self or their people by skin color is setting their self up to be identified by their skin color. I've never seen a random white person and said "that person is my people because they're white."
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If you are preaching unity with white women or dogs, calling them bitches and threatening to harm them defeats the purpose.
You are my guy, but I don't know if you are trolling, simply not putting much thought in your words or it is simple ignorance. America has organized us. It's disingenuous to act if that isn't true. In America you're simply an American and I'm described as an African-American or Black. It doesn't matter if you are Irish like Crest or Polish like GD, you are just an American. When America sees me, I'm a black man first. Not a man or a man who happens to be black. I had no say in that.
It is easy for you to make that statement because you live in a country where 2/3 of the people look like you. I live in the same country and slightly more than 10% of the people look like me. That's removing power and influence from the discussion. If you found yourself in a place where 90% of the people looked different than you, I imagine that you might nod your head when you saw 1 person that did. We are all tribalistic in some way.
I'm not preaching unity with white women. Why would I? We're not on teams based on color of skin. If someone says you are, don't act like you are. Act like that's bullshit and you aren't playing by those rules. The strategy of receding back to black friends, black businesses, black neighborhoods, blacks supporting blacks just seems like self imposed isolationism with the excuse that you're being forced into it.
I'm not trolling. I've pulled all the thought I have into my words, and it is possible that isn't enough thought. But there is no ignorance. That is the point of view that I don't like. There is some aspect of me not being able to relate. I can't avoid that. But I'm living in the same country, and I think I have the same goals as you, at least long term. I just see a different mindset in how to get there.
You know who doesn't refer to me as an American? Some blacks and hispanics. I'm a white boy. It goes both ways. I want to be the guy that reinforces American versus white or black. 10% of people doing that turns into 20% turns into 50% turns into suddenly our grandkids don't even think about the color. Again, possibly a pie-in-the-sky thought. Doesn't mean that shouldn't be the thought.
No one looks like me. I'm too damn gorgeous.
Anyways, it all comes back to Snoop Dogg's personal beliefs outweigh his supposed 'responsibility' toward people of his same skin color. I think that is progress. Let's go back to being individuals with individual passions and beliefs.
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