I feel pretty honored that you want my perspective on things like this. My thoughts are black people have been telling these stories for centuries and white people simply won't listen. Frankly, they need to gain their epiphanies on their own. I cannot be the catalyst. I don't enjoy having these conversations with white people and I feel that it is not my job to give my black perspective in this instance. White people simply need to understand the privilege that it is to be white in this country. I cannot help white people do this. IMHO that is specifically a white job. It's really funny watching white people have these conversations. It clearly shows that lots of y'all are ignorant and don't get it. It also shows that I'm so glad to have
@Orion Bailey as a friend He seems to get it when a lot of y'all don't.
It's 20 FUCKING 20 and some of y'all don't seem to get that America is a lying ass BITCH who never wants to tell her own truth. Because if she did then you would know about ALL of my people's contributions to this country. How black people LITERALLY brought white people out of literal darkness. Y'all would also know how intertwined Hispanic culture and black culture is.
Reading this thread illustrates to me how woefully ignorant lots of you are. The information is there and you have it at the palm of your hand. But instead of looking into these issues you'd rather sit here and debate things that you know absolutely nothing about. Get informed about a subject before you debate it because you will sound stupid the entire debate if you don't... Some of y'all in here sound pretty stupid... Thank you for asking for my engagement but I must respectfully decline Jason...
I get it. Appreciate the response. I can only imagine how it must feel to see people actively dismiss the push for equality based on our history, as not relevant. Meaning, too many people say "that was then and this is now" without any thought to cause or correlation to how today is directly affected by yesterday.
People don't forget. Unless you benefited from the past....Then they want to forget and say...
"But...That was then... and things have changed."
Some things have changed. Don't get complacent. More change is still needed.
In this specific back and forth I see a presidential candidate comparing African Culture to Hispanic Culture and I say you cant compare the two. Its like comparing Asians to the French. Or Europe to Puerto Ricans.
There are counties(some have multiple races) and then there are cultures. Most cultures include a few/to many, races and each race has a different twist on their culture.
So if we are going to compare African Culture to something, it should be compared to Cuban Culture, or Chinese Culture. Not Hispanic Culture, which represents many countries and races. The correct equation would be Black culture, which also includes many races and countries.
I tried pointing that out and the Biden knob bobbers got all on me about it. Even tried to directly misquote me to make it look like I made a comment that all Blacks are African Americans.
That's where I brought you into it, because the level of ignorance from my standpoint is mindboggling. I felt I needed some help. LOL.
I'M also going to say this right here right now because I think its important and I think you deserve this to be said and known.
I see you get alot of shit for being offensive or uncompromising, curt and abrasive with what you say on here.
I just want to make it clear to all here reading this.
D is clearly a liberal leaning towards a form of socialism. Without getting into the semantics of it, I'm a liberal conservative. Somewhat the opposite. And yet, D and I can have mad respect for each other and support each other in our beliefs and our cause.
If anyone has met D in person (I know many of you have) you will come to love the passion this man has, and the level of respect he gives those around him.
So when people bash him on here for being so strong in his beliefs, claiming reverse racism, etc, I ask you to ask of yourself one thing.
What are you passionate about?
If nothing, then this isnt for you because you wont understand. But if you have something you have in your life you are passionate about, or have a strong belief in, then I implore you to use that as a measuring stick prior to coming at D. Check your own level of passion and if its true, you will likely find yourself walking the same path as D does with regards to what h is passionate about, and thus gain a great amount of respect and understanding for where he is coming from.
I do not agree with every view D has just like he doesn't agree with all of mine, but its clear we both want good things for all humans and that right there is enough to come together to support each other.
