Something really tragic happens to the minds of Black writers, thinkers and academics under the white liberal dispensation: they are encouraged to constantly be venting rage and performing victimhood, trained to cry about how EXHAUSTED they are and to parade their scars for money and attention, to pretend that Jim Crow would be immediately reinstated if not for the kindness and protection of their white liberal protectors, to make believe that we still live in the America of 1950 or 1850; basically Black pain becomes sold as a luxury commodity for upscale white liberals (and the journalists and producers who package the product).
In the white liberal dispensation, Black people are denied agency and responsibility, they don't get to be fallible humans but always first and foremost either SYMBOLS (of the sins of our forefathers and esp of those other Bad Whites over there) or as talismans/amulets: all good white liberals make sure to put a BLM sign on their lawn or profile, and our media outlets know to put a Black face on a magazine or billboard, this way everyone knows they're on the side of the angels.
But if someone (w/ someone being more or less the upscale white liberals who control just about all of our media and journalism) is encouraging you to be a helpless victim, patronizing you with sentimental essentialist platitudes as if you were the literal incarnation of Rousseau's Noble Savage, constantly reminding you that THERE ARE THOSE OTHER PEOPLE OVER THERE who hate and want to destroy you, encouraging you to lose emotional self-control and the ability to reason clearly, they are not trying to help you, they are trying to manipulate you.
I can only say that our forebearers in the first half of the 20th century who withstood real racism could not imagine how radically changed America would become and the extraordinary privilege African Americans now enjoy. Dare I say, they would not have understood the unproductive and untruths spewed by the wokesters. The absolute silliness, and quite frankly low self-esteem reflected in a film such as this is absolutely depressing. I'm embarrassed.
Well, the good news is basically nobody is going to watch it; right now it is giving “Santa Inc” a run for its money as the lowest rated show in the history of Rotten Tomatoes at 3% fresh vs 97% rotten, with not a single professional critic reviewing it.
Thank you -- this piece inspired me to become a paid subscriber. As Sam Harris has said (I'm paraphrasing), if you switch out "black" for "white" as in, "What's annoying about black people is when they, you know, kill us," and you sound like the Grand Wizard of the KKK, you might be doing it wrong.
I appreciate the review. Sounds like a docuseries that largely provides the voices of racist black people and gave the impression that those voices represented all black people. Pretty standard these days.
“ Not every black person thinks that reparations should be distributed as a cash payout (Episode Three). ”
Nope. In fact, I think that if any reparations are paid they should be first and foremost paid for directly by the Democratic Party, the party that so many black people these days have an unjustified loyalty to. The fact that many black people think reparations are owed to them and yet those same black people don’t seek first reparations from the party that fought a war to keep our ancestors in slavery and then took reparations given to our ancestors and gave them back to the former slave owners is absolutely tragic.
I have even written an essay about the history of the Democratic Party and its unaccepted legacy. I would very much like this essay printed on Free Black Thought.
It’s essential reading I think for any American, black or white, or purple, who has any concern about America’s legacy of slavery and racial oppression. Because that history is largely used as a political weapon by one party that perversely is the organization that is still around that is most responsible for that legacy of slavery and racial oppression. The Democratic Party once fought a war to keep black people enslaved and the Democratic Party now fights to keep black people pawns and subjects dependent on their political spoils. The black people who benefit the most from oversized loyalty to the Democratic Party are mostly racists and race hustlers.
That all said, I am no Republican — and never voted for a Republican for president. History is what it is though, and it is past time more black people wake up to the Democratic Party’s past.
There does come a time when folks just stop listening to 'racism 24/7'...and if it's not here already, it's fast approaching. ie. It's not always about you....
There seems to be an assembly line somewhere churning out half-assed documentaries. George Washington owned slaves? Jesus wasn’t white? They really did some deep research.
I didn't watch it, but now I kinda want to! You hilariously spoiled it for me (people shooting the shit at a cookout????), and I thank you for it, as we will need a lot of humor and self-deprecation to survive these incredible years of dark visuals and terrible ideas.
Well said, a fine summary of the huge disservice being done to Black people by their Liberal White Saviors and, sadly, their Black "leaders" and activists. Which latter DO get paid.
It seems to me that the race essentialism point is to be MADE true via shifting definitions. When Biden said those who don't vote for him aren't Black, he was treating "Black" not as a race or some set of genetic markers, but rather as an exclusive sociopolitical group defined by combining African ancestry with political ideology. This is why Clarence Thomas isn't considered black, for example. By changing what it means to be Black to require a particular political viewpoint, they can then confidently say that all "Black" people think this way or that way.
I'm concerned that by playing with definitions this way the ultimate goal is to keep alive race-based conflicts long after the point where it would otherwise no longer make sense to divide people by race at all.
Good analysis but you shouldn't give Dr. Estes a pass. To remind folks, Estes is the Native American "expert" they hauled out and made many false statements during his snippets. Two obvious ones were first, he as a member of the Sioux Nation states the Sioux always lived/owned the Black Hills until whitey moved into the area. The reality was the Sioux were driven out of Minnesota and Wisconsin by the Chippewa. Arriving in the Dakotas they enslaved and liquidated the Kiowa, the Omaha, the Ponca, the Oto and the Pawnee without mercy. (FYI the Comanche regularly murdered Apaches as the Apaches regularly murdered the Navahos and everybody killed the Pueblo) Second, he conveniently skips over the huge numbers of black slaves owned by Native Americans who were just as brutal as plantation owners.
The show does not single out white people as a people rather singles out indignity and bigotry which is commonly portrayed by bigots toward all minorities. It does not say that any race is superior so thus does not amplify racism. It simply deconstructs racism through history and currently and attaches current attitudes and rhetoric used by bigots to expose the inequality they represent.
Something really tragic happens to the minds of Black writers, thinkers and academics under the white liberal dispensation: they are encouraged to constantly be venting rage and performing victimhood, trained to cry about how EXHAUSTED they are and to parade their scars for money and attention, to pretend that Jim Crow would be immediately reinstated if not for the kindness and protection of their white liberal protectors, to make believe that we still live in the America of 1950 or 1850; basically Black pain becomes sold as a luxury commodity for upscale white liberals (and the journalists and producers who package the product).
In the white liberal dispensation, Black people are denied agency and responsibility, they don't get to be fallible humans but always first and foremost either SYMBOLS (of the sins of our forefathers and esp of those other Bad Whites over there) or as talismans/amulets: all good white liberals make sure to put a BLM sign on their lawn or profile, and our media outlets know to put a Black face on a magazine or billboard, this way everyone knows they're on the side of the angels.
But if someone (w/ someone being more or less the upscale white liberals who control just about all of our media and journalism) is encouraging you to be a helpless victim, patronizing you with sentimental essentialist platitudes as if you were the literal incarnation of Rousseau's Noble Savage, constantly reminding you that THERE ARE THOSE OTHER PEOPLE OVER THERE who hate and want to destroy you, encouraging you to lose emotional self-control and the ability to reason clearly, they are not trying to help you, they are trying to manipulate you.
I can only say that our forebearers in the first half of the 20th century who withstood real racism could not imagine how radically changed America would become and the extraordinary privilege African Americans now enjoy. Dare I say, they would not have understood the unproductive and untruths spewed by the wokesters. The absolute silliness, and quite frankly low self-esteem reflected in a film such as this is absolutely depressing. I'm embarrassed.
Well, the good news is basically nobody is going to watch it; right now it is giving “Santa Inc” a run for its money as the lowest rated show in the history of Rotten Tomatoes at 3% fresh vs 97% rotten, with not a single professional critic reviewing it.
Thank you -- this piece inspired me to become a paid subscriber. As Sam Harris has said (I'm paraphrasing), if you switch out "black" for "white" as in, "What's annoying about black people is when they, you know, kill us," and you sound like the Grand Wizard of the KKK, you might be doing it wrong.
I appreciate the review. Sounds like a docuseries that largely provides the voices of racist black people and gave the impression that those voices represented all black people. Pretty standard these days.
“ Not every black person thinks that reparations should be distributed as a cash payout (Episode Three). ”
Nope. In fact, I think that if any reparations are paid they should be first and foremost paid for directly by the Democratic Party, the party that so many black people these days have an unjustified loyalty to. The fact that many black people think reparations are owed to them and yet those same black people don’t seek first reparations from the party that fought a war to keep our ancestors in slavery and then took reparations given to our ancestors and gave them back to the former slave owners is absolutely tragic.
I have even written an essay about the history of the Democratic Party and its unaccepted legacy. I would very much like this essay printed on Free Black Thought.
It’s essential reading I think for any American, black or white, or purple, who has any concern about America’s legacy of slavery and racial oppression. Because that history is largely used as a political weapon by one party that perversely is the organization that is still around that is most responsible for that legacy of slavery and racial oppression. The Democratic Party once fought a war to keep black people enslaved and the Democratic Party now fights to keep black people pawns and subjects dependent on their political spoils. The black people who benefit the most from oversized loyalty to the Democratic Party are mostly racists and race hustlers.
That all said, I am no Republican — and never voted for a Republican for president. History is what it is though, and it is past time more black people wake up to the Democratic Party’s past.
My essay, I implore you to publish it:
https://minorityreport.substack.com/p/accepting-the-obvious
so well said!
Great article
There does come a time when folks just stop listening to 'racism 24/7'...and if it's not here already, it's fast approaching. ie. It's not always about you....
There seems to be an assembly line somewhere churning out half-assed documentaries. George Washington owned slaves? Jesus wasn’t white? They really did some deep research.
Thank you for this!
I didn't watch it, but now I kinda want to! You hilariously spoiled it for me (people shooting the shit at a cookout????), and I thank you for it, as we will need a lot of humor and self-deprecation to survive these incredible years of dark visuals and terrible ideas.
Well said, a fine summary of the huge disservice being done to Black people by their Liberal White Saviors and, sadly, their Black "leaders" and activists. Which latter DO get paid.
It seems to me that the race essentialism point is to be MADE true via shifting definitions. When Biden said those who don't vote for him aren't Black, he was treating "Black" not as a race or some set of genetic markers, but rather as an exclusive sociopolitical group defined by combining African ancestry with political ideology. This is why Clarence Thomas isn't considered black, for example. By changing what it means to be Black to require a particular political viewpoint, they can then confidently say that all "Black" people think this way or that way.
I'm concerned that by playing with definitions this way the ultimate goal is to keep alive race-based conflicts long after the point where it would otherwise no longer make sense to divide people by race at all.
Good analysis but you shouldn't give Dr. Estes a pass. To remind folks, Estes is the Native American "expert" they hauled out and made many false statements during his snippets. Two obvious ones were first, he as a member of the Sioux Nation states the Sioux always lived/owned the Black Hills until whitey moved into the area. The reality was the Sioux were driven out of Minnesota and Wisconsin by the Chippewa. Arriving in the Dakotas they enslaved and liquidated the Kiowa, the Omaha, the Ponca, the Oto and the Pawnee without mercy. (FYI the Comanche regularly murdered Apaches as the Apaches regularly murdered the Navahos and everybody killed the Pueblo) Second, he conveniently skips over the huge numbers of black slaves owned by Native Americans who were just as brutal as plantation owners.
The show does not single out white people as a people rather singles out indignity and bigotry which is commonly portrayed by bigots toward all minorities. It does not say that any race is superior so thus does not amplify racism. It simply deconstructs racism through history and currently and attaches current attitudes and rhetoric used by bigots to expose the inequality they represent.
It's a great show in documentary style. It did nothing to embarrass us. Stuff like this is more embarrassing