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.
Isn't that in essence the reason the DNC is against voter ID, black folks just are too ill equipped to go down and get proper identification, soft bigotry of low expectations.
And yet requiring ID to buy a beer, open a bank account, get on a cruise ship or fly on a plane is not racist for some reason. How is it that black people are perfectly capable of getting ID in every other context but voting?
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.
What about structural bigotry against African Americans? John McWhorter wrote an entire book on this subject, "Woke Racism."
Is the European intelligentsia waging a psychological war against African Americans by colonizing minds with inferiority complex to damage self confidence?
I'm afraid you misinterpreted John's book as he does not view structural bigotry as the cause of black pathology.
Insofar as Europeans waging a psych war by colonizing AAs with an inferiority complex... just wondering how is that achieved. In any event, let's bottle it, colonize Putin, and free the Ukranian people.
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.
First, excellent point by way of Sam Harris, yes! His phrase is a great test for whether or not what you are saying is stupidly racist. Second, thank you SO much for becoming a paying subscriber!
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.
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 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.
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.
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....
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.
I can't watch it! Because even though I am white, or not-white, or dirty white, or spicy white (depending on who is doing the naming), I'm not 'privileged' enough to be able to afford a subscription to Showtime.
I don't pay for Showtime, I get it for free. First, you go here: https://ustvgo.tv/showtime/ to get access to it and 90 other channels for free, Then second, download a free VPN from Proton here: https://protonvpn.com/ Then finally access the Showtime channel thru ustvgo with the free Proton VPN activated and boom, you get Showtime for free!
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.
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.
It's the myth of the "noble savage" that the tribes lived in peace together in some type of Eden. Some tribes cooperated and certainly that grew when the US Army were moved in to press tribes on to reservations, but all I've written are facts, you just have to look it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_Canyon
Haven't yet asked this question of native american tribal leaders and elders. I can.
Much of modern history has been heavily distorted.
What would you say about the liberal "Iroqois Confederacy"?
The modern USA, USA culture, USA values, USA freedom, USA science and technology are in many ways a customization and evolution of the Iroquois Confederacy.
There were some tribes that did some negative things. But these were minority exceptions that didn't apply to other native americans, including the great Iroquois confederacy:
We should remember that almost all the the technologically and culturally advanced civilizations of the Americas were decimated by a great health pandemic that came after 1492, that might have killed 95% or so of the population. [Which I would not blame on the Europeans. The Spanish and Portuguese were medically, scientifically and technologically backward compared to the American civilizations in 1492 AD.]
Just imagine how great the great American nations were pre 1492.
I'm not suggesting that many tribes were not peaceful with each other as well as to the French and British when they showed up. The Iroquois confederacy had an influence on the what the Founding Fathers looked to create as did the constitution of Switzerland, British democracy and the Greek city-states. But Native Americans are human beings and so they have the same positive and negative qualities of all human beings. Before and after the Europeans showed up, Native Americans fought, killed, enslaved, tortured, stole women, and took over land that others Native Americans inhabited. I should point out that the Iroquois Confederacy was composed of other Iroquois speaking tribes. In the Beaver Wars the Iroquois destroyed several confederacies and tribes through warfare: the Hurons or Wendat, Erie, Neutral, Wenro, Tionontate, Susquehannock, Mahican and northern Algonquins whom they defeated and dispersed, some fleeing to neighboring peoples and others assimilated, routed and killed. Both Algonquian and Iroquoian societies were greatly disrupted by these wars.
My larger point is that history is complex and all human beings often do nasty things. The problem with this moronic series that it is trying to create and perpetuate its own distorted version of the past. That's as destructive and sickening as if Showtime gave Richard Spencer of the KKK the green light and money to tell the "untold but true story" of white people.
2.) this docuseries / mockumentary is surprisingly Narcissistic!! first woman says she can’t stand to see white women cry. I understand not having sympathy for someone who is faking it, but that’s not limited to “White” women (or even gender) only. But it’s also not the first time I have heard a black woman basically callously state “I can’t stand to see White women cry.” I remember the first time I heard a (black) woman say that, I automatically thought “well then I don’t care what you think or have to say.” How narcissisticly callous a human being do you have to be to not hear yourself (and how immoral you have become), even when played back to you in a video??!!
always enjoy reading your posts and this one in particular. The focus has always been on looking at the "far right" to explain racial issues in the country but increasingly the far left , the wokemeisters, have become just as much a problem if not even more so by being counter productive and almost relishing in racial disparities. I think if you were to present King's 6 principals of nonviolence in such a way as not to be coming from him they would be rejected by self anointed activists. I don't think they are seeking resolution as much as they enjoy reveling in the conflict.
Unfortunately I suspect the far leftists and black race essentialists are trying to start a revolution- 1.) the communist part of the far left wants to take down American style democracy and principles, and the black racists of the far left want the same thing the white racists want/ed which is power, control, $$ and “privilege (defined as I get to do whatever I want and it’s considered acceptable) for the next 400 years AS “reparations.” 😔 Sadly I have already experienced this trickle down casual black racism a few times in my life, but have especially since 2020. Like people literally getting up from the table I sit down at, surreptitiously but also not so surreptitiously, in various public educational programs for agriculture!! They go sit “with other black people”. I’m not taking this personally, it’s just more noticeable than ever given the current state of things and the acceptance of “all white people are White Devils (yes there is a kids book on Amazon that actually portrays that literally.) These are such dark times we live in and AI has entered the picture and like computers of the past, it is only as “good” as the data people enter into it. When they have hooked it up to the internet they have literally had to unplug it or limit it seriously and consciously by humans because it becomes our worst selves!!! Ouch. 😣 I pray 🙏 for us all.
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.
Isn't that in essence the reason the DNC is against voter ID, black folks just are too ill equipped to go down and get proper identification, soft bigotry of low expectations.
And yet requiring ID to buy a beer, open a bank account, get on a cruise ship or fly on a plane is not racist for some reason. How is it that black people are perfectly capable of getting ID in every other context but voting?
Very well stated!
hey thx! big fan of your work :)
"Something really tragic happens to the minds of Black writers, thinkers and academics under the white liberal dispensation..."
I see what you did there.
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.
Do African Americans enjoy privilege?
What about structural bigotry against African Americans? John McWhorter wrote an entire book on this subject, "Woke Racism."
Is the European intelligentsia waging a psychological war against African Americans by colonizing minds with inferiority complex to damage self confidence?
I'm afraid you misinterpreted John's book as he does not view structural bigotry as the cause of black pathology.
Insofar as Europeans waging a psych war by colonizing AAs with an inferiority complex... just wondering how is that achieved. In any event, let's bottle it, colonize Putin, and free the Ukranian people.
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.
First, excellent point by way of Sam Harris, yes! His phrase is a great test for whether or not what you are saying is stupidly racist. Second, thank you SO much for becoming a paying subscriber!
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.
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
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.
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.
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....
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.
I can't watch it! Because even though I am white, or not-white, or dirty white, or spicy white (depending on who is doing the naming), I'm not 'privileged' enough to be able to afford a subscription to Showtime.
I don't pay for Showtime, I get it for free. First, you go here: https://ustvgo.tv/showtime/ to get access to it and 90 other channels for free, Then second, download a free VPN from Proton here: https://protonvpn.com/ Then finally access the Showtime channel thru ustvgo with the free Proton VPN activated and boom, you get Showtime for free!
so well said!
Great article
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.
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.
Will ask my native american friends about what you said.
Native Americans had a large confederacies that united many tribes.
It's the myth of the "noble savage" that the tribes lived in peace together in some type of Eden. Some tribes cooperated and certainly that grew when the US Army were moved in to press tribes on to reservations, but all I've written are facts, you just have to look it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_Canyon
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/6/v06i01p041-045.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_slave_ownership
Haven't yet asked this question of native american tribal leaders and elders. I can.
Much of modern history has been heavily distorted.
What would you say about the liberal "Iroqois Confederacy"?
The modern USA, USA culture, USA values, USA freedom, USA science and technology are in many ways a customization and evolution of the Iroquois Confederacy.
There were some tribes that did some negative things. But these were minority exceptions that didn't apply to other native americans, including the great Iroquois confederacy:
https://www.pbs.org/native-america/blogs/native-voices/how-the-iroquois-great-law-of-peace-shaped-us-democracy/
We should remember that almost all the the technologically and culturally advanced civilizations of the Americas were decimated by a great health pandemic that came after 1492, that might have killed 95% or so of the population. [Which I would not blame on the Europeans. The Spanish and Portuguese were medically, scientifically and technologically backward compared to the American civilizations in 1492 AD.]
Just imagine how great the great American nations were pre 1492.
I'm not suggesting that many tribes were not peaceful with each other as well as to the French and British when they showed up. The Iroquois confederacy had an influence on the what the Founding Fathers looked to create as did the constitution of Switzerland, British democracy and the Greek city-states. But Native Americans are human beings and so they have the same positive and negative qualities of all human beings. Before and after the Europeans showed up, Native Americans fought, killed, enslaved, tortured, stole women, and took over land that others Native Americans inhabited. I should point out that the Iroquois Confederacy was composed of other Iroquois speaking tribes. In the Beaver Wars the Iroquois destroyed several confederacies and tribes through warfare: the Hurons or Wendat, Erie, Neutral, Wenro, Tionontate, Susquehannock, Mahican and northern Algonquins whom they defeated and dispersed, some fleeing to neighboring peoples and others assimilated, routed and killed. Both Algonquian and Iroquoian societies were greatly disrupted by these wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Wars#:~:text=The%20Iroquois%20attacked%20their%20traditional,into%20conflict%20directly%20with%20them.
My larger point is that history is complex and all human beings often do nasty things. The problem with this moronic series that it is trying to create and perpetuate its own distorted version of the past. That's as destructive and sickening as if Showtime gave Richard Spencer of the KKK the green light and money to tell the "untold but true story" of white people.
Some of them did. Historicially, people band together to defend themselves or gang up on other groups of people.
2.) this docuseries / mockumentary is surprisingly Narcissistic!! first woman says she can’t stand to see white women cry. I understand not having sympathy for someone who is faking it, but that’s not limited to “White” women (or even gender) only. But it’s also not the first time I have heard a black woman basically callously state “I can’t stand to see White women cry.” I remember the first time I heard a (black) woman say that, I automatically thought “well then I don’t care what you think or have to say.” How narcissisticly callous a human being do you have to be to not hear yourself (and how immoral you have become), even when played back to you in a video??!!
always enjoy reading your posts and this one in particular. The focus has always been on looking at the "far right" to explain racial issues in the country but increasingly the far left , the wokemeisters, have become just as much a problem if not even more so by being counter productive and almost relishing in racial disparities. I think if you were to present King's 6 principals of nonviolence in such a way as not to be coming from him they would be rejected by self anointed activists. I don't think they are seeking resolution as much as they enjoy reveling in the conflict.
Unfortunately I suspect the far leftists and black race essentialists are trying to start a revolution- 1.) the communist part of the far left wants to take down American style democracy and principles, and the black racists of the far left want the same thing the white racists want/ed which is power, control, $$ and “privilege (defined as I get to do whatever I want and it’s considered acceptable) for the next 400 years AS “reparations.” 😔 Sadly I have already experienced this trickle down casual black racism a few times in my life, but have especially since 2020. Like people literally getting up from the table I sit down at, surreptitiously but also not so surreptitiously, in various public educational programs for agriculture!! They go sit “with other black people”. I’m not taking this personally, it’s just more noticeable than ever given the current state of things and the acceptance of “all white people are White Devils (yes there is a kids book on Amazon that actually portrays that literally.) These are such dark times we live in and AI has entered the picture and like computers of the past, it is only as “good” as the data people enter into it. When they have hooked it up to the internet they have literally had to unplug it or limit it seriously and consciously by humans because it becomes our worst selves!!! Ouch. 😣 I pray 🙏 for us all.
Sorry I never got around to 2.) I’ll have to approach that later, I’m late ⏰ 🥴 Peace ☮️