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I’ve talked about it many times, any time a black voice of reason is given media attention, they are mocked, degraded and silenced by other blacks for “acting white” and being race traitors. The biggest obstacle halting black progress and prosperity in the United States is not racism or cops, it’s the black groupthink and tribalism we enforce on each other, never allowed to sway from the victim culture, stumping individuality and reasoning before it can attract a crowd. 

Stevie Wonder was recently blasted by black activists for encouraging black youth to stop shooting each other. Now it’s Charles Barkely’s turn to be called a race traitor, for suggesting these black activists should be focusing on more important things than tearing down statues, such as education and working hard. In typical regressive fashion, the Root asked its readers in response, “Is there anyone who thinks that Barkley’s statements about race reveal anything other than his repeated willingness to throw black people under the bus for our unwillingness to assimilate into whiteness?”

Michael Harriot filed his article “Charles Barkley Is a Great Example of a Black White Supremacist” under ‘Stupid Negroes,’ before going on to call any black person who agrees with Barkley a “right-leaning Negro conservative” who “exemplifies the black man’s subconscious acceptance of white superiority.” Harriot goes on to say that Barkley’s viewpoints of black Americans being educated, working hard and succeeding “coincides with those of the oppressors of black America” and these ideals will not “solve the race problem," instead “it makes a platform for white supremacy.” 

The rest of the Root article encourages its readers to stop listening to the advice of black people if it’s about bettering black people. “Here’s an important piece of advice: Whenever anyone begins a sentence with “What we as black people need to do is,” stop listening immediately. What is sure to follow will be... White-people solutions. To be clear, these aren’t solutions for or by white people. Instead, they are the imaginings of black people who are white supremacists. Black white supremacists believe that the only correct way to do things is how they envision the white man would do it. A black white supremacist could never find anything wrong with a white man’s methodology, so he or she continually contorts him- or herself to end up on the Caucasian side of the argument.” 

In every race-related debate, black activists start every conversation with fierce conviction that the white man’s foot remains pressed upon all black Americans necks. Challenging this idea is called racist if you’re white, blacks who question this claim are called self-deluded uncle toms and in this case, black white supremacists. Their conviction rests on several core excuses, carefully passed from person to person, generation to generation of the black community. These myths and severe distortions block freethinkers and true progressives, adding to a deeply felt cult of victimology that refuses to be held accountable and move on with the times to better ourselves and black children. 

Instead of encouraging black youth to advance themselves through education, hard work and strong families, black activists instead dismiss these principles as “white” and rather demand blacks are advanced through affirmative action, receiving free stuff, lowering the standards bar to the ground and enforcing racial quotas. The sense that the properly “black” person can only talk about being black is also why you can count on one hand the number of books by black Americans that are not about race and victimhood. Victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism underlie the general black community’s response to all race-related issues.

Discrimination: A white guy and a black guy apply for a job. The black guy is better qualified, the white guy gets the job.

Affirmative action: A white guy and a black guy apply for a job. The white guy is better qualified, the black guy gets the job.

The first is illegal, the other is celebrated.

We are told by the left and black activists that affirmative action is invaluable to fight ‘racial discrimination.’ The irony is overwhelming, I know. Like many of their make believe injustices though, ‘institutional racial discrimination against black people’ does not exist in the United States today. 

The classic case of racial discrimination as shown above is illegal. It does not happen and nobody can prove otherwise. So without actual evidence of a system where the majority of employers have colluded to discriminate against and deliberately keep black people out of work and as a society we normalize it, which is what the institutional racism conspiracy is, they try their hand at mathematics in an attempt to give their accusations some credibility. This is where it all goes to shit. 

It goes something like this: “Well in Tulsa, blacks are eight percent of the population but they are only four percent of employees at Walmart in Tulsa therefore Walmart is discriminating against blacks and EEOC are justified to file a lawsuit for racial discrimination.” 

Yet in reality, all we have here is the belief that Walmart is discriminating against four percent of Tulsa’s black population, simply for being black. This is not proof of institutional racial bias. This is a paranoid and lazy assumption to explain why those four percent of blacks aren’t working at Walmart. 

Today we have forced proportional representation onto employers and when that proportionality doesn’t add up even slightly, there’s an instant presumption of discrimination and the burden falls to the employer to prove why there is a numerical discrepancy and often they are sued for millions regardless of reason.

But what is the basis of the proof that blacks are being deliberately and systemically discriminated against in hiring? Nobody knows. Are there signs out the front of shops stating ‘we aren’t hiring colored folk’? Are we now including the color of skin on our resumés and employers are putting any that aren’t white through the shredder? There is no evidence of institutional racism preventing blacks from becoming employed because it isn’t happening. Why is the accountability on employers to hire x amount of black people instead of the accountability being on black people to be employable on their own merit?

There is virtually no company today that has not adopted various affirmative action plans, they are literally handing out jobs to unqualified black people just so they don’t get sued for not having enough black people. But we want to believe that employers are deliberately breaking the law just so they can get on with discriminating against black people? Give me a break. 

This is not a closed issue, if there is any real evidence of it happening then it should be exposed but we’re still waiting for that day. If you want to make a case for something as serious as institutional racial discrimination against black people in modern America, you have to go into the concrete evidence and if it’s the epidemic you claim it to be, then it should be quick and easy to prove. Yet it’s not.

It’s not enough to say “well the black population of this town is six percent and the amount of black employees at this store is only four percent” because as feminists have found out with their wage gap equation, there’s a little pesky thing called variables which all too often explain minor numerical discrepancies rather than the idea of evil white oppressive patriarchies of old men.  

I made this post only the other day. It was about how the blatantly obvious link between majority of the recent police shootings is young people have no idea how to behave around police so as to keep themselves safe. 

Today I found out there’s a new bill which was proposed by the New Jersey Assembly that compels training to youth on how to interact with police and avoid confrontation. But then I saw Black Lives Matter are trying to stop it.  

What? Educating young people on how to act and keep themselves safe when they are in confrontation with the police, how could that ever be a bad thing? They know that if black youth stopped resisting arrest, or let’s be honest, stopped committing a largely disproportionate amount of crime and homicide to begin with, it would result in less consequences which means they lose their victim status which leads to a stoppage of funds, donations and credibility. 

“This bill is clearly designed to create a scapegoat for police brutality, and that scapegoat is New Jersey’s children,” leading organizer of BLM, Alexis Miller, said. “It does nothing to address the laws already in place that protect the immense power of police departments. Students, children are expected to master the idea of respectability politics in order to protect themselves from officers.”

I understand that we have a problem with police brutality but the way to fight against it isn’t by resisting arrest, it’s not by running or refusing commands or trying to attack cops or shouting racism at the top of your voice as you’re fighting with the officer. The best time to understand what’s going on, to complain about racist cops, to demand they are punished for their treatment of you, the time to go ballistic is after cooperating with them. 

This is the most fatal mistake people are making and it’s a lesson BLM and all of us should be teaching our youth. We have to put accountability on both the person and the police to make sure the situation stays safe for everyone, that includes citizens and officers as let’s remember, cops are nearly 20 times more likely to be shot and killed than an unarmed black person. Yesterday, a black female officer was shot dead in an unprovoked ambush, where’s Black Lives Matter? 

Of course most of the accountability has to be on the cop but your choices also have consequences so it’s about educating youth about not making stupid ones. Instead, they protest against it, they are doing all they can to block the bill when it reaches the Senate and they continue to teach black youth that it’s empowering the black cause to resist arrest and antagonize cops, to be shot by a cop they preach will make you a black martyr and give the movement substance. 

A big reason why the black communities today are failing to progress and keep up is not because of racism, it is not because ‘the legacy of slavery,’ it’s not because of white people or Donald Trump, it’s because they are brought up as if the year is still 1917 and they can’t let go. It’s a symbol of black empowerment to teach the kids about their history which is great, but it’s also important to seperate history from present day which so many fail to do. Black children are coaxed into watching old newsreels of black civil rights protesters being hosed, beaten, and dragged off to prison. They watch Norman Lear-like sitcoms and get told stories and read accounts of black America before the civil rights movement and the assassination of MLK. Such things would fill any child with horror. Yet you would imagine it would also encourage them to feel grateful and excited to live in times of equal rights and treatment and liberty for all, as it does with any other race or civilization looking back on its tragic and troubling past.

Yet most blacks who do realize this are usually the odd one out among other black Americans. In every race-related debate, whether it’s Black Lives Matter, any of the police shootings, the Million Man March, Ebonics or affirmative action, most blacks start every conversation with fierce conviction that even 150 years after slavery and decades after the Civil Rights Act, the white man’s foot remains pressed upon all black Americans’ necks. Challenging this idea is called racist, we are told to just “shut up and listen.” For most black Americans, the rapid increase of the black middle class, of interracial relationships and marriages, and of blacks in prestigious positions including our President for the past eight years, has no bearing on the real state of black America. Further, they believe, whites’ inability to grasp the unmistakable reality of oppression is itself proof of savage racism, while blacks who question this claim are called self-deluded uncle toms. Individuality is rare in black America. 

Black leaders and movements mouth the ideology of victimhood for political advantage, “Confrontation works,” as Al Sharpton has calculatingly observed. But most rank-and-file exponents of the “racism forever” worldview really mean it. Their conviction rests on several core excuses, carefully passed from person to person, generation to generation at all levels of the black community. These myths and severe distortions of truth are the biggest obstacle to further black progress in today’s America, adding up to a deeply felt cult of victimology that refuses to be held accountable and move on with the times. Some subscribe to it fiercely, most accept it as a valid point of view. The black leaders and the voices of black lives matter, who launches into a tirade about the War on Blacks, receive nodding heads all over as they absorb this indoctrination.

You’d think that a group committed to advancement would find empowerment in fighting new challenges such as the ones plaguing their own communities but instead they focus on challenges that have already been fought and won decades ago or ones that simply do not exist. But many blacks, inevitably, suffer from a classic post-colonial inferiority complex. Like insecure people everywhere, they are driven by a private sense of personal inadequacy to seeing imaginary obstacles to their success supposedly planted by others. Once the 1968 Kerner Commission report fueled that tendency by positing that American racism was an institutional, systemic matter rather than a merely personal one, black leaders and thinkers gripped on tight and black Americans still hold onto this idea as if their lives depend on it being real.

In the grip of this seductive ideology, blacks have made the immobilizing assumption that individual initiative can lead only to failure, with only a few exceptionally lucky exceptions. Yet many groups have triumphed over similar or worse obstacles, including millions of Caribbean and African immigrants in America, from Colin Powell to the thousands of Caribbean children succeeding in precisely the crumbling schools where black American kids fail. Indeed, thinkers such as Thomas Sowell and Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom argue that American blacks could have advanced, and were advancing, even without the civil rights legislation of the sixties and the racial preferences of the seventies, since black unemployment was at an all-time low in the mid-sixties, and the black middle class was already growing fast. But these facts can’t outweigh the almost narcotic pleasure that underdoggism provides a race plagued by self-doubt. The victimology cult has in turn engendered a cult of black separatism. Inspired by the Black Power movement of the 1960s, which violently rejected whites as terminally evil, today’s separatism, in the same vein, flirts disastrously with the idea that, because white racism ineluctably drives black people outside the bounds of civic virtue, blacks shouldn’t be seriously punished or morally condemned for criminal behavior. If they call their violence a reaction against racism, anything goes, regardless of any other factor such as the truth. The consequences of this are rising all throughout the country today, as they have done in the past and it’s a real concern.

The worst result of black America keeping themselves in a separate realm to its “oppressors,” is the widespread cult of anti-intellectualism. Consider even in middle-class suburbs, increasing numbers of middle-class black students tend to cluster at the bottom of their schools in grades and test scores. Black students whose parents earn $70,000 a year or more make median SAT scores lower than impoverished white students whose parents make $6,000 a year or less, while black students whose parents both have graduate degrees make mean SAT scores lower than white students whose parents only completed high school. Why? All through modern black American culture, even throughout black academia, the belief prevails that learning for learning’s sake is a white affair, spelling properly and talking properly is a white thing and therefore inherently disloyal to a proper black identity. Studying black-related issues is okay, because learning about oneself is authentic. But this impulse also implicitly classifies higher education as irrelevant, which is the direct cause of the underrepresentation of minorities in the hard sciences and other major fields. But hey, it’s okay, affirmative action resolves that, we can just hand out some scholarships and lower the bar to the ground, enforce racial quotas and hey presto, we have equal representation to keep the race baiters happy. 

The sense that the properly “black” person only delves into topics related to himself is also why you can count on one hand the number of books by black Americans that are not on racial topics. The belief that blacks and school don’t go together gained strength in the mid-1960s, when black panther separatists rejected traits associated with whites as alien, and black students, in this spirit, began teasing their fellows who strove to excel in school as “acting white,” a much harsher taunt than merely dismissing them as nerds and this trend has continued well into today. The “acting white” charge, which implies that you think yourself different from and better than your peers, is the prime reason that blacks do poorly in school and why the drop out rates are so high. The gifted black student quickly faces a choice between peer group acceptance and intellectual achievement. Most, out of an utterly human impulse, choose the former. Even if they open themselves to schooling in college or later, their performance all too often permanently suffers from the message they long ago internalized that “the school thing” is an add-on, not a mix-in.

The prevailing orthodoxy lays the blame on other factors, of course, but none of them withstands scrutiny. The fact that the children of working poor immigrants, including Asian and Indian and many other non-whites, who often do well in school and actually do far, far better economically and academically than whites, disproves the claim that their working-class roots deny today’s newly middle-class blacks to teach their children to excel in school. The success of Southeast Asian immigrants’ children particular in the same terrible inner-city schools in which black students fail disproves the Jonathan Kozol gospel that it is the “savage inequality” of school funding that makes black kids fail. Claude Steele at one point made the famous and influential argument that middle-class black students only underachieve in school because fear of confirming the stereotype of black mental inferiority makes them choke up on tests. There may be a grain of truth to this but again, all accountability and blame is shifted onto somebody else while the convenience and safety of victimhood is indulged in. 

Victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism underlie the general black community’s response to all race-related issues. The response to affirmative action is a case in point. Blacks see it as a policy that appropriately bends the rules for a group of people who believe are owed something, a notion that today, when middle-class blacks are a massive and thriving group in American society, can only seem plausible through the lens of victimology. The defense of affirmative action on the grounds of “diversity” is an expression of separatism. Since there are not enough black students to be admitted to selective schools on the same merits as the other students, beyond a certain cut-off point blacks are being valued for their skin color rather than their academic accomplishments, everything MLK was against. This is a state of affairs, moreover, that requires a strong dose of anti-intellectualism to accept without discomfort. And the same anti-intellectualism rests content with the flimsy reasoning behind all defenses of affirmative action: that it is immoral for colleges to require a top-quality dossier from the black child of a doctor and a corporate manager simply because he’s black.

Today, these three thought patterns impede black advancement much more than racism and the dysfunctional inner cities, the broken families and black on black crime and black educational underachievement will persist until such thinking disappears. In my experience, trying to show many black Americans how mistaken and counterproductive these ideas are is like trying to convince a religious person that God does not exist: the sentiments are beyond the reach of rational, civil discourse and I get that, it’s almost impossible to overcome but just as we reform religions, I think the black narrative is also in much need of reformation as well, it is severely outdated. There was a time when fighting and decrying institutional racism was the main task at hand, and blacks of today’s generation owe gratitude to those who did it, their comfortable and privileged lives would be impossible without the sacrifices and efforts made by everyone who was a part of the revolution. Today, though, these people are well-intentioned relics of another era, an era they in their moment helped us to get past. Our main concern must be with new generations, who can fulfill their potential only in an America where victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism don’t flourish among black Americans. There are two main paths to this goal.

First, it’s time for well-intentioned whites to stop pardoning “understandable” the worst of human nature whenever black people exhibit it. The person one pities is a person one may like but does not truly respect. Second, it’s time for our selective educational institutions to eliminate affirmative action in admissions. This policy may have been useful in the 1960s in creating a black middle class. Today, however, it can only be classed as discriminatory. To achieve in any endeavor, people need incentives. As long as top colleges exempt black students of all classes from serious competition, their admissions officers shouldn’t wonder why so few black students submit top-class dossiers. Only without such a policy will parents, teachers, and school boards, genuinely alarmed at drop-offs in “diversity” in institutions of higher learning, start to help black children become truly competitive for selective schools. What happened after California ended legalized racial preferences in 1995 is a case in point. Programs exploded throughout the state to prepare minorities to be competitive and to eliminate their financial barriers to college.

Eliminating affirmative action will also help dispel black college students’ resentment-tinged anxiety that their white classmates dismiss them as affirmative action picks. It will promote richer interracial contact among students poised to become the nation’s leaders as they will then all be truly on an equal playing field. The black student who can confidently claim to be on campus for the exact same reasons that white and Asian students are, they would be less likely to feel defensive and indulge in victimhood and less likely to be paranoid about their white classmates being covert racists. I believe the time has come for such changes. Sure, these ideas will be condemned, branded racist and repulsive but I also know it has to be said. There was a crucial and damaging change in black ideology in the mid-1960s which we are at risk of not only repeating but making even worse today. 

Black youth to Stevie Wonder: Stevie Wonder is a coon. Now we know why black Jesus hasn’t restored his eyesight. He’s blind to racism in America. Every other black person that believes this foolishness is crazy. This ni**a smokin braille? It breaks my heart to see older black folks still shucking and jiving (pandering to whites.) Let's be real, the man is blind, LITERALLY! Unless you tell him blk ppl are dying he won't know. Of course he couldn't see our pain. Ni**a just stay blind and stick to playing the piano. Tell Stevie that he's black. 

The biggest threat to black lives today isn’t racism, it’s each other. The reason why so many blacks are incarcerated isn’t racism, it’s because they commit an overwhelming, staggeringly disproportionate amount of crime and homicide against themselves and all races. The reason why there isn’t a more equal representation of blacks in the sciences and other academic fields is not because of racism, it’s because they shame education as being a ‘white thing.’ I get that we have to talk about police brutality but shouldn’t a group naming themselves black lives matter focus on all black lives, not just the few? 

There could be highly rational people advocating under the banner of BLM but where are they? All we’ve seen from them, often filtered through the left-wing media is dangerously irrational. We can easily establish that black lives matter do not care about all black lives, if they did they would talk about the problems plaguing black communities and they would not want law enforcement removed. So if it’s not about all black people, then we focus on their one and arguably only narrative - ‘racist cops slaughtering innocent blacks for fun.’ Here’s the problem, in majority of police shooting cases, the use of force is legitimate. There are cases where there is no reason for firing their weapon and those police officers have been charged. If you resist arrest though, attack a cop or try to grab his gun as Michael Brown did for example, it is only rational for him to believe that you are dangerous and you intend on seriously harming him. What other reason is there for you to physically resist arrest?

The thing we have to understand is, each of these cases are totally unlike the other and it’s important to differentiate from one another instead of painting them all under ‘another racist cop kills a black.’ Even the video recordings can be profoundly misleading because some start after the shooting occurred and some don't show you what the cops themselves saw and so you can't really judge whether it was irrational for them to feel that their lives were in danger. When we have BLM rioting over a black guy who was shot while reading a book when in reality the book was clearly a gun, we know evidence matters little when it comes to BLM who are so desperate for their narrative to be true. Many of them ignore the fact that blacks are 18.5 times more likely to shoot and kill a police officer than be killed by an officer himself. The police know this, if anyone’s life is consistently in danger, it’s the cops. They get shot and killed at traffic stops, they get shot and killed while asking questions, they are always expecting the worst and with very good reason. 

The overwhelming link between these police confrontations that we have seen is that people don't understand how to behave around police so as to keep themselves safe. The very first thing we have to learn is to stop resisting arrest. This is something black lives matter should be teaching as it would have saved almost every criminal they have rioted over. As I’ve said in the past, they already have the perfect slogan for it - ‘Hands up, don’t shoot,’ it was a slogan used to push the myth that Michael Brown had his hands up but if Michael Brown actually followed this simple step, he would be alive today. If you put your hands up and comply, your chances of being shot drop to around zero percent, especially if you have not committed a crime and are unarmed. The second you put your hands on a cop, you wrestle him, you ignore commands, you grab him or push him or strike him, you are very likely to get shot. 

Here’s the thing, when you're with a cop there's a gun out in the open and any physical struggle has to be perceived by him as a fight for the gun. Again, a police officer doesn't know what you're going to do, if you physically overpower him then he has to assume the worst. Most cops are not so confident in their ability to physically control a person with just their hands and for good reason because they actually aren’t very well trained in this area and they're continually confronting people who are bigger than them, younger and more athletic and powerful or more aggressive. They're not superheroes, these are just ordinary people with surprisingly little training and once things turn physical they really can't afford to lose control of the situation. 

This is again something that people are totally confused about, they think that if they see a video of somebody trying to punch a cop in the face and the person is unarmed well then the cop should just be punching back and any use of deadly force is unwarranted. This is insanity. it's not the cops job to be the best bare-knuckle boxer on earth, he can't afford to get hit in the head and risk getting knocked out because again, there's a gun on the table. This is the cop’s perception of the world and it is a justifiable one given the dynamics of human violence and what they are confronted with every day. 

I completely support the fact that we should be able to be rude to a cop in our society without being physically punished for it, much less killed and it’s totally right to think that it's a measure of a civilized society that police officers don't start beating you just because you've been disrespectful and that’s a whole other important discussion but it’s also right to insist that people shouldn't be disrespectful and disobey police because it's just simply unwise. Yes it’s the cop’s job to have a very thick skin and be professional in his dealings with the public but do you really want to increase the risk to your own life by testing the guy with a gun? No, you don't want to do that and as frustrating as it may be, you have to just go along with it until everyone feels they are out of danger. 

Think about this, it's never up to you whether or not you should be arrested. How could it be? Does it matter that you know that you didn't do anything wrong? How could that fact be effectively communicated while you refuse to follow police commands and resist them? The whole point of police arresting someone is to remove any threat to themselves before they talk to you, so by resisting arrest, you are making yourself a threat to the police which leads to deadly consequences. So unless you called the police yourself, you actually never know what situation you're in with a cop. You don't know if that cop didn't just get a call that some guy who looks like you and is dressed like you just committed an armed robbery around the block. You know you didn't do anything wrong but the cop doesn’t know that, you have no idea what's in the cops head. So the best time to understand what’s going on, to complain about racist cops, to demand they are punished for their treatment of you, the time to go ballistic is after cooperating with them. 

That’s a fair comparison. The KKK used to be the militant ‘enforcement’ arm of the Democratic party. They were domestic terrorists, there’s no other way to cut it. They would use violence and other means to intimidate citizens from voting against the interests of Democrats. The idiots who took part in this terror would cover their faces to keep anonymous. Anyone seen as possibly legitimizing or speaking in favor of “the enemy” would find themselves the target of a bunch of masked thugs, beating them or possibly killing them for espousing the wrong opinion.

After the KKK fell apart when Democrats decided they could win more votes by pandering to blacks rather than discriminating against them, the party was missing their violent ‘enforcement arm’. They flirted with militant groups such as the Black Panthers and embraced terrorist bombing groups such as the Weather Underground but the Democrats need for control through violence and intimidation wasn’t satisfied, the numbers just weren’t there and the violent leftist movements finally fizzled out. It’s not until the present day that we see a militant domestic terrorism division of the Democratic party that can possibly rival the likes of the KKK in terms of numbers and brashness.

In today’s Democratic party, not a whole lot has changed from the days of the KKK, only the races being discriminated against: now they hate white people. Instead of partnering with the Klan, they cozy up to and fund racial supremacists such as Black Lives Matter and using the exact same logic as in the 19th and early 20th century, they justify violence and terrorism against American citizens who espouse the wrong opinions.

After previous leftist terrorist movements fizzled out, leaders must have realized that in order to create a movement with enough numbers to really grow and evolve, they would have to invent a much more inclusive domestic terrorist group. Enter Antifa. The movement started in Europe and I’m not trying to claim the idea was cooked up by American Democrats. The introduction of Antifa into America thanks to the funding and backing by Democrats, and their alliance with local Democratic mayors and government officials, signals the return of a real domestic terrorism arm of the party - one hellbent on intimidating political opposition into silence through force, and with real numbers that could easily evolve into a force that’s larger than the KKK ever was.