Problem is when we actually made process, Reagan created the war on d**** and locked up a f*** ton of “criminals.” No one cares though

A few niggas love running with that narrative

I see what you’re saying but the problem lies in very few black people holding those positions in the first place.

If more brothers had those positions you would see more solid niggas in there making a difference

Yeah but the problem is, those areas in life are 1 in a million type of stories. You don’t hear the stories about the kid who focused on school and lifted themselces from poverty to the middle class. Those are more realistic ways for social mobility.

While I’m glad that black people have found a success in athletics and whatnot, the narrative that it’s a meritocracy further pushes those who are being oppressed down because it not only sells them on a false dream, it tells everyone else that that’s the acceptable and proper way to lift yourself from poverty, not tackling the systemic issues that surround black people in this country.

For real bro. I’m light skin and the amount of f***ing times I’ve heard “you’re really white for a black persons” or “you’re one of the good ones” or a similar notion is awful. Completely ignores the issue and dehumanizes black people all together. S*** is f***ed up

Been known

If that was true there would be no outrage for all of the injustices against black people. Obviously that’s not the case.

Society cares. The institutions do not.

It depends on where you stay at.

In Baltimore cops/black people always got along because a majority of cops were black and understood how to communicate and police the community.

The only time I remember any f***ed up s*** happening was the Freddie grey situation, and I lived there when it happened and those were white cops who killed him

I know Atlanta, DC, and Charlotte have majority black police forces and you don’t hear much about brutality there either unless it’s a white cop doing it.

Bruh there's definitely a general opinion of African Americans from other races. I have friends who are Africans. In fact Im literally at work with a small community of Africans. They like me. We get along great. But I've been told too many times not to be "like the other black ppl".

Hold up. For the record this isn't aimed at Africans. Y'all just tried to single that point out in one of my posts. This is a general thing. Every foreign nationality has a general view of African Americans. It's not that we have a rhetoric of them. There's a general universal rhetoric of us.

And I get it. As humans we do naturally harbor some ideas of other races. But I think I can speak for most when I say that as African Americans our rhetoric of other races is defensive.

How do I feel about Asians? I feel they look down on African Americans.

How do I feel about whites? I feel they look down on African Americans.

How do I feel about Russians? I feel like they look down on African Americans.

I genuinely feel like I can say that same statement about almost every nationality.

Other races treat us as a whole like we come from a people that are liars thieves rapists and murderers.

Which is ironic cause they hold white ppl to a gold standard when they literally do come from a people that lied stole raped and murdered my ppl.

They treated us like cattle. They beat and bred us like livestock.

Yet the world treats them like they're something to look up to.

That's the world African Americans live in smh

Can’t blame some wypipo for turning a blind eye when stuff like this happens since a lot of yall are on some literal “fuck all white people / we don’t need their help anyway” s*** all the time

And I don’t blame yall for being that way either, I guess I’m trying to say that you can never truly intimidate people into agreeing with you. Doing that on both sides just builds up even more resentment.

and i dont know why

preach op preach

Alas ‘get out’

Foreigners always talking down on African Americans especially Africans.

Yes that’s true

lol ok bruh

I hope you don’t feel that way about Hispanics. I feel African Americans can be just as harsh to us as well. But not saying this to try and start a race war. Mean it in a uniting sense

Who is trying to intimate people to agree with them? And Someone dosent have to like you for you to want them to have equality or basic rights

The people who become more resentful of black people or can't recognize what leads black people towards that thinking werent any true "allies" in the first place then

People on the internet and on social media like twitter who be saying f*** white people type stuff

And I don’t disagree with anything yall are saying itt, I’m just trying to let you know where that disconnect comes from for old white boomers who don’t recognize the privileged lives they lead

What happened to the people talking about “POC solidarity is a myth.”

Are you denying it?

what is the solution you propose?

That's their problem to fix. And apparently they need to hear it from other white people

Its absolutely true, just that they paint it in a way that it's ONLY Africans that look down on African Americans. Both groups do it to each other.