Once one understands that “racial tensions” is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
Since neither black animosity nor the left’s falsehood of “racial tensions” is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks’ perceptions or the leftist libel.
That is why hopes that the election of black president would reduce “racial tensions” were naive. Though a white person is far more likely to be murdered by a black person than vice versa, all it took was one tragic death of a black kid to reignite the hatred that many blacks and virtually all black leaders have toward white America.
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Just because they hate you and you happen to be white, doesn't mean they hate you because you're white. They hate you because you're a bigoted peice of shit.
Also, just because the people who hate you are black, does not mean that everyone who is black hates you, or that everyone who hates you is black. For instance, I hate you and your kind, and I'm as white as your fantasy Jesus. I hate you because (surprise surpeise) you're a bigoted peice of shit.
What you'll find is that the election of a black president didn't change the fact that you're a bigoted peice of shit, and its that fact that means you're still hated as much as you always were, and, unless you change your ways, always will be.
@Warren McIntosh - Exactly. I'm black and I have no animosity towards any white person who isn't a bigot or some other type of scumbag. The white people I have animosity towards for any reason, other than being scumbags (I have animosity towards scumbags of any "race", color or ethnicity), are white people who are either open bigots or white people who play that racism denial game (the "You minorities are just imagining all this racism to justify your race-baiting/failures/hatred of white people!" game).
Truth be told, I probably hate white people who deny racism still exists or is still a widespread problem and Uncle Ruckus/Uncle Tom-type black people who make excuses for institutional and personal racism more than I hate open racists. As a black man I probably hate the latter the most of all. I can stomach open white supremacists more than I can stomach Uncle Toms. At least Klansmen and Neo-Nazis give the courtesy of telling you they're out to kill you. Racism deniers smile in your face and plant a knife in your back while pretending to hug you. Uncle Toms, who stand to lose as much as I do, gladly help Klansmen load & cock their guns aimed at the "darkies" and help push the knife of racism deniers in deeper. I can understand why a white bigot is the way they are - they're afraid of losing their privilege and/or they've absorbed a lifetime of propaganda about black inferiority. I don't understand Uncle Ruckus types. It's like a social form of Stockholm Syndrome. That or they're simply spineless people who take the "I'd rather be a pet than cattle" appeasement approach towards racists.
I'd probably hang out with Bob Whitaker (the founder of "Bob's Mantra") and Tom Shelly (founder of Niggermania) before I'd hang out with Larry Elder and Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson.
@Vox: Somewhere in Ken Burn's Baseball was a story of a black college baseball player in the 20s, who travelled and played with his otherwise complete white team through the country to play ball. Because of segregation they had trouble finding rooms no matter where they went. One night after looking for hours and finally finding a room, the coach came up to the kid's room and catched him crying trying to peel off his skin saying "If I could just get the color out..." repeatedly.
While that is an extreme example, I think it's pretty much what goes on in the heads of the Uncle Toms of today. They found a certain ideology for some reason, maybe they were fiscally libertarian all along, social conservatives or simply evangelical Christian and then were over years and years and years indoctrinated with all these falsehoods white conservatives tell themselves. That black people would be better off without a social system, that racism doesn't exist, that the real racists were the ones looking for balance not meritocracy or any of the other 101 bedtime lies these people tell themselves. Basically they blame the victim, like blaming the girl that got raped for dressing to skinny, they think that if black people wouldn't commit more crimes than white people wouldn't have to be afraid - and Zimmerman wouldn't have followed Martin. Sometimes intellectual confort beats intellectual honesty.
@UHM - That's a powerful story. I'd never heard of that till now. I gotta look that up!
Anyways, I think that's a GREAT analysis of these people. It's refreshing to hear a white German guy come up with a better answer than I did. :)
You're right. I think somewhere along the line these people probably went from being merely conservative-leaning black people (which honestly isn't that rare, unlike what Republicans would have you believe, it's just that most black conservatives still vote Democrat or Independent) to buying into the lies and bullshit that white conservative racism deniers and white supremacists tell themselves. I notice a lot of them tend to be either middle-aged or elderly black people who listen to a lot of stories of black youth being convicted of crimes. Maybe they get fed up and decide to "wash their hands" of black people, so-to-speak, and conclude that racism deniers must have a point that black people are just generally of ill character. That's the feeling I seem to get from listening to Uncle Tom-type black people on YouTube who upload videos ranting about the black community.
A lot of the younger Tom types, like PajamasTV Media's Alfonzo Rachel of "Zo Nation", or the black lady who worked for Zimmerman's defense and vehemently denied he had any racial biases, seem to be black people who realize there's a niche market among right-wing Americans for black people willing to parrot their views and go against the grain of popular left-leaning black activists like Michael Eric Dyson and Tavis Smiley. If you look at their back-stories it's often obvious the conservative "Uncle Tom" types may not even believe half the shit they spout. They're just seeking pats on the head from white bigots and hoping they'll give them a market to cash in on. Though some of them may genuinely have an inferiority complex and are in it for the head pats and being told they're "one of the good ones" as much as the money.
@UHM - In that sense they're more like wealthy black Republicans like 50 Cent, Charles Barkley and Bob Johnson - cynical, self-serving capitalists who put personal profits above helping raise social consciousness.
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There's a lot that Uncle Toms have in common with anti-Semitic Jews and I think that fear, on the one hand, and the need to be accepted, on the other, have a great deal to play. If you vocally support the white nationalists and give them a fig leaf to protect themselves from accusations of racism, maybe you'll be safe from them. If, as in the case of Erik Rush, you call for revolution to overthrow the Muslim Imposter every week, you'll earn a decent living and they'll leave you alone when the Teahadis come to power. If, as in the case of the Israeli anti-Semite Gilad Atzmon, you call for Israel's destruction and say that you can understand why someone would want to blow up a synagogue, maybe they won't put you up against the wall when the revolution comes. And there are other kinds of fear; a Jewish acquaintance of mine, responding to the fearmongering pushed by Geller, Spencer and their kind, got involved with a far-right organization in France out of the terror he had about Muslims. For him that terror canceled out the fact that the organization he made "friends" with were well to the right of the FN and, had they not been focusing their bigotry on Muslims, would probably have beaten him to a pulp without a second thought.
"Also, just because the people who hate you are black, does not mean that everyone who is black hates you"
Only he never said that! Can you leftists ever pay attention to what they actually say rather than what you THINK they say?
Or do you just desperately want to catch him on a racist comment to feed into your fantasy that all conservatives are closet racists or something?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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