African Christian University Dean: 'Black people in America are the FREEST and MOST PROSPEROUS black people in the world' - "Dr. Voddie Baucham, Dean of Theology at African Christian University and former pastor from California, recently made waves when his sermon titled "Ethnic Gnosticism" resurfaced online. He joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Thursday to share why he believes today's social justice, anti-racism movements are "poisonous" ideology steeped in Marxist critical theory, which aim to "redistribute" justice to certain societal groups with no consideration for the individual. Dr. Baucham argued that left's narrative that black Americans are the most oppressed black people in the world is far from true... "I'm also an American who, as an expat in a foreign country, I've been to dozens of countries in the world. And there are two things I know: One, black people in America are the freest and most prosperous black people in the world. Period. Bar none," he asserted. "And the second thing is this: people outside of America just think that we are the most oppressed people in the world. People actually think that things like George Floyd are happening every day. That they're not an anomaly. But that they're commonplace ... it sickens me. It saddens me ... the reputation that black people have, that somehow we are weak and impotent, and that we can't do or be anything unless white people do it for us. Which, by the way, is kind of racist.""
Can I Please Get My Braids Done Without Hearing Offensive, Conservative Views? - "I once remember wishing I could sink into the water while getting my hair washed because a heated debate started about trans teens competing in sports. A news story came on a midday news broadcast about the national ban on trans athletes in girls’ sports. The news segment told the story of two Black trans girls and most people in the salon agreed with the stance that they had no place competing. Not only do I vehemently disagree with these opinions, they also go against my identity as a Black queer person... I understand that sometimes these views are subconsciously a defense mechanism against white supremacy (especially since Black people providing racialized services are often undermined and not given the proper respect they deserve), but these realities don’t excuse creating insular environments that are only safe for certain customers and not for others, who are usually experiencing equally or more devastating oppression outside of those doors... Going in to get my hair braided gives me a sense of security and has become a constant in my life. Most of the salons I frequent are safe and encouraging places to explore the wonders of my hair. It’s a shame that all salons can’t be this way. I want to be able to go into these cultural institutions without having to hold my breath."
Ironic. These are the same people who hate on others all the time. Of course no one gets a right to have views except them
Meme - "White people don't season they neighborhoods *graffiti on graffiti and shuttered shops*"
End Wokeness on X - "TikTok historian explains how Beethoven and Lincoln were really blacks who got “whitified” by the media"
iamyesyouareno on X - "Black teens laughing and dancing in court after committing serious crimes such as stealing cars. There’s no fixing this."
Sizwe SikaMusi on X - "Black people on average spend 30% more on luxury goods and brands than White people in the same income group. Why? Because wearing designer and luxury brands is necessary for affluent Blacks to gain respect and status in the White world🧵"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Literally every silly or pathological behavior is "because racism." As a note, btw: the core point here doesn't make sense. Rocking designer, beyond the level of nice luggage or an ancient Vineyard Vines hoodie, is a neutral or parvenu signal TO rich people. The actual data point to take from this, btw, is that Black people waste 30% more money even than WHITE Americans. That's...saying something, and is clearly one of several hard objective reasons for wealth gaps."
The Dude Abides on X - "In the conversations I have been in with groups of black people it seems more like an in group status thing, having nothing to do with impressing whites. One gentleman was complaining to other black women that black men have to have so much swag just to get their attention."
Brandon on X - "It’s so crazy to put forward the argument that all black behavior is controlled by whites when people like Sowell have documented similar behaviors among non blacks lol. Seeing everything through a prism is poisonous."
i/o on X - "As a kid my family lived in the ghetto twice. I saw two main things: (1) Hair-trigger violence, and (2) the juxtaposition of the relative squalor of living conditions with relatively lavish spending on apparel and cars (which regularly got repo'd). But let's blame whites."
i/o on X - "As a white guy, nothing impresses me more than seeing a black guy wearing top-end $200 sneakers. I immediately think to myself, "Damn, that black guy sure has got it all together.""
MrDawg on X - "Most white ppl I know are not impressed by lavish spending on consumer goods. Wearing a $30K watch or a carrying a $5K handbag just shows you've got more money (or credit) than sense. Anecdotal perhaps, but it's "my truth.""
MystressMinx on X- "As a teen (in the 90s), most of my friends lived in rough neighborhoods. I currently live in Gov housing, although in a small town, and you're spot on. Hearing people bitch about how they're going to cover rent when they just spent $200 on 3 outfits for their one kid gets tiring"
A lot of poor people have poor spending habits
Keywords: luxury products
Meme - "BLACK PRIVILEGE. The ability to break every law in the country and still remain the victim.."
~~datahazard~~ on X - "- 2.34% of black men who turned 25 years old in 1998 had already offed someone by then.
- 1.35% who would have turned 25 years old in 1998... didn't turn 25 years old."
Damn racism!
Claudine Gay Is Why I Never Checked the 'Black' Box | Opinion - "I knew that if I checked the black box, administrators and corporate executives would feel like they owned me. They had opened the doors to their esteemed institutions and, in return, I would be expected to show fealty to their racial politics and ideologies. Checking the "black" box on college applications would have forced me to enter what I call the Minority State of Mind, divorcing myself from my larger American identity to embrace a far narrower identity based on the politics of race. In my case, that meant embracing a racialized and victimized mindset in which everything is defined by slavery, segregation, disparities, and racism. People have mocked me, saying that I give far too much importance to the black box, but they have no idea what awaits a black student who puts that checkmark next to "black." If I had indicated "black" on my college applications, it would have opened the door to black scholarships, black-only orientations, black fraternities, black housing, black-oriented majors, black student associations, black this and that. How could I have gone through these experiences without becoming beholden to the politics of blackness? Even at that young age, I knew that to check that black box was to move off the merit track and onto the race track, where people like Claudine Gay excel. She is perhaps the most successful black to walk this path, but she is not a free individual. Throughout her career, Gay has placed emphasis on her skin color and the politics of the black identity, which we are now learning involved a brew of incompetence, racial essentialism, and plagiarism, all emerging now. As bad as this all is, the worse thing that the Claudine Gays of America did was lead so many people of their race down this dead-end path of racial essentialism. Today, the focus has been on how Gay hurt Asians and Jews, but it can never be forgotten that people like her hurt blacks far more and for such a sustained period of time, affecting multiple generations. My refusal to check the race box meant that no one could hold a claim over me. I'm a free individual, and the only thing I owe is gratitude to the many people who helped me as I pursued the path of merit. But if one really wants to know why I never checked the "black" box, the true answer lies in my black grandfather's life. Born to formerly enslaved parents on a dirt floor in Camp Nelson, Kentucky, his parents died when he was just a teen. On his own, he traveled to Detroit and then to Chicago, where he worked odd jobs to fuel his playboy lifestyle. Then one day, he realized his current life would lead to no good. He straightened up and became a founding member of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) where he met my grandmother. He got a job as a truck driver, became a family man, and educated himself by reading every book he could find. In doing so, he lifted his family from poverty to a solid lower-middle class life despite living under segregation. Why then would I betray this admirable progress for the empty promise of skin color?"
Your thoughts Walmarts and other retailers leaving primarily black residential areas. : askblackpeople - "Without Walmart's volume-discount prices and liberal product return-policies, those of us who live pay-check to pay-check would not make it to the next pay-check. Thank you Walmart for being there. We are missing an important point here that needs to be said. Stealing is not morally or socially acceptable, if it is allowed, society can not advance in a civilized manner. But among a considerable percentage of blacks, stealing is ok, just as is other socially unacceptable behavior - such as resisting arrest and the like. So much so, now we have two standards for judging social misbehavior, black-standard and everyone-else standard. Historically, when I worked in the retail-world, I personally remember witnessing black children stealing under a number of different social circumstances, while the mother was close by and the mother did nothing to reprimand the children. So you have to assume, the mother has taught the children that stealing is ok. Blacks of all ages openly loot stores (big and small business) and/or routinely shoplift stores in their neighborhoods, all to which results in stores closing/leaving black neighborhoods. When the stores close in black-neighborhoods, the thieves move to non-black neighborhoods. The obvious result, stores close and blacks have propagated their own disparity, even after so much effort to help them by encouraging Corporate America to invest in black neighborhoods. Corporate America is tired of being used to advance what appears to be a hopeless black-America and listening to black-excuse for failing to thrive. Unfortunately, black misbehavior is highly contagious and has rapidly spread to non-blacks, who believe if blacks can get away with it, so can we."
What the lack of premium grocery stores says about disinvestment in Black neighborhoods - "One part of the larger structure of business and commercial real estate devaluation in Black-majority communities is “food apartheid,” or disparities in access to food that have been produced by structural racism in residential and investment patterns, such as supermarket redlining... Premium grocery stores are absent from wealthy Black-majority communities... there is a second component to the different food retail ecosystems in Black and non-Black (especially white) neighborhoods: the prevalence of less-desirable food options. Studies have shown that the prevalence of fast-food restaurants is positively correlated with the percentage of Black residents in urban neighborhoods in the U.S. Similar trends have been found for liquor stores. Chain dollar stores are one example of food retailers that have targeted Black-majority urban neighborhoods for store locations, often saturating these communities with outlets and making it more difficult for local businesses and other grocery chains to become established. While dollar stores can fill a need in low-income neighborhoods, they are often regarded as predatory businesses that harm communities more than they benefit them, due to very low wages, displacing other grocery options while failing to sell fresh food, store design that increases the rate of armed robberies, and OSHA and FDA violations that put customers and employees at risk."
Food deserts are because poor people don't want healthy food, but sure, blame racism. Greedy companies are more evil than they are greedy, which is why they don't want to open in black neighbourhoods
Eli Steele on X - "I agree with much of this post but the last paragraph bothered me: “Let's make 2024 the year when we break the back of wokeness so we can focus our efforts and thoughts on improving society instead of just fighting off people who are intent on destroying it.” One thing that people often don’t understand is that the first thing that post 60s liberalism — which would eventually lead to DEI — did was destroy a significant part of the black community. In creating policies of dependency combined with failing schools, etc., it severed many blacks from the American Dream. Today, we have black underclasses in every major city. We have city leaders doing everything to keep blacks locked in this underclass by lowering education standards and blaming the bogeyman of white supremacy for every ill. These blacks were the very first victims of the Left’s socialistic long March through the institutions. I’m being very general here but my point is that decades before October 7 or Claudine Gay, not too many people saw that what was fermenting within the black underclass would eventually lead to the rot at Harvard and the destabilization of many American institutions. Those that saw what was happening were black conservatives. There were people like Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele who spoke out. Today, many blacks like Pastor @CoreyBBrooks on the South Side and @IanVRowe in the Bronx have started monumental efforts to reverse the decline in their neighborhoods. They didn’t wait for the “white man” or the government. It’s all grassroots. That is why the claim of starting reform in 2024 bothered me — it ignores the great efforts already underway. It is to our shame that too many thought that the rot we saw in the black underclasses would never reach us. (The photo shows the construction of Pastor Brooks’ new community center on O-Block, one of the most violent blocks. It was Michelle Obama’s first home.)"
Eli Steele on X - ".@chrisrock once joked, "If a friend calls you on the telephone and says they're lost on Martin Luther King Boulevard and they want to know what they should do, the best response is 'Run!'" Below is King Drive that runs through the heart of the South Side of Chicago. This section, known as O-Block, is one of the most violent in the city. But there is a miracle of sorts taking place on this block: the construction of Pastor @CoreyBBrooks ' massive community center, Project H.O.O.D. This center is designed to end intergenerational poverty, intergenerational violence, and intergenerational dependency on the government. It took the pastor a decade to raise over $30M to build this community center -- with little to no help from the government. Americans from all over reached out and it was the generosity of their hearts that made the pastor believe all the more in King's Dream for a better America. King understood the goodness of America and her people. He understood the need for blacks to take responsibility for their lives. I think he would be proud of all of this community for what they are accomplishing today: the chance for the children coming up now to have the best life possible. After all, just look at the picture below. To the left of King Drive, you see the infamous Parkway Gardens projects. You see a community driven to the ground. But you also see that the pastor is building something new here, something with hope. King's life was no joke and it is time for us to rise to his level of seriousness and transform America for the better. Happy King Day! #MLK #MLKDay2024 #MLKDay"
Shaniqua Posting Delusions on X - "Despite overwhelming evidence that O.J. murdered his white ex-wife, black people celebrated the verdict like their team just won the superbowl"
Charles Barkley decries 'you're not black enough' 'brainwashing' - ""For some reason, we are brainwashed to think that if you're not a thug, or an idiot, you're not black enough," the ever-outspoken NBA analyst told SportsRadio 94 WIP's Anthony Gargano and Rob Ellis... Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was getting just such criticism from teammates. "Why would you hate Russell Wilson?" Barkley said. "... Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we are never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people." "When you are black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people," Barkley said. "...Young black kids, when they do well in school, the loser kids tell them, 'Oh, you're acting white.' The kids who speak intelligently, they tell them, 'Oh, you're acting white.'" "We're the only ethnic group that says, hey, if you're going to jail, it gives you street cred," Barkley said. "That's just typical BS that goes on when you're black, man."... Barkley went on to cite former Sixers guard Allen Iverson as another example of a player hurt by "bad people around him." "You know, one of the reasons a lot of black players go broke is when you're successful, your friends say, 'Oh, you ain't cool, you ain't down with us anymore,' and you end up giving up all your money to these damn losers, and you end up broke again," Barkley said."
Charles Barkley Slams ‘Unintelligent,’ ‘Brainwashed’ Black People for Holding Successful Ones Back (Audio) - "“For some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough,” Barkley said. “If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.”... “There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don't have success,” he continued. “It's best to knock a successful black person down because they're intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school and they're successful … It's just typical B.S. that goes on when you're a black, man.”"
Lo El Cunado on X - "My husband works 3 jobs to support our family. My black friend banged 3 black dudes who each abandoned her and the kids. No, I don't think the wealth accumulation will be the same.
To break it down further: My FIL worked multiple jobs every day of his adult life to provide for his family raised my husband who works 3 jobs to support our family. My black friend (abandoned by her black father) went on to bang 3 black dudes who each abandoned her & the kids"
Meme - Wilfred Reilly: "Literally dozens of explanatory variables. Three obvious ones: (1) following the downstream effects of 1960s welfare policy, the average Black family is 1/2 as big. (2) The modal age for a Black man is 31 years below that for a white guy. (3) There are fewer Black billionaires - history does play a role here - and the top 1% of the distro. explains half this gap."
Ed Krassenstein @Edkrassen: "How do you explain this, if it has nothing to do with systematic racism?
AMERICA'S RACIAL WEALTH GAP
$17,150 NET WORTH OF A BLACK FAMILY
$171,000 NET WORTH OF A WHITE FAMILY"
John Lewis Helped Win the Civil Rights War; Why Are We Still Fighting It? - "What today's social justice warriors complain about has little to do with "equal rights" and more to do with unequal results. In 1991, Orlando Patterson, a Black Harvard sociology professor, wrote: "The sociological truths are that America, while still flawed in its race relations ... is now the least racist white-majority society in the world; has a better record of legal protection of minorities than any other society, white or Black; offers more opportunities to a greater number of Black persons than any other society, including all those of Africa." There is a crisis within the Black community, and it's the unconscionably high dropout rate at many of our urban high schools. Baltimore, in 2017, had 13 public high schools where 0% of kids could do math at grade level, and another half-dozen where only 1% could do so. A white friend, who, in the 1990s, taught at the University of Chicago, recently told me a sad but all too common story. In a Borders bookstore, my professor friend saw a Black boy, approximately 10 years old, sitting and reading a book. My friend does not recall the book but said it was a serious book, not a children's book or a picture book. But another Black kid, about the same age, walked up to him and said: "Why are you reading that? You're trying to be white." The reader promptly closed the book, put it down and began walking away. My friend, however, rushed over to them and said: "Wait. Don't stop reading. Reading is important to be successful in life. You should read as much and as often as you can, if you want to be successful." The Black kid who was critical about reading turned to his friend and, "See, I told you it would make you white." The kid who had been reading nodded in agreement with his friend and continued walking away. Where is Black Lives Matter when you need them? One cannot pin this on racism. This is Black self-sabotage."
Success is whiteness and reading is white supremacy, after all
Opinion | Teaching Black Students That They Can’t Handle Discomfort Is a Form of Abuse - The New York Times - "Many leaders at elite universities seem to think that as stewards of modern antiracism, their job is to denounce and to penalize, to the maximum extent possible, anything said or done that makes Black students uncomfortable. In the congressional hearing, the presidents made clear that Jewish students should be protected when hate speech is “directed and severe, pervasive” (in the words of Ms. Magill) or when the speech “becomes conduct” (Claudine Gay of Harvard). But the tacit idea is that when it comes to issues related to race — and, specifically, Black students — then free speech considerations become an abstraction. Where Black students are concerned, we are to forget whether the offense is directed, as even the indirect is treated as evil; we are to forget the difference between speech and conduct, as mere utterance is grounds for aggrieved condemnation. It seems to me that, in debates over free speech, Jews are seen in some quarters as white and therefore need no protection from outright hostility. But racism is America’s original sin, and thus we are to treat all and any intimation of it on university campuses as a kind of kryptonite, even if that means treating Black students as pathological cases rather than human beings with basic resilience who understand proportion and degree. This is certainly a double standard imposed on Jewish students... the legal scholar Ilya Shapiro, before he was to start an appointment at Georgetown’s law school, wrote a tweet implying that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was an affirmative-action pick for the Supreme Court: “Because Biden said he’d only consider black women for SCOTUS, his nominee will always have an asterisk attached.” Shapiro also said that the Indian American judge he thought best qualified “doesn’t fit into latest intersectionality hierarchy so we’ll get a lesser black woman.” For two tweets, his appointment was suspended pending an investigation. Two tweets, that is, and expressing his assessment of racial preferences in the selection of a Supreme Court justice. Shapiro simply — and rather gracelessly — expressed an opinion. His appointment was reinstated, but only because the tweets were written before he was on the job, with it specified that had he written such tweets while employed, it would likely have been classified as creating a hostile environment. (Shapiro ultimately resigned before assuming the position.) The geophysicist Dorian Abbot was disinvited from giving a talk on climate at M.I.T. when it was discovered that he had spoken against identity-based preferences in the past. The head of the department that had invited Abbot announced that “words matter and have consequences.” But the question is whether the words in this case were so injurious as to constitute abusive action — hardly an open-and-shut case — and more to the point, those were words Abbot was presumably not going to speak in his presentation. This was a medieval-style banning of a heretic. Sometimes Black students must be protected not only from words, but words that sound like other words. In 2020, Greg Patton was suspended from teaching a class in communications at the University of Southern California. The reason was that one of his lectures included noting that in Mandarin, a hesitation term is “nèi ge,” which means “that …” and has nothing to do, of course, with the N-word. Several Black students said they felt injured by experiencing this word in the class. The offense can even be 100 years in the past. In 2021 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, some Black students were upset when walking past a boulder on campus that was referred to as a “niggerhead” by a newspaper reporter in 1925, when that term was common for large, dark rocks. The school had the boulder removed. In cases like those last two, it seems that Black students are being taught a performed kind of delicacy. If you can’t bear walking past a rock someone called a dirty name 100 years ago, how are you going to deal with life? It surely feels as if being on the right side of social justice these days means shielding Black students even from all-but-nonexistent harms while essentially telling Jewish students, who are being actually assailed verbally, to just grow up. But to train young people, or any people, to think of themselves as weak is a form of abuse... anyone who has made the mistake of thinking that a healthy Jewish soul must endure calls for the extermination of Israel might at least consider that a healthy Black soul can endure a sour tweet, a talk by someone who has opposed racial preferences, and even the Mandarin expression “nèi ge.”"
These are the people who go on about "white fragility"
Steve McGuire on X - "Roland Fryer has no time for DEI foolishness: “You can’t put me on a task force where we’re going to spend a semester talking about the new name for black people.” “You go to my neighborhood and call someone BIPOC, they’ll punch you in the face.”"
Wesley Yang on X - "Easy to see why the black bourgeois elite at Harvard didn't take a liking to Fryer, who grew up fatherless and became one of Harvard's most productive scholars -- he is from the class of the truly disadvantaged they are constantly invoking for rhetorical leverage; his scholarly record vastly outshines any and all of theirs; he can't hide his contempt for their BS"
Meme - "Reels
Black content creator: "POV: Everyone has stolen from a bakery before"
spaghetti.borgar: "I haven't, I'm white.""
Meme - "I can't read it"
"There are few who can. The language is black speech, which I will not utter here"
"WE WUZ KANGZ"
Wage Discrimination in the National Basketball Association: Is There Discrimination Based on Race - "For the 1996-1997 season, veteran black players earned an average of $720,000 (43%) more in wages than their white counterparts. Veteran black players earned a mean salary of $2.41 million, compared with $1.69 million for white players."
Damn structural racism!
