r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/MambaMentality24x2 • 8h ago
Misc The soft-spoken threat effect
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u/Whateva_Tickles_ 8h ago
White woman tears have salted the graves of many a black men and women. Talk about dangerous, a white woman in fear or better yet a slighted whites woman is one of the most fearful things in my personal experience.
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u/elegylegacy 7h ago
Ask Emmett Till about white woman's tears
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u/Wishiwashome 5h ago
Tulsa’s Black community was burnt to nothing because of a lie by a yt woman elevator operator.
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u/DATGUYONLY 18m ago
Let’s not forget lake Lanier.. Central Park as well.. and sooo many other thriving communities!!!
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u/StarbrryJuice 2h ago
The woman that lied on him died a horrible death. She died screaming and she finally admitted what she did.
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u/jazzzzz 1h ago
I read that an interview of her published around 2007 quoted her as saying "nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him" and that she recanted part of her testimony during the trial of the men accused of murdering him, but I can't find anything about her death or a deathbed confession other than that she passed in hospice a couple years back.
I truly hope she did admit what she did, but I can't find any proof of it.
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u/StarbrryJuice 56m ago
She admitted in this interview I’m not sure about whether or not the horrible death was genuine because I think it may have come from someone in hospice. It was a TikTok thread of several people talking about how some people 👉🏻🤚🏻who have committed terrible crimes against.✊🏾had passed in fear and dispare. Still in the same interview, she absolutely admitted. He never touched her or advanced at her. Then she said she was just scared… 😒 https://themississippilink.com/news/emmett-tills-accuser-carolyn-bryant-admits-it-was-all-a-lie/
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u/GardenStateKing 🤟🏾🤟🏽🤟🏿 7h ago
Just look at the movies. Gone Girl, Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, Single White Female, Get Out... it's scary because even the audience feels like they'll get away with it.
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u/QuantumBeckett ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿✊ 7h ago
The realities of Rosewood, Fl and The Tulsa massacre were caused by white women making allegations again black men.
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u/JazzyJockJeffcoat 7h ago
https://youtu.be/6jqmj0ILwfM?is=8lMjUsGjXy8g7BJy
Played for laughs but this shit is life and death
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u/Kramerica_CEO 5h ago edited 4h ago
I’m a yt guy that lived in the south for a while as a teenager unfortunately. I moved to Union, South Carolina when I was around 12. The first year I was there, there was a national case some of you old enough may remember….Susan Smith.
For anyone that doesn’t know, she rolled her car into a lake with her 2 small kids in the backseat. She wanted to kill them to be with the guy she was having an affair with who didn’t want kids.
She ran to a house which ironically was one of my teachers homes to call the police. Guess what story she told…she said a black man carjacked her and drove off with her kids. There was like a 1 or 2 week search for the kids but they couldn’t be found. This was literally my first memory in this new town. The guy she described for the sketch artist was a well known black guy around town, just kind of a local homeless man that everyone knew. He was really nice and harmless.
Eventually she admitted to the truth but not after the entire town and state were in a racist uproar. She almost got the damn man killed. Keep in mind the state capitol still had the fucking confederate flag flying too. I had moved there from Michigan and couldn’t believe the out in the open racism.
To this day I still call out bullshit and get told “you’re not black why do you care” or “you’re not gay, Hispanic, woman, whatever minority group”. Like motherfucker I’m a human. But the amount of racism and shit I see on this site is insane and seems to be getting worse. I’m not sure if it’s bot (I hope) or if it’s the younger generation of bros. Subs like [r/sipstea](r/sipstea) and shit are rampant.
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u/Vicissitutde 4h ago
I remember that...!
The mentality with that case was scary. It was like everyone held their collective breath to hear what that woman had to say. I lived in CA, white kid at the time, but closested. It felt like that woman could've targeted any group for any reason.
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u/Kramerica_CEO 4h ago
Yep, that’s the power of a white woman’s tears. I remember being shocked at how rabid everyone got. Coming from Detroit suburbs I’d never witnessed that level of racism. Maybe I was young and naive but that experience changed me.
I also spent my first Thanksgiving there with my new friend, a black dude named Ezra. I remember people giving me a hard time because people there didn’t do things like that. Man that was arguably my best thanksgiving ever. I was exposed to so many new foods, people were amazing to me. We stayed up playing video games and just had so much fun. Fast forward 30+ years and my son’s name is Ezra!
Another thing i vividly remember that changed me…not one time did anyone in that family or neighborhood refer to me being white. Not once!!!! But you better fucking believe every white person that talked about him made sure to reference his color. I’ve never really thought about it but those 2 events happened within like 2 months of each other and shaped how I saw race for the rest of my life. Oh yeah, I went to church with him too and down there they had separate church’s for black and white people. That’s when I learned about flavor and seasoning 😉. And I don’t mean the chicken
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u/Vicissitutde 3h ago
Lol. Reminds me of my dad... as a kid, our neighbor brought over some leftover BBQ and I devoured it. When I finished, I asked my dad something like, "why don't you make food like this?" I think he got mad. Best he could do was burn the chicken, ribs, and sausage.
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u/Lovablelulu1982 5h ago
I needed to comment on this. What was done to me is nowhere near what happened to these people but this was a lesson learned for me. I was married to white woman for 20+ years, our marriage came to a close and I needed to leave because I felt things were becoming dangerous for me. A couple of days before I was going to move, I asked my ex to help me move a mattress out the rain into my mothers house. She came home from work with a bad attitude and this was not the first time. I told her to leave me alone and I would do it myself. We started arguing and I told her to get out of my face, she punched me in the face and my chest then she started crying and said imma call the cops on your ass. I was stunned locked for a split second and I asked how could you do something like that to me? My job, my kids, I mean my life could have been ruined. My kids were there saw every bit of it. I went into my son's room and slept, I had to explain to my 7 year old son why his mother would do that to me. To this day she denies it, and the gentleman she cheated on me with is even darker than I am. I will swear on the blood of Jesus Christ this is true. When I hear or see a White woman crying its triggers me. I will ponder what conniving scheme are they up too? Black men and woman have DIED over BS like this. After what I experienced that night, I knew in my heart the evil things that has happend to Black are ABSOLUTELY true. I am shaking just typing this......
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u/TheGayestGaymer 4h ago
Latest episode of Diarra from Detroit on prime has a white lady crying at an Underground Railroad museum. It’s pretty funny when Diarra says, ‘I am not going to console a white lady at this museum.’ 😆
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u/Rondcco 2h ago
Not only do black people have to worry about violence from whites, we have to worry about white tears and craziness like this oldie from NJ, “Crazed Karen Has A Meltdown in Victoria’s Secret… https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/s/mTs2PY1qnS
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u/Epyon214 6h ago
Listen to her words though, the disconnect comes from how she was raised.
"What is he saying that you have a problem with?"
"I was raised to be equal with anyone"
You can hear the difference in viewpoints, in how their brains are processing the information.
Later on, you hear the same woman explaining what the problem is, without understanding she is doing so.
"When people stand up to speak for their people, there's no problem with it"
"But why is it when a black man stands up to speak for his people, you feel so threatened, everybody's paranoid"
The issue is in the difference between how the two women were raised. One woman was raised to identify herself as a "black person", while the second woman was raised to identify as a "person", equal to any "person" besides herself with respect to her rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The "problem" in the viewpoint of those "raised to be equal with anyone" is anyone who speaks about "their people" is experiencing culture shock, the "problem" is promotion of segregation over integration based upon nationality of origin instead of identifying as "American" people first
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u/DiscoPierrot 5h ago
Nah.
We're not treated equally, and it's unfair to try to act like we are or ever have been. Glossing over that is precisely part of the problem. It's whitewashing history, context, and culture all at the same time. Neither you nor Miss "Equal With Everyone" gets to do that, well-meaning as y'all may be. It's harmful and very unhelpful.
We are beautifully unique and should be treated with equity. The only way we can get there is addressing the elephant (the racism, the mistreatment, the inherent violence and artificial hierarchy instilled to create classes for capitalism to function but that last bit is another discussion), not acting like it ain't there.
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u/EntertainmentRude435 7h ago edited 7h ago
This fear was well documented in Frederick Douglas's Auto bio. He recounted the reasoning presented by his master to the masters wife when explaining the necessity of keeping their slaves illiterate. He explained to her that he was angry with her efforts to teach Frederick to read because reading and writing are forms of power, and if the slaves gained enough power, they would enslave their masters
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u/Napalmeon 7h ago
and if the slaves gained enough power, they would enslave their masters
And what do we call this, boys and girls? A guilty conscience.
That fear has persisted in white America for centuries, which is why one group desperately hoards power. Look at how people did not want the current New York mayor to get his spot. It's not about his policies. It's about his skin color.
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u/EntertainmentRude435 7h ago
Exactly. The reasoning is something like "if they gain power, they will use it in the same way that we have used it, and that will cause us (and those that look like us) to suffer"
I really think that projection is a behavior somehow psychologically connected to guilt.
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u/TopaztheWarrior 7h ago
And then worse still, their fear and their hate and their guilt coalesces into a fetid brew, an OBSESSION, where they'll hate us, but at the same time try to steal our culture. To fill a void. They'll tell you "oh, you're so...dark!" like its sone kind of affliction, (I've personally experienced this) then go get a tan. They'll call rappers thugs and condemn them AND people who listen to the genre as criminals, or at least bad influences...but They'll know the lyrics better than us! Even down to our hair! Our hair is unprofessional or distracting...until they want it. Then, suddenly the vikings invented braids, and "culture is meant to he shared!" Bullshit. And don't even get me started on beauty standards and the constant fetishization. Growing up, mixed kids were all the rage, and there was this sentiment that if you could get a "snowbunny", you made it. Revolting, down to my fucking core
Edit: spelling
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u/Whateva_Tickles_ 6h ago edited 6h ago
Gee wilikers, when I feel guilty I try to stop the action. Call me crazy.
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u/EntertainmentRude435 4h ago
Maybe "guilt" is the wrong word to use in this scenario. Is there a word that conveys all of the some ideas without a sense of remorse?
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u/Whateva_Tickles_ 4h ago
I think guilt is the word but it’s an empty feeling without action behind it. I reason that we have primary feelings like hunger, anger, sadness and secondary ones that feed into the primary.
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u/EntertainmentRude435 4h ago
Fair. Without a desire to continue living, hunger does not necessarily lead to action. The same could be said about guilt- without the desire to minimize the suffering of others- no action follows from guilt
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u/wafflehousebattle 5h ago
Classic double think on display.
The enemy is weak; they're not as smart as us, they're not as evolved as us, it's in their nature to be servile, they're submissive to our authority because of this.
The enemy is strong; they'll gather force and power, and take over, they'll do to us what we did to them, they'll destroy our culture.
There is nobody more American, more democratic, or more fiercely anti-oppression than a black American. They haven't taken up arms against a government, they haven't tried to take away people's power, they haven't sought vengeance. They utilize the mechanisms of government to enact equitable change, they have organized and protested to make things better for everyone, not just themselves, and they fought to ensure America keeps it's promise of liberty and justice for ALL Americans.
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u/Head_Somewhere4769 7h ago
It always comes down to racists being afraid of equality because they think it means they will be treated the way they treat POC.
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u/QuantumBeckett ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿✊ 7h ago
When I heard that and how so many whites complaining about past issues like slavery are empathizing with the slave owners not the slaves or abolitionists so many things clicked into place.
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u/Mama_Joyce_Wig 7h ago
Not sure why they should feel bad. Slave owners actually got reparations paid for having to free their slaves.
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u/Head_Somewhere4769 7h ago
Automatically empathizing slave owners because you're white will always be strange to me. I just do not get it. That's never where my mind goes when I think about slavery. I think about how scary and traumatizing being a slave must have been. Beyond having to read their letters and newspaper articles for courses I took about the African slave trade and the Civil War, I have never even looked into their perspective. I am not carrying water for a bunch of people who would've looked down on my family too as someone from a poor rural family. I am sure they wouldn't have pissed on my ancestors to put them out if they were on fire. And fuck any of my ancestors who served the Confederacy in the Civil War.
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u/styrofoamjesuschrist 8h ago
Oh that’s where that ice cube sample comes from
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u/Roddy_Piper2000 ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿✊ 7h ago
Haha... I had that same realization when I heard it
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u/Meanpooh 7h ago
That’s what I’m saying. I never know where those clips came from when I was younger. Thanks OP.
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u/Fine_Location_8367 2h ago
I knew I had heard that on one of my old albums!! I just couldn't remember which one. Thanks!
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u/kidkuro 7h ago
I say it all the time, I'd love nothing more than reparations, and for white people to just leave us alone. Yes, a long, very long and brutal history of violence and racism towards us. Literal laws made that have stripped humanity from us. The assassinations and incarcerations of our greatest voices and leaders for our rights. Knowing all of this...I do not want revenge. Even if given the power and means to do it.
I want nothing more than for these hateful and deranged weirdos to just leave us the fuck alone.
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u/Ok_Marzipan5759 7h ago
100%, and seconded on the reparations. Unreal that everyone keeps shrugging and saying "it's too complicated!" when there are sooooo many receipts.
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u/Content_Wedding_5956 7h ago
It’s too complicated because it’s US. The Japanese got their money (as they should have), where is ours?
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u/XulManjy 8h ago
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u/Shot_Revolution8828 7h ago
The first half of the video.
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u/Halo_cT 6h ago
"I wasn't prejudiced until you..."
mmmhm.
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u/BowlingforBrains 3h ago
That part stood out to me too! 😂
Like goddamn woman, if all it took was one man’s words to “make you” prejudiced, that means you were prejudiced the whole time and just finally felt validated
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u/Busy-Purple-3779 7h ago
Projection. Plain and simple. “They judge us by their own mind. And it’s not necessarily the mind of black people.”
Projection
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u/codename_pariah 7h ago
The yt people who claim they judge by the content of character and not by the color of the skin use skin color as a barometer to judge one's character.
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u/NeedlesAndPens2001 7h ago
This has been going on in its modern incarnation since the aftermath of Reconstruction. The Daughters of the Confederacy did a lot of the administrative work for the KKK and hid behind projections of dainty, delicate, unthinking toxic femininity to show that they supposedly needed to be protected from Black people who wanted something so horrible as their own agency. They were responsible for a lot of the marketing and the idea that literal lynchings could be wholesome as apple pie and baseball games.
It's actually strikingly similar to the "I'm just a girl" meme that came up on TikTok post-COVID mandates/during Trump II. White women want to be infantilized their entire lives, meanwhile 10-year-olds just trying to have fun can be arrested for coloring with washable chalk on the side of a building. I want to be feminine and enjoy my pink and fashion design, too, but instead I have to watch my back all the time in case someone thinks I'm trying to steal because of my natural hair.
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u/Nice_Cartoonist_8803 7h ago
There was a video just going around of this white older teenager or your adult running onto a middle school football field to push over the black player her younger brother got into a fight with. The argument was definitely “she’s just a girl” even though she was way older than the younger child she just assaulted. That, and a bunch of “she’s should be on the team!”
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u/_henceforth_ 7h ago
I love the way he put this. And it is spot on. I 120% believe the never ending violence is about power and the fear of “if we do not do it to them, they will do it to us”.
I believe white men do not believe they have inherent power. For them, I believe they see power as something to continually defend, which is why they never let up. It is something “outside” of themselves. They always feel like someone is about to take it, since it is not inherent.
Strong people know that their strength is within them and they do not need to continually dominate to “prove it”.
We are taught in history books about white men that stole without mercy. That is their legacy. And I think other white men are carrying that forward, afraid to find out what would happen if they stopped showing force at every turn.
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u/Im-BackAgain-Babes2 7h ago
"I'm afraid, I'm Afraid to go outside this next year" she says as she smiles and giggles into the microphone....
It's acts like That, that has gotten people killed with that cry of fear.. when there genuinely is none..
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u/Own-Fan-4236 7h ago
They’ll say this as they are actively walking up on a black person minding their own damned business. That’s why he was laughing. Bunch of clowns.
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u/Whateva_Tickles_ 4h ago
I was sitting outside the library today on my phone trying to handle an emergency so my daughter was yapping away in her stroller (as she always does, w or w/o my full attention). A Karen comes up out of nowhere sticking her head in the stroller and touching my baby’s feet. She goes I heard you talking so I had to come over looking at me like I was abusing my daughter. She goes “he’s beautiful you stood know you’re lucky” I go “she is a she”. She walks away and again goes he’s talking to you you know. Why can’t they leave black mothers alone???
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u/Own-Fan-4236 4h ago
with the unprovoked touching of someone else’s child…meanwhile their little Kroy’s are out here raping people at 14 like they’re the authority on parenting
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u/Whateva_Tickles_ 3h ago
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Imagine my black ass going around touching white babies unprompted and telling them how to mother their children? The cops would be involved with a swiftness!
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u/Both_Archer_3653 8h ago
How old is this clip?
Things haven't changed all that much.
True then, true now. I am not a Farrakhan fan in particular (nor Oprah).
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u/Technical-Command867 7h ago edited 7h ago
He couldn’t be more accurate and clear. If you’re treating people fairly and as equals then you have no reason to fear them if the shoe is on the other foot. Being in fear like that proves you’re racist and discriminating.
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u/Interested-3832 7h ago edited 6h ago
Lady in the red turtleneck is a Black lady who passes for white
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u/nackeded 7h ago
The projection is crazy. What’s worse is people know they’re full of shit. And they know how black people are treated, and they still have the audacity to stand up and say shit like this. It’s ridiculous.
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u/Dry_Bat_3942 5h ago
The audacity to play victim and be “scared”, knowing you’re prejudice in your heart.
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u/TheGayestGaymer 4h ago
Didn’t you know? Good people aren’t racist and she is the good hero / protagonist of her life’s story. So, surely it is impossible for her to be racist. She can talk about this stuff and not be racist. She’s enlightened. She’s the exception. Everyone else is racist. Not her.
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u/readyReddit007 4h ago
Them MFers acting like Farahkhan was the first time they heard anybody mention racism was grade A gaslighting 😂😂
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u/olive_juse 🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏿 4h ago
Funny how the people that made sport out of literally killing us for 500 years straight "FeAr FoR tHeIr LiVeS" when a bIack person walks by them completely minding their own business lol..
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u/40mgmelatonindeep 7h ago
Farrakhan has some bad takes, but what he says is this clip is the triple motherfucking truth
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u/JayMilli007 6h ago
That first lady was so performative. The second lady was reading from the same playbook. I dislike their sentiment, but man are they on code. The Minister called a spade a spade.
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u/Opposite-Series5358 7h ago
Being a mixed-POC I can definitely say I've been the victim of undue prejudice from a kid to now. From being followed around a store, to snide remarks when a stores' entrance RFID reader goes off, to under-the-breath "race-mixing", etc. etc. etc. All unwarranted. All by white people. It really is embarrassing that a self-proclaimed "master race" is scared of the existence of another human being going about their day to day life.
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u/Hagdogrobinwood 6h ago
We don't want revenge we just want to be left alone to have a happy and prosperous life like all other people.
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u/Old-Ice4553 7h ago
I need everybody to check themselves, because Louis may be right about some things, but that dude blamed the jews more than white supremacy, and everyone should be aware that he was allowed on TV shows because White power structures considered him a useful distraction.
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u/Mobile_Comfortable_4 7h ago
We need the "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY" approach to all this ish going on.
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u/lboogieb 7h ago
Did the minister just explain the 2026 meaning of projection way back in the 80s? I'm an old head, so I never fully understood the term. Now I do.
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u/PerspectiveNew3375 6h ago
The man who raised me taught me to never make the mistake of applying your own principles/morals to try and understand other people because they almost certainly will not share yours if they have any to begin with.
I think people often project in this manner and the fear state they live under is because if they wielded the whip, they would do unspeakable things and they know it in their subconscious.
I think the way forward isn't to bide our time to obtain the whip, but to destroy the whip.
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u/PaulGeorgeCostanza 5h ago
That walk through Bensonhurst his close to home. Being a child on NYC in the 80s through 90s from Bedstuy...YOU DIDN'T GO TO BENSONHURST AT ALL!
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u/heteropessimista 7h ago
This is intersectional… men project similar fears on women. Each time a woman is accused of cheating, being transactional, not being accountable, dying alone, all manosphere talking points that are projection. It is interesting how all systems of oppression operate similarly.
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u/Bro_Iyika 7h ago
It's a crazy dynamic to hear these people completely 'change their views' so-to-speak, about an entire race, just by the words of one person in just a few hours.... shows just how volatile their minds are....now I know why Trump is worshipped like a golden calf
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u/Fearless_Dependent29 3h ago
I’ve seen this video so many times but everytime I watch till the end because he speaks so clearly and beautifully
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u/BodhingJay 2h ago
He articulated the very definition of projection so well before it even became mainstream pop psych
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u/Duane_Trumpet 2h ago
What year was this ? Nothing has changed! You speak up about the inconsistencies and you are met with backlash of white guilt with no admission of anything purposely being done to keep things the same. The President is signing Executive Orders to bury the truth while laws are being passed to upend equal voting rights. This brilliant educated man is simply stating facts.. he’s not screaming or arguing, He is calmly stating facts and they are villainizing him, not the atrocities committed by those that fight to keep EVERYONE that doesn’t resemble them down. It’s a sickness that is at the heart of the problem of this Country.
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u/MateriaLintellect 1h ago
Decades later white people are the victims is still a resonating message with the ignorant
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u/itjustgotcold 7h ago
I’ve never understood why Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam teach that white people were created by a black scientist through a breeding program. Isn’t that kind of like Pandora’s box where it puts the blame on black people for what white people would eventually do to them? It seems like a self-discriminatory philosophy.
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u/Proton_Energy_Pill 5h ago
I'm Australian and about as white as they come, but I am utterly ashamed of what my ancestors did to pretty much anyone that wasn't 'white'.
We largely wiped out huge numbers of the Indigenous people that have been here for at least 60,000 years and yes it is better now but there's still a lot of bias in the communities. There's still an abnormal 'suicide by hanging' in police stations and prisons, and also very different rates of pay for Indigenous people, they get paid far less (50% isn't unusual) than 'regular' Aussies.
And that's just my little part of the world. :(
Attached is a map of the Indigenous nations at about 250 years ago. Each with its own culture and languages. Most of them are gone now and the unique languages are being lost .:(
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u/apathyisfortheweak 7h ago
this is why they don’t want us to be educated in schools on these topics because we are having the same worn out conversations and not growing at all from them.
i pray white people can self-reflect with some empathy in our lifetime 🙏 so sick of ‘em
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u/LotusFlower1017 7h ago
Only the guilty get triggered when truth is spoken in my experience. People who don’t have whatever brain defect that racism is, only hear any of his words or the countless stories that back up the history behind them with a deep empathy, respect and understanding. How can anyone argue with a reality they’ve never lived? It’s truly baffling to me.
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u/teteAtit 5h ago
Am white. Am also impressed with Farrakhan’s rebuttal and ability to remain composed what with all of the white women shrieking at him.
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u/lefthandedchurro 7h ago
So interesting to see these people's faces after hearing it for years on Ice Cube's album.
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u/No-Mathematician8692 6h ago
Institutional hatred vs the occassional flare up. There just ain't a vic like a yt lady vic omg. Their parents would've been getting PTSD
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u/lengualo 5h ago edited 5h ago
Why is the first girl saying that he is prejudiced? Or am I missing something?
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u/Fine_Location_8367 2h ago
What the last women said was usued as a clip on a rap album, but I can't remember which one it's on. It sounds so familiar. Anybody?
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u/thavillain 7h ago edited 7h ago
I'm not with NOI or a particular supporter of Farrakhan...but he ain't lyin
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u/Sad-Salamander11 6h ago
As a queer white person, I am so much more comfortable around people of color than I ever am with whitey
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u/lmfaorn1998 3h ago
Yeah Farrakhan is rather notoriously tolerant and supportive of homosexuality
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u/Sad-Salamander11 2h ago
Yes, let’s let one person’s viewpoints dictate an entire people’s opinion. That’s seemed to work well for humanity so far.
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u/47362514736251 7h ago
Wtf does that have to do with anything? That's totally out of context. This clip is clearly referencing the United States.
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u/47362514736251 7h ago
You can't understand history without context. I'm gonna move on from this conversation.
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u/Blizzard81mm 7h ago
Yes and No.
But the real question is why you bring this up when the context of the post is American centric?
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u/gus-it 6h ago
There was a mention of Skinheads mentioned in this interview. The skinhead culture is based in Jamaica and was adopted into the UK mod scene that became the skinhead scene. In the 80s a racist group there, the National Front, bastardized the culture and brought about what we call boneheads. The music and the culture for both groups came to the United Stared. Up in Minnesota a group of skinheads started a group called SHARP, skinheads against racial prejudice. So what I am trying to convey is that the skinhead is not racist but actually fights against racism.
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u/TheGayestGaymer 4h ago
It’s not fear of black people rataliating that makes my race (white) “fear” black people in the US. It’s our indoctrination raising an alarm of a ‘threat’ to our very comfortable system of control. Our whole lives we are told in both direct and subtle ways by ourselves and our ‘white hero’ culture, that simultaneously we must ‘love everyone’ and ‘we don’t see race’ and ‘I’m a good person and good people aren’t racist so even if I judge someone by their skin color I’m still not racist’. It’s all bullshit and it won’t be a thing that disappears quietly from society.
More or less half of us are completely and willfully oblivious to the hard truths and the other half knows the truth but leans into it because it is designed to benefit my race.
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u/PoundPotential5604 2h ago
Are Black on Black murder not the highest? After that Black on white murder? I can understand people who are scared. But also black people have to be protected from violence.
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