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Black people are the most forgiving people on earth.

 
Casper 2020-08-02 09:49:23 

Comment.

 
Sangfroid 2020-08-02 10:15:36 

White people are most barbarous people on earth. Comment...

 
nitro 2020-08-02 11:32:52 

In reply to Casper

Tell that to the many black families suffering losses, slauhgtered in black hoods..at the hand of their own folks.

 
camos 2020-08-02 11:41:37 

In reply to Sangfroid

White people are most barbarous people on earth. Comment...


true!

 
steveo 2020-08-02 12:49:06 

In reply to camos

Do you see the amount of white people rioting against the police in the name of BLM??

In other countries you are beaten out and burnt down for being a minority, in the US the majority race joins you, that is something

White people suffering white guilt and conquerors remorse at the moment

 
Casper 2020-08-02 12:49:28 

In reply to nitro

I thought I was giving you and your kind (like thinking and outlook) a chance to have a real debate and all you could do is respond with right-wing talking points meant to shift blame.

At least, as a juxtaposition, ’froids and frauds made an honest statement, revealing even once in a while the truth can emerge from such a source.

 
Casper 2020-08-02 12:52:31 

In reply to steveo

No brownie points from me.

 
steveo 2020-08-02 12:55:09 

In reply to Casper

No brownie points from me.


You should let them know

 
JahJah 2020-08-02 13:28:47 

In reply to Casper

Are you feeling unwell?

 
camos 2020-08-02 14:46:35 

In reply to nitroT

ell that to the many black families suffering losses, slauhgtered in black hoods..at the hand of their own folks.



maybe it is a sign of the trait Casper is talking about?

 
Casper 2020-08-02 21:46:19 

In reply to JahJah

Are you feeling unwell?


I am doing quite fine, thank you.

Maybe for Steveo and others, I should have added one word. “No Brownie points from me, yet.

My magnanimity can be extended in due course, based on sustained efforts and results.

 
Casper 2020-08-04 17:14:25 

The One-Sided Nature of Black Forgiveness.


We have seen this movie before. No. Not at the movies. In real life.

In Charleston, South Carolina, in the summer of 2015. There is great turmoil in the Palmetto state amid cries to remove the confederate flag from atop the State House. America is grappling once again with its racial past vis-à-vis Confederate monuments and whether or not they should be removed.

A neo-Nazi named Dylann Roof walked into the historic Mother Emanuel AME Church and sat through a peaceful Bible study, and, after it ended, killed nine black men and women in the church with an assault weapon. Left the church. Was captured peacefully by police, and taken to Burger King to eat before he was interrogated.

After this horrific racist, terrorist act, members of the shattered families were interviewed and some of them offered forgiveness and mercy to the unrepentant murderer, much as Botham Jean’s brother, 18-year-old Brandt Jean, hugged 31-year-old former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger as she was sentenced this week for murdering his older brother.



This is a part of the America we experience as black and brown people daily. Not only do we receive no apologies when wronged, we are constantly told we are making racism up, and that we need to shut up and stop being trouble-makers.



The reality is black people have been conditioned in America to be “forgiving” when our white brothers and sisters do us harm. It dates back to slavery. It extends through Jim Crow. It was tested during the Civil Rights Movement when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for peaceful non-violent protest in the face of brutality and lynchings of black people in the South. Malcolm X and his camp had a different take: We will fight back. We will not take it. We will beat the hell out of those that beat us.

Dr. King’s strategy was of course much more palatable to moderate white Americans watching the march on Selma and other events where blacks could be seen being beaten, attacked by dogs or hosed, and it moved public opinion in favor of civil rights.

But at what cost? Why do black people always have to be like Rep. John Lewis, whom I revere but who forgave a white racist who almost beat him to death on the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma? Why must our mothers stand and forgive racist police officers for choking their sons on the sidewalk? Why must we always show our temperance, and goodness, when others take our lives? Why does the forgiveness always seem to go in one direction?

 
Casper 2020-08-04 17:19:31 

Why Are Black People So Forgiving?

Is this why?

I think, in my heart, I am a nationalist. And yet I am thankful that to a member of community that is wiser than me, one that understands that ideals are just that when they have no guns to back them up. These people are not noble. To the contrary, they have always been coldly opportunistic.They are forgiving because they have common sense. They are forgiving because they do not have the weaponry to be any other way

 
Casper 2020-08-04 17:24:38 

The problem with always asking black people to forgive.


"Why do black folks always have to forgive?" CNN analyst Bakari Sellers tweeted Wednesday after video of the Jean-Guyger hug went viral. "We can have a conversation about black folk and our unconscionable forgiveness in the face of hate and violence. I don't get it."
Sellers' sentiment was shared by many corners of black America on social media. Many said black people have been conditioned by years of trauma to reflexively offer forgiveness, especially when the perpetrator is a white person.

 
Casper 2020-08-04 17:28:56 

The Insanity of White Justice and Black Forgiveness.

There is no way to discuss America, its history, even the very nature of its democracy, without also discussing race, racism, and what this nation has done to its black populations from slavery forward. Indeed, as I have said before, slavery was not only devastating to black folks physically, but I would argue that those endless hours of back-breaking free labor coupled with severe brainwashing on those plantations—believing everything white was right and everything black was wrong—remain within us, consciously and subconsciously, emotionally and spiritually, to this very day. Through the end of slavery and legalized segregation, through the Civil Rights era, through the birth of hip-hop, right on up to Black Lives Matter. If you teach a people, any people, to hate themselves, in school, in popular culture, at church, they will develop a warped sense of what is right and what is wrong, and will go out of their way to find goodness and forgiveness even in the worst forms of oppression and injustice.

 
Casper 2020-08-04 17:36:17 

Central Park’s Black Birdwatcher Betrays All Five Centuries of the Black Freedom Struggle.

Christian Cooper, the 57-year-old black birdwatcher who filmed white female dog walker Amy Cooper as she tried to sic, not her dog, but the NYPD on him for daring to challenge her refusal to leash the dog — that Christian Cooper has now refused to press charges against her for, among other things, making a false police report.
Christian Cooper explained himself in the New York Times. He allowed that Amy Cooper (no “relation”), 41, has suffered enough since the May incident, in that, so far, she has lost her career, her — presumably — good reputation, and even the damn dog, which unintentionally served as the flashpoint for this whole imbroglio.



How many teary-eyed white families have we witnessed so earnestly, so painfully, so publicly, and so sorrowfully forgive their loved ones’ black murderer?
Black people are the most forgiving people on earth. Concomitantly, save the Native American, black people are the most defeated people on earth.

 
dayne 2020-08-04 17:51:25 

In reply to Casper

Very true that's why they temporarily lost most of the continent of Africa and many lives crossing the Atlantic on ships of people who had tricked them into believing they were their friends

 
nick2020 2020-08-04 18:07:56 

In reply to JahJah


Are you feeling unwell?


lol

That made my day.