/lit/ - Literature

Race problems in the USA are never going to be fixed because "White People" and "Black/POC People" form two sides of a toxic co-dependent relationship.

As long as "White" people exist as a category, "Blacks" can project their failures onto them and refuse any kind of meaningful self-criticism/growth within their communities. Every African American I've ever met was completely obsessed with their "identity" as a black person, and the politics of "oppression", but at the same time nearly every one was incapable of having an intelligent or nuanced conversation about history, politics, religion, etc. beyond their own victim complex. It's telling that actual African immigrants (who have an actual sense of historical being-in-the-world outside the American mass cultural complex) on average perform far higher not only than black people, but that most white Americans as well, forming some of the highest paid and most educated portions of society. Most Somalians, Ethiopians, Kenyans, etc. I've talked to were also capable of having a nuanced discussion of politics and history, and was able to make value judgements on those topics without personalizing or moralizing events into a forced narrative-- most Americans (black white or other) are incapable of this.

At the same time, "Whites" project their insecurities onto black people all the time. The anonymization of their communities, driven by economic mismanagement, consumerism, and the automobile, creates a feeling of omnipresent paranoia, which feeds into gun culture and regular murder of black people. White Americans don't know anybody in their neighborhoods, therefore they don't FEEL safe, but Americans (especially their whorish and puritanical women) believe that FEELING is an OBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE, so they see a group of young black men on their street, and have a sense of martial insecurity from being outnumbered. When poor Americans have to deal with the misery of poverty, they do so by projecting their faults onto blacks through minstrel shows-- "I am poor, but at least I have my dignity, unlike those coons over there". When Americans feel sexually inadequate (owing again to consumerism and the general entitlement of their women+ American cultural sensitivities against properly disciplining their wives and daughters), they again project it onto black people through rap music and pornography. For "White America", "Black America" has become a fetish and a totem which does not actually require any agency on the behalf of blacks.

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