The Black Community Has No Allies
The city of Minneapolis had it’s third and most violent protest night. Many are in custody. Looting happened while my social media looks like a parallel universe.
One side is outraged, angry, tearful, frustrated and completely fed up. For the other side, it’s just a Friday after Labor Day weekend at best. At worst, it’s an opportunity to rebuttal on their ideas of people clearly at their wits end.
The Black community has no Allies.
So far:
- Protests against police brutality have continued in cities across the US, including Minneapolis, Denver, New York and Oakland following the killing of George Floyd.
- Crowds breached the 3rd Police Precinct station and set the entrance on fire. 170 businesses were either damaged, looted, or set ablaze. Onlookers cheered.
- All of this prompted, the governor of Minnesota to activate the National Guard. He would also declare a state of emergency in Minneapolis, St Paul and surrounding areas.
The worst part, even after voting 85% for Democrats in the 2016 elections; Black communities are offered nothing new. Black women voted 98% for Hilary. White women whiffed at the last minute and turned on her. In the end, the current nominee who ran on the fumes of the Obama presidency, Joe Biden stated that “You ain’t black” if you don’t vote for him and the democratic party.
After a disturbing video, White woman, Amy Cooper was fired from her job after she called the cops on a black man in Central Park. She called to falsify a claim that she was being threatened in attempt to get a black man murder or at the minimum jail and convicted. It’s important to note she was Liberal and voted Democrat. As stated before, Black people have no allies. It all sounds good until it suits Amy or the Karens of the world.
CNN’s Van Jones said a “white, liberal Hillary Clinton supporter” could pose a bigger threat to African Americans than the Ku Klux Klan when discussing the state of race relations in the United States following the violent protests that erupted in Minneapolis, and the false accusations made against an African-American man by a white woman in Central Park in New York City.
‘Oh I don’t see race, race is no big deal to me, I see all people the same, I give to charities’ but the minute she sees as black man who she does not respect, or who she has a slight thought against, she weaponized race like she had been taught by the Aryan Nation,” Jones said. “A Klan member could not have been better trained to pick up her phone and tell the police it’s a black man.”
The Black community is surrounded by all sides. When Chinese Americans were being wrongfully attacked in March of 2020, Blacks stepped up for justice.
Later that month, we found out what the Chinese citizens really thought of Black people in China.
All the while the Asian American Coalition for Education lobbies to unravel affirmative action in favor of themselves.
Black people step up for Hispanics. Many of which go mute when the issues affect black people.
Black people need to start approaching society differently, we have no allies. Most are merely using us to advance their own narrative.
It’s time that we start advancing our own.
The old strategy has failed for the last 20+ years. The social media outrage faux activism, protest til you are blue, cry and live in fear, advocate and vote Democrat and yet nothing…
Yeah, It is time to think differently. Or the rest is just more of the same.
I woke up this morning to the news, that the US House was establishing a commission to study societal issues impacting Black men. I’m thoroughly convinced that we are stuck in a time loop.
Please google the “Thirty-year Retrospective: Status of the Black Community in Miami-Dade”. It’s 107 pages. It chronicles the Metro Miami Action Plan’s research and report addressing the socioeconomic disparity in Miami-Dade. This should be required reading for all black people in the Dade county area. If you claim to be a leader, this should be on your desk asap if you haven't done so.
Addtl. Go to the Bibliography of these reports and read the other supporting reports. The issues have been known for years.
On top of that google the Color of Wealth reports. One of the major problems with creating groups and studies is that the money gets spent and no one bothers to read it.
