First, speaking as a Black man nothing riles the hell out of me like “ the Blacks”. It’s a loaded expression for many Black people because we hear it from people like Trump who isolate our humanity like we’re bugs under a microscope.
As to why any Black person would be supporting Donald Trump there’s a thing called Internalized Racism. In…
First, speaking as a Black man nothing riles the hell out of me like “ the Blacks”. It’s a loaded expression for many Black people because we hear it from people like Trump who isolate our humanity like we’re bugs under a microscope.
As to why any Black person would be supporting Donald Trump there’s a thing called Internalized Racism. Internalized racism is where Black people believe we’re inferior, believe we’re inherently criminals. We’ve accepted the stereotypes imposed on us by White supremacists and essentially hate our Blackness. Only a self hating Black person could sit in a Trump audience and listen to him claiming “ the Blacks” embrace him because he’s been indicted 4 times. The subtext is “ the Blacks” love him because he’s really one of us because he has “ street cred”. Internalized racism makes you sit and applaud your own degradation.
So black people are racist and that’s why they like Trump? Can’t possibly be that blacks look at the facts and decide that Trump is better for them than the corrupt puppet now in office? That’s incredibly racist in my book. Every black person has the same agency as anyone else.
Some Black peoples are CONFUSED. They’re also victims of Internalized Racism. Trump has shown time and time and time again he has no respect for Black people. Please reference Trumps call for the death penalty for the Central Park/ Exonerated Five. Trump took out a full page ad calling for the young Black and Brown men to be executed for the rape of a White female jogger. They were exonerated using DNA and to this day Trump won’t apologize for calling for these innocent men’s death. LISTEN TO Trump when he’s talking about “ the Blacks”. Only a self- hating Black person, or a Black person willing to give up our hard earned freedoms to live under Trump’s authoritarianism would be a Trump supporter. But self hate is a disease SOME Black people experience.
From the earliest days in this country there’ve been Black people willing to sell out other Black people for crumbs from the White racists’ table. Their mission is to oversee and try to control Black people.
I love my confused Brothers and Sisters. They have every constitutional right to vote against their own interests. They Do Not have the right to sell out mine or the vast majority of Black peoples’ interests.
First, speaking as a Black man nothing riles the hell out of me like “ the Blacks”. It’s a loaded expression for many Black people because we hear it from people like Trump who isolate our humanity like we’re bugs under a microscope.
As to why any Black person would be supporting Donald Trump there’s a thing called Internalized Racism. Internalized racism is where Black people believe we’re inferior, believe we’re inherently criminals. We’ve accepted the stereotypes imposed on us by White supremacists and essentially hate our Blackness. Only a self hating Black person could sit in a Trump audience and listen to him claiming “ the Blacks” embrace him because he’s been indicted 4 times. The subtext is “ the Blacks” love him because he’s really one of us because he has “ street cred”. Internalized racism makes you sit and applaud your own degradation.
Thanks for the comment- very insightful!
So black people are racist and that’s why they like Trump? Can’t possibly be that blacks look at the facts and decide that Trump is better for them than the corrupt puppet now in office? That’s incredibly racist in my book. Every black person has the same agency as anyone else.
Some Black peoples are CONFUSED. They’re also victims of Internalized Racism. Trump has shown time and time and time again he has no respect for Black people. Please reference Trumps call for the death penalty for the Central Park/ Exonerated Five. Trump took out a full page ad calling for the young Black and Brown men to be executed for the rape of a White female jogger. They were exonerated using DNA and to this day Trump won’t apologize for calling for these innocent men’s death. LISTEN TO Trump when he’s talking about “ the Blacks”. Only a self- hating Black person, or a Black person willing to give up our hard earned freedoms to live under Trump’s authoritarianism would be a Trump supporter. But self hate is a disease SOME Black people experience.
From the earliest days in this country there’ve been Black people willing to sell out other Black people for crumbs from the White racists’ table. Their mission is to oversee and try to control Black people.
I love my confused Brothers and Sisters. They have every constitutional right to vote against their own interests. They Do Not have the right to sell out mine or the vast majority of Black peoples’ interests.
Anti-Semites say the same thing about "The Jews."
Your point is extremely well-taken and well-written.
I second that emotion.