White People Are Having The Worst Black History Month Ever

[Cass LeChat]

Congratulations you two! You must be so glad to have a buddy in your promotions campaign! >^_^<

[bryant.coleman]

Black Lives Matter is in response to the massacre of black people by white cops.  Anything other than supporting it is racist bullshit. There's no reason someone would have to justify saying Black Lives Matter, unless you're a racist who doesn't think black lives matter and need to interrupt people when they're talking about it, further derailing any discussion of racism.

Blacks are not the only group of people shot dead by the cops in the United States. A lot of Non-Hispanic Whites, Asians, Hispanics and Native Americans were also shot dead by the American cops in the year 2015.

You need to see this:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#

A total of 1,140 people were shot dead by the cops in 2015. Of them, 578 (or more than half of the total) were non-Hispanic white.

[TECSHARE]

Black Lives Matter is in response to the massacre of black people by white cops.  Anything other than supporting it is racist bullshit. There's no reason someone would have to justify saying Black Lives Matter, unless you're a racist who doesn't think black lives matter and need to interrupt people when they're talking about it, further derailing any discussion of racism.

Blacks are not the only group of people shot dead by the cops in the United States. A lot of Non-Hispanic Whites, Asians, Hispanics and Native Americans were also shot dead by the American cops in the year 2015.

You need to see this:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database#

A total of 1,140 people were shot dead by the cops in 2015. Of them, 578 (or more than half of the total) were non-Hispanic white.

Yeah but... Critical Theory says all white people are oppressors, so the only lives that matter are black lives! Because after all you can't be oppressed when someone imagines you to be their oppressor!

Narcissism + ignorance = Marxism

[bryant.coleman]

Yeah but... Critical Theory says all white people are oppressors, so the only lives that matter are black lives! Because after all you can't be oppressed when someone imagines you to be their oppressor!

Narcissism + ignorance = Marxism

The liberal media only cares about the "Black" lives, as if the others are subhuman.

One more thing about the number of people shot dead by the cops in 2015. When we compare the race-specific crime rates with the number of people who were shot dead by the cops, it is clear that the White offenders were shot much more often than their black counterparts.

There has been hue and cry over the murder of some 19-year old black male, who charged at a cop with baseball bat. But has anyone ever heard about 12-year old Ciara Meyer, who was shot dead by the cops in Pennsylvania?



What about the 6-year old Jeremy Mardis, who was shot dead by black police officer Derrick Stafford?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/six-year-old-louisiana-boy-killed-police

[electronicash]

History can only tell though.
The Spinx and the heads of Pharaohs in Egypt are actually being documented and that they we're black people And so I guess they rule the ancient world.

[stevegreer]

True, I thought it was a bit rude for the whole thing at the Superbowl halftime to occur. Was a huge slap in the face to white people...

Good.  They fucking needed it. Who the fuck are you, white boy? Get out of this thread.

So you post an article someone else wrote (without even giving credit to the author) which goes on and on about how whitey is a racist and that only by having whitey accept the fact that we are responsible for all of the problems black Americans are facing... And then you respond with a very racist and hate-filled response to someone's comment.
Here's a thought: instead of blaming whites for all of your so-called problems, why not take responsibility for your own actions instead? Why not get over your own hypocritical hatred of whites? Why not take a good look in the mirror yourself?

[TECSHARE]

True, I thought it was a bit rude for the whole thing at the Superbowl halftime to occur. Was a huge slap in the face to white people...

Good.  They fucking needed it. Who the fuck are you, white boy? Get out of this thread.

So you post an article someone else wrote (without even giving credit to the author) which goes on and on about how whitey is a racist and that only by having whitey accept the fact that we are responsible for all of the problems black Americans are facing... And then you respond with a very racist and hate-filled response to someone's comment.
Here's a thought: instead of blaming whites for all of your so-called problems, why not take responsibility for your own actions instead? Why not get over your own hypocritical hatred of whites? Why not take a good look in the mirror yourself?

She can't do that. Marxism and SJWs are like magnets for narcissists. The one thing narcissists can not handle more than anything is self examination. This is why they rely so heavily on censorship. It is like cryptonite to them. If you ever expose a narcissist in public expect them to attack you as if you threatened their life. Marxism and SJWs just give these mentally ill people an avenue to enable their destructive mental imbalance, and plenty of people just like them so they can hide even further from themselves in an attempt to normalize their abhorrent behavior.

[stevegreer]

True, I thought it was a bit rude for the whole thing at the Superbowl halftime to occur. Was a huge slap in the face to white people...

Good.  They fucking needed it. Who the fuck are you, white boy? Get out of this thread.

So you post an article someone else wrote (without even giving credit to the author) which goes on and on about how whitey is a racist and that only by having whitey accept the fact that we are responsible for all of the problems black Americans are facing... And then you respond with a very racist and hate-filled response to someone's comment.
Here's a thought: instead of blaming whites for all of your so-called problems, why not take responsibility for your own actions instead? Why not get over your own hypocritical hatred of whites? Why not take a good look in the mirror yourself?

She can't do that. Marxism and SJWs are like magnets for narcissists. The one thing narcissists can not handle more than anything is self examination. This is why they rely so heavily on censorship. It is like cryptonite to them. If you ever expose a narcissist in public expect them to attack you as if you threatened their life. Marxism and SJWs just give these mentally ill people an avenue to enable their destructive mental imbalance, and plenty of people just like them so they can hide even further from themselves in an attempt to normalize their abhorrent behavior.

Very true. She is a mirror image of her Narcissist-in-Chief POTUS, Barry Obama. I'm sure she voted for him based solely on the color of his skin without any regards to his accomplishments (or lack thereof, in his case) while in the Senate. Oh no! I dared speak out against the Chosen One! I must be a racist.

[designerusa]

Black artists are using high profile events as a platform to discuss race, making some whites uncomfortable. It shouldn’t, because the discussion is overdue.

Race is never a comfortable topic. So often we talk about living in a post-racial society, a society where the color of one’s skin is not mutually exclusive to the content of their character.

But this is not the reality. Instead of transcending issues of race, we’ve shoved it in a closet with the hope that it would stay buried underneath the rest of our dirty laundry. And in the process of doing that, new generations grew, many of them never knowing what it meant to hate someone just because of their skin color.

When Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, we were told “racism is over”, and yet bigotry only grew. First in subtle ways, and then, when pushed, bigotry exploded. Maybe not with the force of the burning hatred of the ’60s and before, but one could argue that subtle, seething hatred, mixed with outright denial is even more insidious.

So now, in 2016, America finds itself faced with a blown-open closet where racism and bigotry once again paint the room of our collective discussions and people are extra unhappy about it on both sides.

Much of this unhappiness is rooted in frustration and fear. For so long, black Americans have felt voiceless, and with the election of Obama, they’re told that all those past aggressions are now dead and buried. If a black man can be president, then our transgressions are forevermore anchored to the past.

And yet, it endures.

We live in an America that hasn’t been more divided…wait, that’s not true. That’s being dishonest.

When this plea turns to black entertainers and athletes using their given platform to put up a mirror to the ulcerating wounds that are now festering with each incident, instead of understanding, we hear claims of “reverse racism”.

What is true, however, is the fact that our divisions have never been more magnified. It’s one thing to call each other niggers and honkeys in the privacy of our own homes, amongst like-minded people, but now…now through the magic of Social Media, we can see the effects of racism and bigotry played out in living color, and that’s no pun.

We see the murders of Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown and so many other black men and women, and they’re sent around the country, around the world with just a keystroke, and instead of a collective THIS IS WRONG, we started to hear how they were wrong.

We blamed the victims in an era where victim shaming is supposed to be anathema. Except, somehow, when it comes to black people.

When this resistance to this disproportionate treatment becomes too much for one community to endure, it turns into #BlackLivesMatter, and instead of collective reflection and sympathy, we start to hear that all lives matter, even though the very idea of having to say that black lives matter means that clearly there is a perception that they don’t matter enough.

Yet some, a growing number of people, see #BlackLivesMatter as black lives matter more.

When this plea turns to black entertainers and athletes using their given platform to put up a mirror to the ulcerating wounds that are now festering with each incident, instead of understanding, we hear claims of “reverse racism”.

And now we’re half way through Black History Month 2016, a month where certain “fair and balanced” news outlets peddle certain black women to decry its very existence, and America is being taken to task during their favorite events, and it’s not going over well…at all.

The match was lit in of January, with Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith publicly boycotting the Academy Awards over lack of diversity, not only in nominations, but in Hollywood as a whole. The reaction was not loud, and largely brushed off as we moved onto more pressing things in the 24-hour news cycle.

As February moved on the discussion focused on the value of Cam Newton as a black quarterback in the Super Bowl, even though there had been other black quarterbacks, yet there hadn’t been a black quarterback quite like Cam, and people were becoming vocal about their distaste of a man who simply wouldn’t bow or bend or capitulate to the demands of a white society that required its black entertainers to be safe and palatable.

And then, the Super Bowl 50 halftime show.

Beyonce, one of those black performers who often seems to get the “she transcends race” pass, did a tribute commemorating the formation of the Black Panther Party during her routine, and everything that mainstream America loved and appreciated about their black performer with the flowing blonde hair turned into resentment and in some cases, hatred.

Beyonce making a public statement against police brutality, something that we all should be opposed to, largely because police brutality is actually something that also transcends race, and yet her performance was not only perceived as anti-police, but also anti-white.

This is where a huge disconnect lies, and it speaks to the idea that we are not in the post-racial society we’d like to think we’re in.

By the time the Grammys aired Monday night, some were already tired of having their noses rubbed in race. For some, the discussion alone was too much, and the hope was that whatever it was Beyonce did at the Super Bowl would calm down enough to let us settle back into our cocoons of avoidance.

And then, Kendrick Lamar took the stage.


Coming on stage in chains, Lamar delivered a forceful message of rage and desperation in verse, and mixed with the imagery, it dropped with all the force of a megaton bomb.

Lamar held up a mirror to all of America during a live telecast which reached millions of people and he called himself a “Proud Monkey” as he lamented the state of black America in his lyrics.

On February twenty sixth I lost my life too
It’s like I’m here in a dark dream
Nightmare, hear screams recorded
Say that it sounds distorted but they know who it was
That was me yelling for help when he drowned in his blood
Why didn’t he defend himself? Why couldn’t he throw a punch?
And for our community do you know what this does?

February 26, 2012 was the date George Zimmerman gunned down an unarmed Trayvon Martin, and as Lamar delivered his performance, he wasn’t indicting white America. He wasn’t demanding white America’s blood. He was simply asking white America to understand and absorb his pain, because his pain is our pain, even if some of us would rather ignore it.

By the time his performance ended, we were singed, we were frozen in the glow of a man who not only used the platform given to him to not beg for mercy, but rather demand for it.

Of course, the cries of reverse racism and hate came out right on schedule. (See original for screenshots)

There are white people out there who are so bothered by the very notion of blackness, the very idea that race must be addressed after being ignored for so long that the only way to avoid even having a substantive discussion on race relations in America is to accuse anyone who brings it up as being racist.

It’s this reality that is exactly why we need these performances from Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar. We need the defiance of Cam Newton and sadly we need articles like this to remind everyone that race is not something to be ignored on one hand and used as a weapon on the other.

We are not in a post-racial society because more black men are receiving harsher sentences for first-time offenses.

We are not in a post-racial society because black Americans make less money than white Americans for doing the same work.

We are not in a post-racial society because black Americans don’t have access to the same loans than white Americans.

Most importantly, we are not in a post-racial society because black Americans cannot express their pain without white Americans bristling and calling them racist.

Are white people having the worst Black History Month ever? Probably not. Most of these issues can continue to be ignored, and people can continue to shove these issues back in the closet, but for the sake of all of us, those practices have to come to an end.

The only way for us to truly reach the post-racial society we want to have is to recognize that race matters and that if one of us suffers, society suffers. We are capable of such great feats, such monumental moments, and yet black people feel limited and white people fear retribution.

Coming together, once and for all, means embracing all of our shortcomings and looking ourselves in the mirror to confront our own bigotries and those of our family, friends and co-workers.

If you want performances like we’ve seen in the last month to end, you have to accept why they exist in the first place.

Black lives do matter. So do white lives. But we cannot say that all lives matter until we act like it. The time for avoidance is over.

http://neverdaunted.net/white-people-are-having-the-worst-black-history-month-ever/

i am really done with this stuff...  all the racist saying must be banned all over the world .. we shoul admit that we are just a simple human being .. it doesnt matter whether we are black or white...

[Zeke2345]

Think the CassleChat persona has finished creeping in this forum. The thoughts where damaged just like the person.
So to expect rational thought from her/him would be like pissing in the wind.

If the troll does start to post hateful threads in the future we can write her/him off by not reading or writing anything.

[bryant.coleman]

Think the CassleChat persona has finished creeping in this forum. The thoughts where damaged just like the person.
So to expect rational thought from her/him would be like pissing in the wind.

If the troll does start to post hateful threads in the future we can write her/him off by not reading or writing anything.

He was active just a few hours ago. So he is still here.

That said, everyone is free to express his/her opinion here. There is no point in censoring anything. That will be against free speech. I am going to reply to his posts, as long as he is not engaging in personal attacks. The other users have replied to his posts and have posted evidence to prove that his claims were wrong. He has run away from his topic, as he does not have any answer. 

[Cass LeChat]

True, I thought it was a bit rude for the whole thing at the Superbowl halftime to occur. Was a huge slap in the face to white people...

Good.  They fucking needed it. Who the fuck are you, white boy? Get out of this thread.

So you post an article someone else wrote (without even giving credit to the author) which goes on and on about how whitey is a racist and that only by having whitey accept the fact that we are responsible for all of the problems black Americans are facing... And then you respond with a very racist and hate-filled response to someone's comment.
Here's a thought: instead of blaming whites for all of your so-called problems, why not take responsibility for your own actions instead? Why not get over your own hypocritical hatred of whites? Why not take a good look in the mirror yourself?

She can't do that. Marxism and SJWs are like magnets for narcissists. The one thing narcissists can not handle more than anything is self examination. This is why they rely so heavily on censorship. It is like cryptonite to them. If you ever expose a narcissist in public expect them to attack you as if you threatened their life. Marxism and SJWs just give these mentally ill people an avenue to enable their destructive mental imbalance, and plenty of people just like them so they can hide even further from themselves in an attempt to normalize their abhorrent behavior.

Very true. She is a mirror image of her Narcissist-in-Chief POTUS, Barry Obama. I'm sure she voted for him based solely on the color of his skin without any regards to his accomplishments (or lack thereof, in his case) while in the Senate. Oh no! I dared speak out against the Chosen One! I must be a racist.

I'm Canadian. 

[Cass LeChat]

Black artists are using high profile events as a platform to discuss race, making some whites uncomfortable. It shouldn’t, because the discussion is overdue.

Race is never a comfortable topic. So often we talk about living in a post-racial society, a society where the color of one’s skin is not mutually exclusive to the content of their character.

But this is not the reality. Instead of transcending issues of race, we’ve shoved it in a closet with the hope that it would stay buried underneath the rest of our dirty laundry. And in the process of doing that, new generations grew, many of them never knowing what it meant to hate someone just because of their skin color.

When Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, we were told “racism is over”, and yet bigotry only grew. First in subtle ways, and then, when pushed, bigotry exploded. Maybe not with the force of the burning hatred of the ’60s and before, but one could argue that subtle, seething hatred, mixed with outright denial is even more insidious.

So now, in 2016, America finds itself faced with a blown-open closet where racism and bigotry once again paint the room of our collective discussions and people are extra unhappy about it on both sides.

Much of this unhappiness is rooted in frustration and fear. For so long, black Americans have felt voiceless, and with the election of Obama, they’re told that all those past aggressions are now dead and buried. If a black man can be president, then our transgressions are forevermore anchored to the past.

And yet, it endures.

We live in an America that hasn’t been more divided…wait, that’s not true. That’s being dishonest.

When this plea turns to black entertainers and athletes using their given platform to put up a mirror to the ulcerating wounds that are now festering with each incident, instead of understanding, we hear claims of “reverse racism”.

What is true, however, is the fact that our divisions have never been more magnified. It’s one thing to call each other niggers and honkeys in the privacy of our own homes, amongst like-minded people, but now…now through the magic of Social Media, we can see the effects of racism and bigotry played out in living color, and that’s no pun.

We see the murders of Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown and so many other black men and women, and they’re sent around the country, around the world with just a keystroke, and instead of a collective THIS IS WRONG, we started to hear how they were wrong.

We blamed the victims in an era where victim shaming is supposed to be anathema. Except, somehow, when it comes to black people.

When this resistance to this disproportionate treatment becomes too much for one community to endure, it turns into #BlackLivesMatter, and instead of collective reflection and sympathy, we start to hear that all lives matter, even though the very idea of having to say that black lives matter means that clearly there is a perception that they don’t matter enough.

Yet some, a growing number of people, see #BlackLivesMatter as black lives matter more.

When this plea turns to black entertainers and athletes using their given platform to put up a mirror to the ulcerating wounds that are now festering with each incident, instead of understanding, we hear claims of “reverse racism”.

And now we’re half way through Black History Month 2016, a month where certain “fair and balanced” news outlets peddle certain black women to decry its very existence, and America is being taken to task during their favorite events, and it’s not going over well…at all.

The match was lit in of January, with Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith publicly boycotting the Academy Awards over lack of diversity, not only in nominations, but in Hollywood as a whole. The reaction was not loud, and largely brushed off as we moved onto more pressing things in the 24-hour news cycle.

As February moved on the discussion focused on the value of Cam Newton as a black quarterback in the Super Bowl, even though there had been other black quarterbacks, yet there hadn’t been a black quarterback quite like Cam, and people were becoming vocal about their distaste of a man who simply wouldn’t bow or bend or capitulate to the demands of a white society that required its black entertainers to be safe and palatable.

And then, the Super Bowl 50 halftime show.

Beyonce, one of those black performers who often seems to get the “she transcends race” pass, did a tribute commemorating the formation of the Black Panther Party during her routine, and everything that mainstream America loved and appreciated about their black performer with the flowing blonde hair turned into resentment and in some cases, hatred.

Beyonce making a public statement against police brutality, something that we all should be opposed to, largely because police brutality is actually something that also transcends race, and yet her performance was not only perceived as anti-police, but also anti-white.

This is where a huge disconnect lies, and it speaks to the idea that we are not in the post-racial society we’d like to think we’re in.

By the time the Grammys aired Monday night, some were already tired of having their noses rubbed in race. For some, the discussion alone was too much, and the hope was that whatever it was Beyonce did at the Super Bowl would calm down enough to let us settle back into our cocoons of avoidance.

And then, Kendrick Lamar took the stage.


Coming on stage in chains, Lamar delivered a forceful message of rage and desperation in verse, and mixed with the imagery, it dropped with all the force of a megaton bomb.

Lamar held up a mirror to all of America during a live telecast which reached millions of people and he called himself a “Proud Monkey” as he lamented the state of black America in his lyrics.

On February twenty sixth I lost my life too
It’s like I’m here in a dark dream
Nightmare, hear screams recorded
Say that it sounds distorted but they know who it was
That was me yelling for help when he drowned in his blood
Why didn’t he defend himself? Why couldn’t he throw a punch?
And for our community do you know what this does?

February 26, 2012 was the date George Zimmerman gunned down an unarmed Trayvon Martin, and as Lamar delivered his performance, he wasn’t indicting white America. He wasn’t demanding white America’s blood. He was simply asking white America to understand and absorb his pain, because his pain is our pain, even if some of us would rather ignore it.

By the time his performance ended, we were singed, we were frozen in the glow of a man who not only used the platform given to him to not beg for mercy, but rather demand for it.

Of course, the cries of reverse racism and hate came out right on schedule. (See original for screenshots)

There are white people out there who are so bothered by the very notion of blackness, the very idea that race must be addressed after being ignored for so long that the only way to avoid even having a substantive discussion on race relations in America is to accuse anyone who brings it up as being racist.

It’s this reality that is exactly why we need these performances from Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar. We need the defiance of Cam Newton and sadly we need articles like this to remind everyone that race is not something to be ignored on one hand and used as a weapon on the other.

We are not in a post-racial society because more black men are receiving harsher sentences for first-time offenses.

We are not in a post-racial society because black Americans make less money than white Americans for doing the same work.

We are not in a post-racial society because black Americans don’t have access to the same loans than white Americans.

Most importantly, we are not in a post-racial society because black Americans cannot express their pain without white Americans bristling and calling them racist.

Are white people having the worst Black History Month ever? Probably not. Most of these issues can continue to be ignored, and people can continue to shove these issues back in the closet, but for the sake of all of us, those practices have to come to an end.

The only way for us to truly reach the post-racial society we want to have is to recognize that race matters and that if one of us suffers, society suffers. We are capable of such great feats, such monumental moments, and yet black people feel limited and white people fear retribution.

Coming together, once and for all, means embracing all of our shortcomings and looking ourselves in the mirror to confront our own bigotries and those of our family, friends and co-workers.

If you want performances like we’ve seen in the last month to end, you have to accept why they exist in the first place.

Black lives do matter. So do white lives. But we cannot say that all lives matter until we act like it. The time for avoidance is over.

http://neverdaunted.net/white-people-are-having-the-worst-black-history-month-ever/

i am really done with this stuff...  all the racist saying must be banned all over the world .. we shoul admit that we are just a simple human being .. it doesnt matter whether we are black or white...

It's important to recognize the history of how we got to this point because we're not all equal. Even if you think you aren't doing racist things, being raised in a racist culture means you do them without understanding - not that they don't happen. So it does actually matter what our race is because that's how we can respectfully rebalance and find healing.

[Slow death]

Black artists are using high profile events as a platform to discuss race, making some whites uncomfortable. It shouldn’t, because the discussion is overdue.

Race is never a comfortable topic. So often we talk about living in a post-racial society, a society where the color of one’s skin is not mutually exclusive to the content of their character.

But this is not the reality. Instead of transcending issues of race, we’ve shoved it in a closet with the hope that it would stay buried underneath the rest of our dirty laundry. And in the process of doing that, new generations grew, many of them never knowing what it meant to hate someone just because of their skin color.

When Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, we were told “racism is over”, and yet bigotry only grew. First in subtle ways, and then, when pushed, bigotry exploded. Maybe not with the force of the burning hatred of the ’60s and before, but one could argue that subtle, seething hatred, mixed with outright denial is even more insidious.

So now, in 2016, America finds itself faced with a blown-open closet where racism and bigotry once again paint the room of our collective discussions and people are extra unhappy about it on both sides.

Much of this unhappiness is rooted in frustration and fear. For so long, black Americans have felt voiceless, and with the election of Obama, they’re told that all those past aggressions are now dead and buried. If a black man can be president, then our transgressions are forevermore anchored to the past.

And yet, it endures.

We live in an America that hasn’t been more divided…wait, that’s not true. That’s being dishonest.

When this plea turns to black entertainers and athletes using their given platform to put up a mirror to the ulcerating wounds that are now festering with each incident, instead of understanding, we hear claims of “reverse racism”.

What is true, however, is the fact that our divisions have never been more magnified. It’s one thing to call each other niggers and honkeys in the privacy of our own homes, amongst like-minded people, but now…now through the magic of Social Media, we can see the effects of racism and bigotry played out in living color, and that’s no pun.

We see the murders of Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown and so many other black men and women, and they’re sent around the country, around the world with just a keystroke, and instead of a collective THIS IS WRONG, we started to hear how they were wrong.

We blamed the victims in an era where victim shaming is supposed to be anathema. Except, somehow, when it comes to black people.

When this resistance to this disproportionate treatment becomes too much for one community to endure, it turns into #BlackLivesMatter, and instead of collective reflection and sympathy, we start to hear that all lives matter, even though the very idea of having to say that black lives matter means that clearly there is a perception that they don’t matter enough.

Yet some, a growing number of people, see #BlackLivesMatter as black lives matter more.

When this plea turns to black entertainers and athletes using their given platform to put up a mirror to the ulcerating wounds that are now festering with each incident, instead of understanding, we hear claims of “reverse racism”.

And now we’re half way through Black History Month 2016, a month where certain “fair and balanced” news outlets peddle certain black women to decry its very existence, and America is being taken to task during their favorite events, and it’s not going over well…at all.

The match was lit in of January, with Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith publicly boycotting the Academy Awards over lack of diversity, not only in nominations, but in Hollywood as a whole. The reaction was not loud, and largely brushed off as we moved onto more pressing things in the 24-hour news cycle.

As February moved on the discussion focused on the value of Cam Newton as a black quarterback in the Super Bowl, even though there had been other black quarterbacks, yet there hadn’t been a black quarterback quite like Cam, and people were becoming vocal about their distaste of a man who simply wouldn’t bow or bend or capitulate to the demands of a white society that required its black entertainers to be safe and palatable.

And then, the Super Bowl 50 halftime show.

Beyonce, one of those black performers who often seems to get the “she transcends race” pass, did a tribute commemorating the formation of the Black Panther Party during her routine, and everything that mainstream America loved and appreciated about their black performer with the flowing blonde hair turned into resentment and in some cases, hatred.

Beyonce making a public statement against police brutality, something that we all should be opposed to, largely because police brutality is actually something that also transcends race, and yet her performance was not only perceived as anti-police, but also anti-white.

This is where a huge disconnect lies, and it speaks to the idea that we are not in the post-racial society we’d like to think we’re in.

By the time the Grammys aired Monday night, some were already tired of having their noses rubbed in race. For some, the discussion alone was too much, and the hope was that whatever it was Beyonce did at the Super Bowl would calm down enough to let us settle back into our cocoons of avoidance.

And then, Kendrick Lamar took the stage.


Coming on stage in chains, Lamar delivered a forceful message of rage and desperation in verse, and mixed with the imagery, it dropped with all the force of a megaton bomb.

Lamar held up a mirror to all of America during a live telecast which reached millions of people and he called himself a “Proud Monkey” as he lamented the state of black America in his lyrics.

On February twenty sixth I lost my life too
It’s like I’m here in a dark dream
Nightmare, hear screams recorded
Say that it sounds distorted but they know who it was
That was me yelling for help when he drowned in his blood
Why didn’t he defend himself? Why couldn’t he throw a punch?
And for our community do you know what this does?

February 26, 2012 was the date George Zimmerman gunned down an unarmed Trayvon Martin, and as Lamar delivered his performance, he wasn’t indicting white America. He wasn’t demanding white America’s blood. He was simply asking white America to understand and absorb his pain, because his pain is our pain, even if some of us would rather ignore it.

By the time his performance ended, we were singed, we were frozen in the glow of a man who not only used the platform given to him to not beg for mercy, but rather demand for it.

Of course, the cries of reverse racism and hate came out right on schedule. (See original for screenshots)

There are white people out there who are so bothered by the very notion of blackness, the very idea that race must be addressed after being ignored for so long that the only way to avoid even having a substantive discussion on race relations in America is to accuse anyone who brings it up as being racist.

It’s this reality that is exactly why we need these performances from Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar. We need the defiance of Cam Newton and sadly we need articles like this to remind everyone that race is not something to be ignored on one hand and used as a weapon on the other.

We are not in a post-racial society because more black men are receiving harsher sentences for first-time offenses.

We are not in a post-racial society because black Americans make less money than white Americans for doing the same work.

We are not in a post-racial society because black Americans don’t have access to the same loans than white Americans.

Most importantly, we are not in a post-racial society because black Americans cannot express their pain without white Americans bristling and calling them racist.

Are white people having the worst Black History Month ever? Probably not. Most of these issues can continue to be ignored, and people can continue to shove these issues back in the closet, but for the sake of all of us, those practices have to come to an end.

The only way for us to truly reach the post-racial society we want to have is to recognize that race matters and that if one of us suffers, society suffers. We are capable of such great feats, such monumental moments, and yet black people feel limited and white people fear retribution.

Coming together, once and for all, means embracing all of our shortcomings and looking ourselves in the mirror to confront our own bigotries and those of our family, friends and co-workers.

If you want performances like we’ve seen in the last month to end, you have to accept why they exist in the first place.

Black lives do matter. So do white lives. But we cannot say that all lives matter until we act like it. The time for avoidance is over.

http://neverdaunted.net/white-people-are-having-the-worst-black-history-month-ever/

i am really done with this stuff...  all the racist saying must be banned all over the world .. we shoul admit that we are just a simple human being .. it doesnt matter whether we are black or white...

It's important to recognize the history of how we got to this point because we're not all equal. Even if you think you aren't doing racist things, being raised in a racist culture means you do them without understanding - not that they don't happen. So it does actually matter what our race is because that's how we can respectfully rebalance and find healing.

In my opinion it seems to me that you are full of hatred in the heart

starting from the moment that you say shot black man and white woman shot these being racist what we are trying to do is to call people

by their names believe the US die more color citizens "white" than the color "black"

We have many films which have good actors like samuel jackson lee (my favorite actor) Denzel Washington, Will Smith are people of great

 name and begin to remember the past and collect every discrimination that blacks suffer you will get more hate

Arabs suffer discrimicao US

Mexicans suffer discrimination in the US

are not black people who have this kind of problem

The problem is in the minds of people who still use the word "black" "white" "that black man" "that white home"

Stop it, people have a name

The not press should say black citizen was shot when the name of this citizen is Paul

must say, Paul was shot!

[Cass LeChat]

Black artists are using high profile events as a platform to discuss race, making some whites uncomfortable. It shouldn’t, because the discussion is overdue.

Race is never a comfortable topic. So often we talk about living in a post-racial society, a society where the color of one’s skin is not mutually exclusive to the content of their character.

But this is not the reality. Instead of transcending issues of race, we’ve shoved it in a closet with the hope that it would stay buried underneath the rest of our dirty laundry. And in the process of doing that, new generations grew, many of them never knowing what it meant to hate someone just because of their skin color.

When Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, we were told “racism is over”, and yet bigotry only grew. First in subtle ways, and then, when pushed, bigotry exploded. Maybe not with the force of the burning hatred of the ’60s and before, but one could argue that subtle, seething hatred, mixed with outright denial is even more insidious.

So now, in 2016, America finds itself faced with a blown-open closet where racism and bigotry once again paint the room of our collective discussions and people are extra unhappy about it on both sides.

Much of this unhappiness is rooted in frustration and fear. For so long, black Americans have felt voiceless, and with the election of Obama, they’re told that all those past aggressions are now dead and buried. If a black man can be president, then our transgressions are forevermore anchored to the past.

And yet, it endures.

We live in an America that hasn’t been more divided…wait, that’s not true. That’s being dishonest.

When this plea turns to black entertainers and athletes using their given platform to put up a mirror to the ulcerating wounds that are now festering with each incident, instead of understanding, we hear claims of “reverse racism”.

What is true, however, is the fact that our divisions have never been more magnified. It’s one thing to call each other niggers and honkeys in the privacy of our own homes, amongst like-minded people, but now…now through the magic of Social Media, we can see the effects of racism and bigotry played out in living color, and that’s no pun.

We see the murders of Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown and so many other black men and women, and they’re sent around the country, around the world with just a keystroke, and instead of a collective THIS IS WRONG, we started to hear how they were wrong.

We blamed the victims in an era where victim shaming is supposed to be anathema. Except, somehow, when it comes to black people.

When this resistance to this disproportionate treatment becomes too much for one community to endure, it turns into #BlackLivesMatter, and instead of collective reflection and sympathy, we start to hear that all lives matter, even though the very idea of having to say that black lives matter means that clearly there is a perception that they don’t matter enough.

Yet some, a growing number of people, see #BlackLivesMatter as black lives matter more.

When this plea turns to black entertainers and athletes using their given platform to put up a mirror to the ulcerating wounds that are now festering with each incident, instead of understanding, we hear claims of “reverse racism”.

And now we’re half way through Black History Month 2016, a month where certain “fair and balanced” news outlets peddle certain black women to decry its very existence, and America is being taken to task during their favorite events, and it’s not going over well…at all.

The match was lit in of January, with Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith publicly boycotting the Academy Awards over lack of diversity, not only in nominations, but in Hollywood as a whole. The reaction was not loud, and largely brushed off as we moved onto more pressing things in the 24-hour news cycle.

As February moved on the discussion focused on the value of Cam Newton as a black quarterback in the Super Bowl, even though there had been other black quarterbacks, yet there hadn’t been a black quarterback quite like Cam, and people were becoming vocal about their distaste of a man who simply wouldn’t bow or bend or capitulate to the demands of a white society that required its black entertainers to be safe and palatable.

And then, the Super Bowl 50 halftime show.

Beyonce, one of those black performers who often seems to get the “she transcends race” pass, did a tribute commemorating the formation of the Black Panther Party during her routine, and everything that mainstream America loved and appreciated about their black performer with the flowing blonde hair turned into resentment and in some cases, hatred.

Beyonce making a public statement against police brutality, something that we all should be opposed to, largely because police brutality is actually something that also transcends race, and yet her performance was not only perceived as anti-police, but also anti-white.

This is where a huge disconnect lies, and it speaks to the idea that we are not in the post-racial society we’d like to think we’re in.

By the time the Grammys aired Monday night, some were already tired of having their noses rubbed in race. For some, the discussion alone was too much, and the hope was that whatever it was Beyonce did at the Super Bowl would calm down enough to let us settle back into our cocoons of avoidance.

And then, Kendrick Lamar took the stage.


Coming on stage in chains, Lamar delivered a forceful message of rage and desperation in verse, and mixed with the imagery, it dropped with all the force of a megaton bomb.

Lamar held up a mirror to all of America during a live telecast which reached millions of people and he called himself a “Proud Monkey” as he lamented the state of black America in his lyrics.

On February twenty sixth I lost my life too
It’s like I’m here in a dark dream
Nightmare, hear screams recorded
Say that it sounds distorted but they know who it was
That was me yelling for help when he drowned in his blood
Why didn’t he defend himself? Why couldn’t he throw a punch?
And for our community do you know what this does?

February 26, 2012 was the date George Zimmerman gunned down an unarmed Trayvon Martin, and as Lamar delivered his performance, he wasn’t indicting white America. He wasn’t demanding white America’s blood. He was simply asking white America to understand and absorb his pain, because his pain is our pain, even if some of us would rather ignore it.

By the time his performance ended, we were singed, we were frozen in the glow of a man who not only used the platform given to him to not beg for mercy, but rather demand for it.

Of course, the cries of reverse racism and hate came out right on schedule. (See original for screenshots)

There are white people out there who are so bothered by the very notion of blackness, the very idea that race must be addressed after being ignored for so long that the only way to avoid even having a substantive discussion on race relations in America is to accuse anyone who brings it up as being racist.

It’s this reality that is exactly why we need these performances from Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar. We need the defiance of Cam Newton and sadly we need articles like this to remind everyone that race is not something to be ignored on one hand and used as a weapon on the other.

We are not in a post-racial society because more black men are receiving harsher sentences for first-time offenses.

We are not in a post-racial society because black Americans make less money than white Americans for doing the same work.

We are not in a post-racial society because black Americans don’t have access to the same loans than white Americans.

Most importantly, we are not in a post-racial society because black Americans cannot express their pain without white Americans bristling and calling them racist.

Are white people having the worst Black History Month ever? Probably not. Most of these issues can continue to be ignored, and people can continue to shove these issues back in the closet, but for the sake of all of us, those practices have to come to an end.

The only way for us to truly reach the post-racial society we want to have is to recognize that race matters and that if one of us suffers, society suffers. We are capable of such great feats, such monumental moments, and yet black people feel limited and white people fear retribution.

Coming together, once and for all, means embracing all of our shortcomings and looking ourselves in the mirror to confront our own bigotries and those of our family, friends and co-workers.

If you want performances like we’ve seen in the last month to end, you have to accept why they exist in the first place.

Black lives do matter. So do white lives. But we cannot say that all lives matter until we act like it. The time for avoidance is over.

http://neverdaunted.net/white-people-are-having-the-worst-black-history-month-ever/

i am really done with this stuff...  all the racist saying must be banned all over the world .. we shoul admit that we are just a simple human being .. it doesnt matter whether we are black or white...

It's important to recognize the history of how we got to this point because we're not all equal. Even if you think you aren't doing racist things, being raised in a racist culture means you do them without understanding - not that they don't happen. So it does actually matter what our race is because that's how we can respectfully rebalance and find healing.

In my opinion it seems to me that you are full of hatred in the heart

starting from the moment that you say shot black man and white woman shot these being racist what we are trying to do is to call people

by their names believe the US die more color citizens "white" than the color "black"

We have many films which have good actors like samuel jackson lee (my favorite actor) Denzel Washington, Will Smith are people of great

 name and begin to remember the past and collect every discrimination that blacks suffer you will get more hate

Arabs suffer discrimicao US

Mexicans suffer discrimination in the US

are not black people who have this kind of problem

The problem is in the minds of people who still use the word "black" "white" "that black man" "that white home"

Stop it, people have a name

The not press should say black citizen was shot when the name of this citizen is Paul

must say, Paul was shot!

That's because you're stunted emotionally. Asking for compassion and consideration for hundreds of years of genocide and the present daily violence is like... the opposite of hatred.  And I can talk about blackness without needing to speak to every marginalization. Saying black lives matter doesn't mean others don't and if you think that, you're the one full of hatred at the very idea of a black person being respected.

[Moloch]

That's because you're stunted emotionally. Asking for compassion and consideration for hundreds of years of genocide and the present daily violence is like... the opposite of hatred.  And I can talk about blackness without needing to speak to every marginalization. Saying black lives matter doesn't mean others don't and if you think that, you're the one full of hatred at the very idea of a black person being respected.

I only respect black people who don't blame all their problems on the white man...

[Moloch]

I love how desperate you are for attention, you keep coming back despite being ignored long ago Moloch, but it's kind of pathetic how you keep fapping off to yourself and your buddies.

So... lemme get this straight... you block me, pretend that you don't read what I post... then you continue trolling the person you blocked?  Sure, seems legit...



If you weren't such a waste of time, I would photoshop this into a black woman, just for you

[Moloch]

It's amazing I don't even need to read your message to know it's a pathetic waste of time and you probably should have used those seconds to do something productive. xo You'd think you'd go and play in your own threads, but obviously you're still desperate for attention.

Why would you waste your time responding to a post you supposedly didn't read? (over and over again?)

Can't stop trolling anyone and everyone?

[bryant.coleman]

It's amazing I don't even need to read your message to know it's a pathetic waste of time and you probably should have used those seconds to do something productive. xo You'd think you'd go and play in your own threads, but obviously you're still desperate for attention.

You have not positively responded to any of the posts made by the other users here. For example, in post no.24, I had pointed out that White offenders were shot by the cops much more often than their black counterparts. Do you have any proof to claim otherwise? Also, Moloch had posted a stat proving that 47% of the murders in the US are committed by blacks (in another thread). 13% of the population, and 47% of the murders. Isn't there something wrong with all this?

[Moloch]

Congratulations to you too bryant. Even if you can't manage to be a useful contribution to society otherwise, please keep promoting my topics and moving them up.

Yes, please... let the whole world know how much of a racist and bigot you are

I suppose I can add hypocrite to that list