The Maelstrom of Violence

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-08-2017, 11:43 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: PBR is a white liberal so of course he doesn't get it.  After all he knows more about being black than I do, never mind the fact that I am black.

In general I would say that the problem is that studying, speaking with correct grammar and getting good grades results in success, success that often means leaving the ghetto and the low life's behind.  Some of this could be "caving to the man", some of it could be "them doing that makes me look bad" but to be perfectly honest I think I know the true source.

That source is that the success of those blacks who study, speak with proper grammar and get good grades in school prove that the left's victim narrative is really self-imposed.  That more than anything else aggravates those who are the first to start shouting about other blacks "acting white".

I can appreciate most of that while saying you can look deeper.  There are some blacks --often dancers, singers, sometimes athletes -- who can add a bit of swagger and class to what they do while the white folk stand around either resenting, admiring and sometimes imitating.  The black shtick isn't entirely negative.  

Yet, i can try to appreciate what Kinser is saying.  If you think you can get ahead by not training yourself, by standing out, by expecting special treatment, by not standing out in a constructive way, good luck, think again.  If it is a positive in some professions, if you can live up to it, it isn't a positive everywhere.  The analogy is of the nail sticking itself up a little bit drawing the hammer.

If as a software engineer I developed a stereotype of what blacks in the field are like, I figure they mostly had to try a little harder and be a little better than those around them.  Somewhere along the line they had it tough.  That is not a great thing, but it made them better people.  By the time they had graduated from college I was generally happy to have them on the team.  I'd say that most of them didn't push the traditional black shtick of being different, being hip, being better.  Yet they fit in.  Yes they gave up something in the process.  It seemed worth it for them.

Should there be a way of mixing the two approaches, drawing positives from the different options?  Probably.  There are no doubt people who have tried and succeeded to some degree.  Am I the right person to give detailed advice?  Likely not.

Kinser?  I'm still figuring that out.  There are times he seems less interested in dodging the hammer than yelling to draw attention as it as it is coming down.