The Amerikkkan Idol
As of recently I'm really starting to see that. Especially the anti black woman bullshit. However the title came from the video. I was only sharing a video that I believed had an interesting point of view. I was interested to see what others would think about it. Nothing more than that.
Jews are more of the extreme end. Can't really compare them to blacks. However this behavior is seen in other "bound" cultures, blacks are the only group that I know of to really put ourselves within a box so to speak. If a black person does something out of the "black mainstream" many are quick to criticise or say "they arent black". Regardless of what others are doing I feel it is something that needs to die within our community. Ultimately it will only cause strife within us (or add to it).
Usually it's not a career choice that blacks make a big deal of. Blacks tend to make an issue out of the personal life style choices of other blacks, or their personal tastes. Hell even fashion. To me it seems to be magnified in our community even though it exists to a lesser degree in others. I mean what gives one black person the right to judge another black person for what they like?
How many people even hold that view? If anything I see alot of those italian players being celebrated.
Blacks tend to be some what split down the middle when it comes to interracial themes. However at the end of the day we still have no right to dictate how a stranger should live their life. If it was a relative it would make a little more sense, but people are going to do what they want regardless.
The issue was never black "cultural norms". The issue was with villifying those who don't always engage in them. Or think outside of these "norms". At the end of the day people gravitate towards what fits in with their personal taste. To demonize someone or make them an outcast is foolish. It's just like what the fellow in the video said "You can't be free if you have you let yourself be a slave to what someone else wants" and thats the truth.
Although it was whites that first brought this concept on, many blacks also engage in this as well these days. Much of that is a result of the decline of the black "community". Many blacks hold onto the concept of "everyman for himself" these days. I can't say this mentality is right or wrong. Just a different ideology I suppose.
1. Nah, there's plenty of "What's Wrong With Black People" type threads that aren't about Black women specifically. Hell, there was even a few threads talking about how Black porn is inferior to White porn. Virtually every topic of "Why can't Blacks be________" has been done to death on here.
2. The Black skin makes it harder for us to camouflage ourselves like those other ethnic group, which bounds us together. Therefore whenever Jew is out of the "Jew" mainstream, they just change their names and become White, and their Jewishness isn't really even thought of anymore. Same thing with a lot of Latinos. You look at people like Jon Stewart or Raquel Welch or whomever. You don't find out to years later they're Jewish or Latino or whatever. When you're Black, you don't have that option. Your Blackness is on constant display and you are therefore constantly compared to other Blacks favorably or unfavorably
Asians go through this a lot too, because they are the only other group that cannot completely camouflage themselves, because of their eyes, so you see people like Margaret Cho talking about constantly being judged by how she's representing Asians.
3. Everybody judges everybody on what they like. If you're White and go down the street dressed in a pink mohawk and covered in spikes, you think other Whites aren't judging you? Whatever group you're in, if you try to be different, while in that group, there's gonna be some resistance. Ask somebody who's from The South or a from a Catholic background, what happens when they stray from the cultural norms of their background.
4. I don't see any Italian baseball players really being celebrated, because there aren't that many Italian baseball players, which is my point.
5. I agree, but that's all cultures. Black people react 10x better when people marry outside of our race than most other races do, when their family marries Black. WE may clown you or call you a sellout or something, but many Asians, Whites, and Latinos will completely DISOWN you. When is the last time you saw a Black person DISOWNED for marrying an Asian or Latino, or even White? They look at marrying us as disgracing the whole family, race, and faith, and culture. They might kill ya.
Mama may not like it, but she's not disowning you generally speaking. Not like that. Oh My God, I didn't even cover Arabs and what they'd do to their daughters who marry Black.
6. I agree, vilifying people is wrong, but not unique to Black people, therefore it is not a "problem with Black folks", but a "problem with folks". You will not get the same treatment by us that Asians, Latinos, or Arabs give people who break their cultural norms. We'll just make fun of ya.
7. It's what YOU are calling for, aren't ya? The reason White folks do what the hell they want is because they don't have an identity, and I've shown you that the ones that do, whether they're Jews, Italians, or Irish, or whatever, they're just as intolerant, or even more intolerant than we are of our own.
