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Various races have always had their time in the limelight. What divides blacks now is if they are muslim or not. Tomorrow we will focus on another race and find new problems that are not there.I'm not reading a book. I'm reading in Medium the interesting discussion some people is involved with about the TV show Dear White People.
Just an example of a conversation
A worte this:
Here’s the thing, Black people can’t ever be accused of racism because the very idea that a community that is continuously submerged under the filth of a mired past and problematic future, can somehow reclaim the disposition of entitlement against a system that was created for their dismemberment — is ludicrous.
B replyed:
The day I know the black man is free, is when we can write and speak for ourselves without inciting unnecessary hate or love for that matter, for whiteness. The day we feel our words hold power all on their own without a single reference, positive or negative, about whiteness.
A said:
I was going to give a full on response to this, but after carefully reading it again I have concluded that it would be best to keep it short and sweet.
My advice would be for you to continue to dwell in your bubble of contentment and leave reality to the rest of us to tackle.
B said:
I live in Lagos, Nigeria. In the same country you come from incidentally. I’m replying this from my computer powered by a small Chinese made generator that will be on all night because there is no electricity. There hasn’t been all day and there wasn’t yesterday too. The current Naira to dollar rate is N506. A bare five/six months ago it was N125 and we thought it was too damn much then. The Nigerian president has gone AWOL for the last 3–4 months. Presumable somewhere in America or the UK. The common consensus being that he’s sick and there is no hospital in Africa good enough he can check into. What are my chances. Only you can manage the mental gymnastics required to think I live in a bubble at all, talk less of a contented bubble. It must be the same way you manage to make Beyonce look like a suffering saint for losing an award to Adele that will be up for grabs again in roughly 10–12 months.
I won't give my opinion, just say that my position in life is closer to B, the man from Nigeria, than to Beyonce's. I'm not blaming anyone, because I'm my own master and I hate victim's mentality and chains, even the golden ones. From my humble point of view this discussion about blackness and whiteness is pointless and dangerous. I'm sorry for the ones who (maybe) with good intentions contribute to fuel the fire of social division. Empires are destroyed in this way, from inside. I can imagine the faces of satisfation of Putin and the Chinese guys witnessing this. Let's someone investigate who put the money, who pay propaganda, and we will find the ones who expect to receive benefits from U S social division. The same strategy was used with other big country during the last century and nobody seems to remember it.
I'll have a mocca latte to go, please.