Can blacks handle the truth?

CAN BLACKS HANDLE THE TRUTH?
© 2015


By Samuel K


African Americans, typically, don’t have a problem expressing themselves or “going off” on someone they disagree with. Yeah. And even if someone says something that’s true, if we disagree with it, we have ways of expressing our displeasure. We will call the person racist, Tom, and other insults. All of this suggests, we can dish it out, but we can’t handle the truth. Call it political correctness in black.


Fact is, no individual is perfect. You could say the same thing about groups. We’re all flawed. And yet, some of us, individuals as well as groups, act as if everything we say or everything we do is perfect.

For those who think this way, any comment that isn’t flattering is seen as a put down, or an insult. It’s as if any statement or comment that doesn’t pamper us or tell us over and over again what victims we are is interpreted as rejection, hate, or a put down.


When Spike Lee was producing the movie about Chicago’s black-on-black violence, “Chiraq,” he was immediately attacked on social media and elsewhere—by some Blacks. They so resented Spike’s critique, they likened him to a white racist, a Tom. Spike Lee, likened to a white racist? Spike Lee a Tom? All because he chose to shine a light on a serious problem the black community treats like incest in a family—black-on-black violence?


When those kinds of insults are hurled, it brings to mind the saying,


“TRUTH IS HATE TO THOSE WHO HATE THE TRUTH.”


In the book, “Black Lies, White Lies,” Journalist Tony Brown wrote,
“There is little room in the black community for freedom of expression, or for many of the other freedoms that Blacks demand from Whites. The black community is run by an oligarchy of brown shirt plantation overseers who could improve their Nazi impersonations only if they spoke German.”


Enter the Black Life Matters Movement. This is a group eerily close to Brown’s description. The group claims black lives matter. Yet it routinely ignores, arguably, the greatest threat to black lives—black-on-black violence. Whenever the hypocrisy of the Black Lives Matter movement is exposed, the “movement” can become quite sensitive.

But their kind of hypocrisy deserves to be exposed. When a group chooses the lofty name “Black Lives Matter,” it is putting a bullseye on it’s back, and it is inviting scrutiny. A group cannot call itself “Black Lives Matter” and be selective about which black lives matter and when. For example, the killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee by a gang thug should have mattered as much as the killing of LaQuan McDonald. But it did not.


Maybe BLM should re-brand itself to “Black Lives Matter, but only when the life is taken by a white cop.” Min. Farrakhan once said, “We are easily led in the wrong direction, but you would have great difficulty leading us in the right direction.” He was so right.


What makes the United States a great country is freedom of thought and freedom of speech. This is something you don’t see in many Middle Eastern or other countries. You also don’t see it much in the black community. We should welcome freedom of thought and different ideas more.


A growing number of Blacks are beginning to believe that if we focus more on self-help initiatives and stray from the victim’s narrative, we would begin to see more progress. On the other hand, other Blacks feel insulted when self-help initiatives are brought up. This group is content to marinate in victim sauce.