My best friend is white.
She doesn't claim Rasta, but she loves Bob.
She studies alot about Native American culture.
I am Black.
I am a Rasta and I love Bob.
My mother is half Native American.
White people have rhytm, it's just different, for instance Black people ususally hit the 2 and the 4, white people ususally hit the 1 and the 3.
The average white person has recieved more abuse, physical and mental, from their household, parents and/or other family members, than any other race. While many races have long traditions of spanking, they have little history of true abuse. Things such as locking a child in a closet, putting out cigarettes or cigars on a child's flesh, tying a child to something, sexual abuse, etc. it's just that most people never find out about it. Not to say that whites are the only ones, just that it happens far more often than many people would ever imagine.
Black people have a larger history of poverty than most other races. Things such as sharing a small amount of clothing between all the children of a household. Saving the greese from frying various foods (fish, chicken, etc). Food stamps, project housing, welfare, WIC, section eight, etc. and that's only Black Americans. There are also things like 4 kids in one small bed, two at the head and two at the feet. Sleeping on blankets laid out on the floor. Borrowing food from a neighbor, being hungry all the time, having utillities shut off (phone, electricity, gas) for extended periods of time. Using last years school supplies. Having a pair of shoes until they had to be taped up, long past when they fit your feet. Hand-me-downs that were hand-me-downs when the person who gave them to you got them. Not that other races don't experience these things, but it's common knowledge to most Black people.
"You don't have a clue the things that white people have gone through in the past. "
To say that I have no clue what white people have gone through is somewhat insulting and certainly ignorant based on the fact that most history books are written by whites and therefore tell the history of white people.
In fact what you should have said is that white people have done just as much to other whites; as well as Asians, Latinos, and every other race; as they have to Black people.
However, that has very little to do with my statement. At no point have I said anybody was better or worse than anybody else. I have only said that I don't want to be anything other than Black. I could honestly care less what all the other races do with/for themselves because it doesn't concern me. If white people want to renounce their whiteness and be called blue or tan or taupe or whatever, that's fine with me. Just don't tell me that I must give up Black for your comfort or to be a Rasta or to be rightious or whatever. My God made me Black. Excuse the language but fuck anybody who thinks my God is wrong, ever. If your God makes mistakes, that's on you, but my God does not have accidents.
"There is so much brainwashing and selfhatred in the white culture, they should be praised for even surviving."
Why should I praise a people for surviving themselves?
No I prasie everyone else for surviving them. I will praise them when they overcome themselves. And what makes it worthy for a people to survive when they are endangered by themselves?
If elephants started killing each other, would we say poor elephants how will they survive now? No, we would say, my goodness why are the elephants killing each other? And then we would study the elephants to find out why so that we could stop them.
Now, if those same elephants started killing everything that moved, would we say, poor elephants they need guidance? Maybe, but most likely we would start killing elephants.
"All you people are doing is despising people who are poorer than you. And I have to say, black culture is beautiful, and black people are strong and great compared to other races."
No, Black people are strong and great period. Why should we compare ourselves to other people when we were great before other people existed, we've been here the longest.
Who is poorer than we? And who are "you people"?
We didn't start the war, it was brought to our doorstep, then we were carried to the battlefield. We don't even want to fight this war, we don't see the point. No matter who wins, we still lose. We want to go back to our peaceful lives, our beautiful continent, our Black King, our simple existance. We don't really care what everybody else does, we never did, we still don't. Everybody else thinks that that is selfish because we had what they wanted and after they took it from us we still had what they wanted. And when they took that, we still had something they wanted. We can't take off our birth right. We haven't stolen Blackness from somebody, it was given to us by God. Anybody who has a problem with that has to go speak with God, we have nothing to do with it. We many not have ever been perfect, but dammit we were happy and we were free. Now were are beaten and cursed and demeaned because nobody can take from us what they really want, to have this Blackness for themselves. So they call us racist, but how can that be true? We didn't go out and change the world, the world came and changed us. They call us stupid, but how can that be true? We invented the arts and sciences in KMT, thousands of years before the Greeks had philosophers.
Jealousy is a terrible thing. Stop it. Stop trying to guilt Black people back into submission. Think about it, who can run Black people except Black people? Why would you want to? Why can't you just leave us alone and let us be happy and free. It was not until Rasta allowed white people in that we had so many problems. Nobody argued Blackness because we were all Black. Nobody argued the movement, because that's what we had joined. White people get a privilage and want to bite the hand, what if the hand takes back it's food.
When was the last time you saw a Black Mormon?
If you did see one, do you think they would argue the color of Joseph Smith?
Why can't white people just accept what is being offered without trying to tear it appart? Why can't they accept the same message that was given to my father and his Idren? Why can't they understand that Rasta is not the world, it is Rasta. Why must they refuse to leave and refuse to accept what's here at the same time? Can't they understand that this is exactly why so many Black people consider white people the devil?
Sigh. My trod is too heavy for you to ride on my back. Walk your own road.
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