Colin,
I used to work with JOHN, a black guy from Michigan who liked to “Fuck off at work” as he put it, “Because of what was done to his people”.
JOHN would rush through his work (metal finishing sheet metal parts for the high end Pickup trucks). When the poorly prepped parts came back to be done right, Eddie didn’t have to fix his work, it fell on all of his fellow workers.
Other forms of goofing off were shooting half-full bottles of soda into the garbage cans at far ends of the building, and talking on his cell phone for extended periods during work hours. I overheard him talking about it one day, and he said “If they fuck with me about it (management) I’ll fight it, and I’ll win”.
JOHN was proficient at playing the race card, and used his black privilege any time he could. When I mentioned this in a paper I wrote a couple years ago in college, my paper was down-graded because I “couldn’t say that”. My young social thinking white female Interpersonal communications Professor told me that even though it was true, I wasn’t allowed to speak that way about someone.
JOHN called me a “Stupid country fuck”, and about every other profanity in the book, I’m guessing that was okay, because he was obviously a very disturbed guy.
My family never owned slaves, or condoned slavery, so the Reparation theme is wearing thin with me, considering how hard I’ve had to work my whole life. Blacks I’ve worked and have been friends with, are for the most part ambitious, friendly, and helpful…except for the folks like JOHN.
They come in all colors and races, whatever you call it. According to the mounting evidence you present though, blacks in particular think they are “owed something”,
and it’s time to collect. It’s obviously time for the rest of us to organize, analyze, and do something about this increasing problem. I would suggest going beyond books, and making a movie, maybe Dinesh would be interested.
If people like Simone Shabazz can spew hate openly saying “If blacks wanna be free it’s time to kill some Crackers, you’re gonna hafta kill some of their babies, I hate every iota of a cracker” without being prosecuted for hate speech, then anybody should be able to say anything they want..period.
How many whites have been assaulted lately as a result of open racial hoStilities by blacks?
Thank you for bringing it out in the open Colin, keep up the good work,
