You’re walking down the street at night when you see a black person coming from the opposite direction.
What do you do? Cross the road, or keep walking?
This question is often asked in liberal arts lectures designed to get skittish white students to admit they’re racist.
I don’t know about you, but if I see the gentlemen above approaching, I won't cross the road, I'll outright turn around. Or jump on a passing streetcar.
Sorry if that makes me “racist.”
Yet if I saw two sisters giggling whilst enjoying an Aloha Apple, I think I’d stay the course.
The question is flawed as it restricts the circumstances to race, a similar theme to most Democrat and left-leaning beliefs.
In reality, the only black people I avoid are ghetto black people, or ghetto people of any other race.
This gentleman explains the issue well, but have your swear jar ready.
If you opt to pass, I’ll summarize for you: nobody, including black people, wants to be around ghetto black people.
And it’s not a racist position.
But let’s be fair.
Here’s a black police officer explaining to Stephen Crowder how some people change their tune when he’s not in uniform.
Then again, this guy would look intimidating if he was white, or any other skin color.
Sure, old-fashioned stereotypical racist whites exist, but most bigots aren’t born in the hoots and hollers of Kentucky or Mississippi.
They’re spawned in rich liberal communities like Mamaroneck, New York.
They go on to attend elitist institutions like New York University, then lord over national race relations from the comfort of a bean bag chair in a trendy Manhattan office or Ivy League campus.
After living life in a leftist echo chamber with limited contact with everyday Americans, they don’t understand the difference between race and culture.
Skin Color Is Not A Personality
Comedian Dave Chappelle outlined the contrasts between class and race in perhaps the funniest comedy skit of all time, the 2003 Frontline parody featuring Clayton Bigsby, a black white supremacist.
Growing up, Bigsby was the only black kid in the local school for the blind, so the admin figured it would be easier to omit his skin color from the lesson.
Bigsby basically became a white kid.
Later in life, he became a successful writer, publishing books that supported white supremacy. He also gained recognition as the leader of the local Klan outfit.
But only select members knew his secret.
Since Bigsby never removed his hood in public, nobody knew any different. Just like his blind classmates.
I don’t know Chappelle’s intentions with the production.
Maybe the only goal was to ‘mix the real with the absurd,’ which is how Buzz Aldrin once defined humor in an Ali G interview.
However intentional, Dave illustrated that our behavior and perception is not rooted in skin color, but our culture.
That’s how we get stereotypes.
Consider these black guys doing an impression of white people on a hike.
It’s hilarious, and I know this isn’t how “white people act” any more than selling drugs and robbing liquor stores is “how black people act.”
But these stereotypical white people exist, and I’ve seen them act similarly on hiking trails. The impressions are spot on.
And I’ve met plenty of blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and everyone else with stereotypical “white” personalities.
I’ve also met many rude white people, again, on hiking trails.
Like the lunatic that scoffed at my wife and I in the middle of the woods, in the summer of 2020, for not wearing masks.
And I’ve met white people that rob liquor stores and sell drugs as well.
Regardless of race, none of these people were born jerks, criminals, or polite.
Someone taught them.
Just like someone taught Pookie and Ray-Ray to be ghetto, and Clayton Bigsby to be racist.
And it wasn’t these women.
Democrats and leftists are largely responsible for encouraging blacks to get on welfare and incentivize divorce, destroying most black communities.
Can “Being Racist” Save Your Life?
I never thought I would agree with a black white supremacist, but I guess anything is possible these days.
What’s worse is this confusion between race and culture is costing people their jobs, safety, and lives.
In February, Democrat Congresswoman Angie Craig was assaulted in her apartment by a homeless black man.
According to the Daily Wire, Craig saw the man in her apartment lobby acting erratically. She greeted him and walked to the elevator as he followed.
When Craig entered the elevator, the man started doing push-ups, then got up and hit her with a closed fist.
The politician reacted by throwing coffee in his face before escaping.
Is it possible that the Congresswoman sensed danger but ignored her gut instinct because she was more worried about “being racist” than staying safe?
That seems to be the fear, and the precedent set.
In 2018, Hillary Brooke Thornton from St. Louis got fired from her job. A short video of her went viral, showing her refusing entry to a black man at her apartment complex because he didn’t have his key.
The black man, 24-year-old D’Arreion Toles did reside in the building, but he didn’t have his key fob with him to prove it.
In accordance with the complexes’ strict rule of not allowing access for people without their fob, she “harassed the person of color.”
Had this been a black woman refusing to let in a white man, would it make national news, or would it be written off as a safety precaution?
Since it was the other way around, her employer, Tribeca-STL fired her and she was made a national spectacle as “Key Fob Kelly.”
What’s more, she was apparently married to a “person of color” who took the opportunity to virtue signal on national television, expressing how disappointed he was in his ex-wife, in a cheap wedding suit.
It’s no wonder people are afraid to do anything that could get them branded as a “racist.”
Unfortunately, it’s taking a stronger toll on our kids.
In 2016, a 16-year-old British teen, Phoebe Conop killed herself after editing a selfie image with darker skin color that circulated out of the private chat group it was intended to remain.
Sadly, its just one example of many kids killing themselves, particularly girls, worldwide due to social media pressure.
Confusion between race and culture is destroying modern society. And thanks to Biden’s crime wave, I’ll likely avoid anyone walking down the street at night these days.
The lunacy does nothing for the common citizenry, and everything for the government and corporations by creating more laws and collecting more money.
They want us to base everything on race. Like we’re in prison.
Kudos to the establishment, I guess.
Because that’s the point.
When everyone thinks something is true, it does not make it anything more than effective marketing. -Clifton Hill