An Interesting Take on BLM

[Archon_Wing]

Not without merit, but to downplay black people as a whole because of excessive focus on BLM seems a bit tunnel visoned?

"It comes down to the individual"
"Correlation does not imply Causation"

< Then makes generalizations based on various picked statistics. :p

> Also Asians is a fucking huge group. And despite their overall "success", the disparity exists quite a bit between the rich and poor-- and it is huge. And of course, just because some Asians are successful seems to be always the convenient way of justifying racism all around. It's just your typical divide and conquer shit. They're not all the same either, but I suppose people don't care about that. Then again white people are apparently a huge group too that are all homogenous too.

The failure here is comparing black people against other groups, when they should be comparing poor people of different groups against each other. As the reason poor people get caught in the downward spiral is class and race is merely just one part of the equation. In other words, focus on why poor people are poor and not this faction bullshit.

Well tbh, I felt the video was a fresh take on retooled concepts, and from someone who clearly felt the need to correct the serous issues befalling blacks due undoubtedly to her identifying as such. You are correct that this is mostly about class, but she makes some great points about affording more grant money to black in college having no meaningful impact due to their retention rate... so clearly money is also not the issue as you make it seem. I think there is more truth to her words than is being acknowledged here.

I thought by now, a lot of you would have gotten tired of identity politics, but why are we dwelling on it?

As I said, a fresh take on old concepts with a huge potential to help millions without looking down upon them in any way... what's the downside here, please enlighten me? She's only advocating teaching safe sex, respect for each other, and hard work. What's so wrong with this? I'm quite certain she's on to the truth, but if you sincerely feel the current status quo on how either blacks (or the poor as you put it) treat each other is having such a positive meaningful impact in our current culture, then I suppose her positive ideas are nothing more than gutter trash for ignorant hopefuls like myself.

It should be fairly obvious, isn't it? The only way to move past race is to move on. This isn't fresh at all. It is an old recycled concept to explain why people are they way they are as a justification to push responsibility back on the people suffering. There's also a degree of truth in it too, because individuals should make choices for themselves instead of blaming it all on inequality but it's ultimately tunnel visioned because it's only one side of a coin.

Leave it back in the 1930s and 40s.

We should be in a time where we have to realize people are more diverse than 3 groups. This a'int Starcraft.

The more people get caught in past transgressions and the idea of "winning", the longer it will last. Now this doesn't mean people should forget what happened, but there's nothing productive being done here.

Oh yea, as for the rest of it correlation//causation. Well, I'm just going to say that there's a lack of control factors. Kinda amateurish, even for laymen.

The status quo, as you speak, is one of perpetual conflict, justification, and division, and I will have no part in it.