Reddit black man： ＂black people oppress themselves＂
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Summary
In this episode of the shameless berger, I discuss a recent Reddit post from a Redditor named who wrote in to ask a question. What is the connection between whiteness and intelligence and productivity? And why is it that people of color complain that they don't have an equal chance in life?
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hi folks i am the shameless berg i hope you're doing well today so today i want to get into
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this story from reddit true off my chest black people oppress themselves they certainly do
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obligatory i am black and before anyone tries to say i have a pass or something yes i'm clearly
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black not one of the black people that could maybe pass for white none of you fucking can okay there's
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no such thing that's probably just some cope that you guys talk about with each other we can all see
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it you still got like the bell pepper nose thing we can tell by your jawline and your facial structure
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and stuff none of you passes white remember folks half black and half white is still 100 brown not
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only are they not oppressed they're given all sorts of advantages and preferential treatment in society
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and they get to pretend that they're not then on top of that they get to pretend that we're the
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recipients of these things and we're taking them at their expense somehow i'm thinking back to what
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people are saying about their oppression things like they can't get the same jobs they can't go
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to the same schools etc but here's me i'm a guy with darker skin i hate saying i'm african-american
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because i have never even seen africa and i hate saying i'm black because i'm an arts student that
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did self-portraits and never used the color black besides my hair i follow your logic i get it you
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sound like you know a colorblind hyper individualistic white guy with average intelligence i i can see where
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you're coming from here but make no mistake you are black all right you are african just like i am
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inescapably white and european and i'm reminded by the collective black demographic that that's the
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case i can't get away from it you can't get away from it not saying i hate being me so don't get that
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mixed up i just don't like being defined by my skin tone quote-unquote black male but even with my skin
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color and being raised in what could probably be considered the hood of my city i speak properly
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oftentimes people say i speak white which i hate i graduated top 20 in my high school
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caught senioritis real bad and received scholarships to a very well-known prestigious predominantly
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white university that every single one of you will know if i said the name i am currently being
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paid 9 000 plus a year to go to that college well and they always do that stuff if you bother
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to speak proper english or you show an interest in any real education they call that acting white
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gee i wonder why why is there this sort of implicit connection between whiteness and intelligence and
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productivity hmm i just can't think of it he goes on meanwhile other people of my color complain that
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they don't have an equal chance in life well i mean they kind of don't okay you're born with
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certain capacities and limitations all right i mean you clearly are within the 10 of black people for
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whom the other 90 make look bad and stupid but the fact of the matter is even though you perceive for
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yourself that you had a chance in life it's because you're intelligent it's because you're above average
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in your community it's because you're smarter than they are okay in general they don't have an equal
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chance they don't have an equal chance either to you or to us as a collective and they don't want to
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deal with it okay they do not want to confront it but it's the truth it's the fact and that's why when
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you're trying to rise high they want to make sure that you stay down with them because not everybody
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can be equally raised but everybody could be equally lowered it honestly upsets me plenty of
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people in high school would just ignore the teacher and smoke in the bathroom or skip then wonder why
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life is treating them unfair after i mean yeah i even remember that kind of stuff from my high school
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days i was up to no good and i had a lot of black and brown friends we were all up to the same
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shenanigans and guess what we all got in the same trouble for it i didn't get a slap on the wrist i
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didn't get any different consequences i didn't get any different outcomes but guess what later on in
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life i made a lot of different decisions and i've gotten very different outcomes since then and see
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they also went on to make very different decisions in their own lives and the outcomes and output of their
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lives reflect those decisions but back when we were acting equally stupid we got equally stupid results
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it's amazing how that works isn't it and when i started to make better choices i got better results
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and when they didn't start making better choices they kept getting bad results i'm not oppressing
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them do you see how that works even with all of that said here's the thing and anyone is allowed
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to correct me as i have not actually done detailed research firstly twitter this was back when it was
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still called twitter primarily we have all probably heard of twitter and many people use it but i'm
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surprised to come across what's known as black people twitter which is the part of twitter that has all the
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black people or something like that i'm just throwing it out there but i don't think that a
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white mexican asian person made black twitter it is not a different app by the way for those that
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don't know i always thought that was funny you'd hear the constant references black twitter this black
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twitter that oh black twitter saying this oh wait till i show this to black twitter all right black
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twitter do your thing as though you guys created something as though you invented something designed
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something coded something you didn't it's just this collective hive mind of brainwashed black people
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and it's just it's a left-wing echo chamber basically or what was black people twitter a
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left-wing echo chamber just dark colored that's all it was and it's also a great way for them to enjoy
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double think of segregating themselves while also crying about the principle of segregation and
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discrimination they really like to have it both ways and black twitter is a perfect example of that
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he goes on something i've noticed these people around me do is create communities places where all the
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black people stick together and do whatever but why is there a need to create a community why is
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there a reason to create an entire term black people twitter the honest truth is they'll say
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they feel like they need these safe spaces these affinity spaces but in my opinion they're allowed to
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exist not so much for the benefit of black people but to constantly remind white people that they're
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being downgraded like look they can have these spaces but you can't in the name of equity i've seen a
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lot of examples like from university affinity spaces okay and i would see white people raise the issue
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like why do you guys get to have a black affinity space we don't get to have a white affinity space
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and you would hear some stupid shaniqua be like yeah that's because y'all already got everywhere else
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everywhere else already y'all's not everything about y'all we gotta have our own spaces y'all got y'all
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own spaces everywhere else y'all's as though everywhere else isn't actually just a common area where all the
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shaniquas and tyrones are also free to walk around just because you've entered a space and there's a lot of
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white people there doesn't make it a white exclusive space it doesn't make it a white affinity space
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you're allowed to walk right on through meanwhile we're not allowed to have our own spaces you know
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we can't have our own affinity spaces you can have those things you can have historically black churches
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historically black colleges you can have all these things but white people can't have them it's
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amazing that you get to have all this but you get to gaslight and project and have double think about
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it at the same time and i'm so fucking tired of it so he goes on it's literally just twitter and
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you are deciding to separate yourself from it by creating this space you're essentially saying
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us black people are not like you and separating themselves from the rest of the people they're not
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like us though so let's be honest like your your perception here is correct that is the statement
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they're making but i don't think they even realize the full gravity of the statement they very much are
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not like us we are very very different and it's not just skin deep okay he accurately points out here
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meanwhile if a white people twitter would be made it's racist and so what only white people allowed here
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they're separating themselves from everyone else then wondering why they're not seeing the same in the public eye
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well it's true they want to do this and then they want to cry about the legacy of discrimination
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the legacy of segregation but as long as you do them in the name of equity i've noticed about the
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left it's like everything that i say is universally and always evil 100 of the time and it's terrible
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and it's awful and look how offended i am by it and the more offended i am by it the more righteous
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and moral i am yeah all you fucking people and then want to turn around and cry to us about
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segregation and discrimination and all this bullshit you know inclusivity inclusivity anywhere there's
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too many white people congregated in one place that's not unaccosted or unaccompanied by black
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people it's a huge fucking problem then another example is me going off to college and losing
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touch with people i used to go to high school with because all they're doing now is smoking and throwing
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their life away while i'm trying to create a life for myself by doing that i'm told things like you
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really betraying your own kind i also hate because we're not some collective species we just share
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melanin i'm not related to you and my kind is not black humans you sound like a colorblind idealistic
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white kid from the 90s i understand all that shit but the fact of the matter is you are related to them
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you are of the same kind you're of the same blood you're of the same ancestry these are inescapable
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connections that you have with them all right even though you're individual so he goes on or when they say
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why don't you just go to an hbcu and the best of all we don't claim you anymore or call me racist
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names amazing that they'll break solidarity with you over trying to make something out of yourself
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isn't that incredible and they make it sound like we're the ones doing that to you dude i have no
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ill will for you and now i'd rather you go to africa of course if you're gonna be here i applaud you
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wanting to go do something with yourself i applaud you wanting to get education and to get into the
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career field and to become a productive member of society okay i wouldn't take that from you i don't
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want to hold you down from that isn't that amazing i'm this avowed white racist okay and i don't want
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to do that i'm not interested in holding you back in that way but your brothers in the struggle are
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so what the fuck is the deal and can you guys stop bitching at me about it i mean i'm literally being
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less oppressive in my stance towards you as an avowed white racist encouraging you to go do something
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than your brothers in the struggle are isn't that incredible but i'm still gonna have to go on
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hearing all this bullshit all the time about how racist and awful we are i mean yeah i'm racist but
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you know what does that really mean if i'm racist but i still would prefer that you went on to do
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better things than your brethren because why not of course if you have the intelligence and the ability
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please go do that i would much rather you be doing that than you know bumming around being some sort of
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hoodlum so he says tldr black people divide themselves from the rest of the world and then look around in
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shock when they realize there's a divide between them and the world it's incredible isn't it they
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do all this stuff and they wail and piss and moan and cry about segregation and discrimination and
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jim crow laws and the legacy of you know blah blah blah blah blah but then they'll go and do this
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because as long as it's in the name of equity there is absolutely nothing that they cannot and will not
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justify doing to you in the name of equity and there is no level of hypocrisy or double standards
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projection gaslighting too extreme for them to use in the in the pursuit of equity equitable outcomes
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and so i think that's what you're brushing up against here man you've got that hyper individualized
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attitude where you're not really thinking as a part of your race and i get that i lived that way for a
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long time your racial brethren kind of took that away from me as an option and now i have to think
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about it in these terms and now i kind of wouldn't go back even if i could because i've realized
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the truth of things but i can certainly comprehend your frustration here i understand where you're
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coming from you know i just i encourage you to understand that yeah they are your race they are
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your ethnicity but yeah i mean if you do have the ability to rise up higher than than they can then do
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it you know they can complain all they want but the fact of the matter is everybody cannot be equally
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elevated but the ones that are capable of rising higher they can be brought down to be equally low
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and that's exactly what they want you know i don't think they want you to escape the ecosystem
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of whining and crying and blaming and begging for things i think they want you to just be a part of
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that and i think you see that too and i can't blame you for not wanting to identify with it it makes
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sense to me but i agree with your conclusion here black people oppress themselves i don't do it i have no
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interest in i you know i just want them away from me you know i want them away from me my community
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my state my country i don't know just i don't get the fuck away from me i don't have any ill will for
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you actually please just go somewhere else and do better all right just go somewhere else and do
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better i evidently have better wishes for you than your brethren do isn't that funny anyway folks
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