J Cole and Noname aside, there is validity in the critique of people who had the ‘privilege/benefit’ of being raised in ‘concious’ black household and how we interact with those that came to the knowledge at a later stage, without being condescending or holier than thou.
I can understand it tbh, and know I can be guilty sometimes. Partly I think it comes from fatigue, other times it’s feelings of isolation. Sometimes it’s resentment of lost innocence at an early stage. At the same time some people are just arseholes if we are honest loool
One of the drawbacks of being ‘pro-black’ educated from an earlier age is that you have a harsher world view. Being aware as child that you are in a ‘war’ is not good for psychology. Also many were put on the fringes by their peers who thought they were ‘radical’ back then
Some people spent their adolescent years trying to convince their (rightfully) blissfully ignorant mates that certain things in the classroom or playground were racially charged and systemic to be called a nut job to hear people regurgitate the same stuff 10 years later.
Cool. You are frustrated. We hear that looool but that doesn’t change the bottom line. Our people were deliberately died access to our history, pre-slavery and post, of insurgence and revolution. We can’t blame our people for that. If you can’t help educate at lest don’t mock it.
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