Touré: ‘There’s More to Blackness Than Bludgeoning People With Memories of Past Atrocities’
The 10 Commandments of Post-Modern Blackness, #3
May 11, 2012 - 7:35 am
Introduction: Post-Modern Blackness in Theory and Practice.
Part 1: Why Black Jesus Wears a Hoodie Today
Part 2: Spiritual Liberation Comes Through Worshiping Skin Color
“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in our society.”
I really want your analysis to be as widely read as possible, so I write simply to say I’m not sure what the graphics you keep featuring contribute to the topic. It takes a bit of time to figure out what the juxtaposition is about, for example. As a veteran motion graphics animator and designer, I’d suggest it’s critical to make visuals easy and very quick to understand – otherwise viewers will tend to move on. How many readers have opened your various and wonderful analyses of the racist Bell and his epigones only to close the file and move onto he next thing?
“How many readers have opened your various and wonderful analyses of the racist Bell and his epigones only to close the file and move onto he next thing?”
It’s impossible to know. (Though I didn’t create graphics like this for the Derrick Bell series. I just had the excerpts.) Once someone has loaded a webpage there’s no way to know if they scroll down a little or all the way to the bottom or if they read it and appreciated it. Only when we break up articles into multiple pages and see how many people choose to click through them all do we get an idea of if a piece is really effective at holding people’s attention.
But this is an ongoing experiment and I welcome your criticism and suggestions as I develop the style and approach.
“It takes a bit of time to figure out what the juxtaposition is about, for example.”
That’s the idea. That bit of time could be taken up with me bloviating and explaining something. Instead I think it’s more interesting to explore laying the various pieces on the table and suggesting a few connections the reader might want to consider.
The graphics are confusing.
Even I try to stay away from merely saying “a typical black” person, without putting in some actual, and factual context, like voting for Obama to the tune of 96%. That’s not black folks rising to my bigoted expectations, but something that actually happened. But Obama got clean away with it. On any talk show in America I’d be pilloried into the ground for doing so, nor do I want to anyway.
There are no “typical” black people, but there are typical politicized black folks on the Left who masquerade as liberals but are in fact very much Conservatives. They reside on the Left because life is good there, all their political demands met, all their myths believed, all their completely manufactured pain in 2012 empathized with, all their ludicrous double-standards and hypocrisies indulged, even when blacks turn the Trayvon Martin case into a symbol of the very myths and delusions they entertain about America which are completely false.
In that sense, the Martin case was a wake-up call to those who don’t read the black press and understand it’s nothing new, nothing new at all. The intellectual space that black American’s share with liberals is one of delusion and shame, giving and taking shame in equal parts, for the history of America. This history of America, the way it is portrayed and decontextualized on the black and white liberal Left, in fact never even happened.
When it comes to the Civil War for example, the Left lie about it as much as ultra-weirdo’s that claim it was about state’s rights. When it comes to lynchings, you’d think a million black folks were throttled with post-Civil War joy over a hundred years cuz they whistled at a white woman, and in all fifty states. Put that, or the African slave trade in context, and you’ll get a letter from the Southern Poverty Law Center, the one not set up to deal with Leftist hate groups, that’ll say you’re not helping the “dialogue” and what you say rises to the level of hate speech. That’s no surprise, because on the Left, reality itself is racist.
Typical white person, typical black person, typical woman, typical hispanic …
The Zero thinks everyone is just a stereotype, the sum of statistical “typical” of whatever group he classifies them into … in other words, everyone is typical … except him.
I won’t include here how I’d classify him. I hate being rude.
I think you could have gone with the top graphic. That seems to makes your point.
Personally, I think racism seems far worse within the black community than out of it. Blacks are the most racist group of people in America, by far. Moreover, there is a taught culture of black victim hood, dependency and irresponsibility. And their constant racism and violence is waved away – they’re black, they can’t help it. Their ancestors were victims ages ago, don’t you know?
On they go, destroying their own communities from the inside, and blaming whites, asians, mexicans, anyone at hand. And the liberals are working overtime to fan the flames of hatred in order to co-opt and use it for their own power and schemes. Traitorous and despicable really.
Mixed media, mixed message. The title makes it clear and the text should provide the facts and the video provides the emotion. I kind of like it, but don’t think many traditional readers will get very far with it. Especially those on slow connections. Maybe one day when black folks have the power, we will all have iPads and super high speed connections…