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>they fuckking outright hunting us > >yeah i know its lowkey always been that way but why does this >feel different, even tho its not?
We've never been this far from slavery and Jim Crow, so every second it's different in that regard. Furthermore, we've seen pockets of what we thought was progress. Civil Rights Movement in the 60s, we swore we were making progress. Again in the 80 and early 90s, I remember all the public conversations being had even on daytime tv, folks thought we were "having the conversation" and moving things foward. At the end of slavery in the 1800s, we thought great things were coming. But here we are in 2022, still dealing with public execution with not even an anti-hate protection bill passed while Asians and Jews have gotten protections.
The main way this is different imo is the refinement of it all. They used to wear hoods and burn a cross in your yard. Now they've had the first "black" president, created a bunch of singular Black millionaires in entertainment etc, so society is convinced Black people just fail ourselves. In so many ways, they destroy us in plain sight, and it's never been this systematic/systemic. It's just on complete autopilot, so much that Black people THEMSELVES don't even realize it's happening... like slowly boiling a frog. Black people have both been lulled to sleep and duped into participating in their own demise. It's taken the white collective over a century to master this particular system. That's what's new imo. Not the racism itself but the way it's been streamlined at this point.
My thoughts/feelings? Yall know me. I'm not surprised. Been saying it was coming to this for years if Black folks didn't wake up FAST. I'm not built to be silent, but I don't expect my words to resonate now. The sleep is too deep for most Black people and they do not want to wake up. It's frustrating honestly. After putting so much of my life on hold to research, study, dig and understand it all, the hardest part is that negros would rather speculate than deal with empirical evidence. They've done a helluva job on us. It's going to get worse.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Days like this I miss Sha Mecca
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