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I came across today a movie trailer today which is/was The American Society of Magical Negroes. It really showed me how much the elite black class is grifting. The story apparently revolves around black people using magical powers to keep white people from chimping out and attacking black people. I'm not going to sit here and say black don't have grievances in America and against whites, but I don't think this whole type of thinking helps blacks. It makes it clear to me (and many other instances obviously) that the black elite and black academics define themselves against whiteness. Like they can't imagine blackness without white people in America. An America with no racism against blacks isn't possible to them, and the DEI and all that kind of stuff is necessary to keep them safe. This leaves many kinds of positions for more or less grifting that are basically only open to blacks and leave them a position to cry about racism and also benefit from it handsomely in terms of salary.
Working in Silicon Valley has given me the opportunity to work with a bunch of Nigerians that make insane salaries and live luxurious lifestyles. One thing I've noticed from them is that they don't think about the black/white distinction the same way. At my current company, the director of security is a Nigerian and half of the staff is Nigerian. Obviously they are hiring their own ethnics at a preferable rate, but I haven't seen one of them be part of the "Black at XYZ Company" groups or really care about that. They actually seem to be pretty happy with the current state of affairs in the US an have integrated pretty well.
I'm going to sound like a boomer conservative here, but it seems to me black elites in America seem obsessed with keeping the race divide front and center and their bloated salaries are a direct benefit to them. I don't think that black performance or lack thereof has anything to do with racism. I've never met a single normie person that is anti-black and hates them. I myself am pretty racist and HBD minded and I don't hate blacks at all. I find ghetto criminal blacks to be a nuisance and I don't like that, but even I would have to admit the vast majority of blacks are just normal people who want to live their lives and be happy. When I lived in Chicago, other than a few really unsafe areas I didn't mind walking around majority black neighborhoods.
It seems to me that there is an elite black class that was raised on the Civil Rights movement that can't move on. Their world view of racism is hopelessly outdated and most people would be fine hiring blacks and living near them. However, as currently constructed there is an elite black class that wants the status quo because they benefit from it Being a civil rights activist and a socila justice advocate is beneficial for these people instead of telling blacks they can succeed or fail on their own merits and to just be normal Americans.
This might all be true, but it smacks of blaming cartels for smuggling drugs into the U.S. Sure, they are the ones literally bringing it over the border, but they don't do it because smuggling is an exciting challenge, or because they want to spread the Gospel of Heroine, they do it because there are a lot of American citizens who really, really like to snort coke and smoke meth. So it is with the black grifter class. If white Americans ignored them, they'd have close to zero power. But high-status white Americans are dying to hear about the latest totally real hate crime or revisionist history or whatever masochist nonsense, so the black grifters are just supplying where there's demand.
Even worse, there's also a PMC-elite white class who not only was born too late to get covered in the glory of the Civil Rights movement, but who also was born with the original sin of Whiteness for which there is no final atonement or forgiveness. And unlike the black elite, this is the class that controls our institutions.
Right, as soon as the black mascots they hire start saying the wrong things, they're immediately oatracized. Their blackness is worth nothing unless they are telling white liberals what white liberals want to hear. Their power is largely illusory and dependent on the supremacy of liberal whites.
Do you have any evidence to support this claim? Can you name me some examples of black DEI hires/commissars who “started saying the wrong things” and were ostracized for doing so? What is it that “white liberals want to hear” against which specific progressive black activists have transgressed? And what were the penalties for doing so?
This case comes to mind:
Compact Magazine: A Black DEI Director Canceled by DEI
Of course, most of the time people who disagree with core SJW tenets don't get hired for DEI positions in the first place. This case is unusual not in that they demanded ideological homogeneity, but in that they didn't demand it as part of the original hiring process. Plenty of academic institutions now require diversity statements from prospective hires for any position, let alone positions related to DEI, statements evaluated in a way that would probably exclude someone like her if she was open about her beliefs.
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