Man I love the Black Youth Project! SOOOOO MUCH GOODNESS in this article.... "In short, Malco reiterates a conversation we’ve all heard before at the dinner table. It is often launched at Black youth in particular. Mistakenly, it’s a position even I used to believe. Namely this idea that instead of hollering racism, it’s up to Black people to get ourselves together. It’s essentially Black on Black shaming, and it’s not necessarily “wrong,” it’s just intellectually lazy, relies on myths of Black deficiency, and ignores the necessary context of how racism has operated and continues to operate in this country. Racism is real. It is not some fictitious scapegoat that Black people rely on for the sake of argument. Black on Black shaming ignores the facts of how corporations, the government, and other institutions continually create and sustain policies that harm Black communities. Now this does not mean we are hopeless victims, there are many opportunities and means by which Black people can still achieve success and uplift each other. We do not have the luxury of making excuses. But what we also can’t do is act like our communities are only struggling because we’re just a bunch of lazy, good for nothing, twerkin, molly-poppin, gangbangin, weed-smokin, ignorance-lovin, ne’er do wells."
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:19:09 +0000
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