I Deduce that Candyman is Effectively Real and Rampaging

[Pat Mustard]

There are a lot of narratives around racism that compete for societal ubiquity.  I care about truth, not trendy narratives.

Lawz has mentioned a competing narrative that the woke world hates, and wants to beat down, but I see all narratives as propaganda.  Each one exaggerates their position compared to reality.

Some white people think "why can't Black people just walk the White path -- they will find White success".  The BLM people are "White people want to keep us down and put us in jail or kill us -- that's the only reason we aren't succeeding".

Both sides have some truth and some bullshit about them.

The problem is that the second point of view has a lot more truth to it. The first po8nt of view is only truthful in the US if you take an IngSoc definition of truth.

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Came upon this guy while watching  a Amanpour broadcast. Don't know if it fits in this discussion but thought I'd throw it in. 

McWhorter argues that certain strains of anti-racism and its adherents have effectively created a religion, and a zealous one, that stifles nuance and debate. His new book is called Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America.

There are people "whose devotion is less to changing lives for people who need help than showing that they understand that racism and especially systemic racism exists," McWhorter tells Morning Edition.

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/105265097...rs-on-race

McWhorter's views on racism wouldn't look out of place in Der Volkischer Beobachter or Der Schwarze Korps. Either he's one of the vanishingly few US blacks who's never had to endure racismand thus dismisses it or he's so insecure about his position he's adopted an Uncle Tom mentality.

If MLK Jnr adopted McWhorter's ideology the Civil Rights movement would have never got off the ground.