Check Your Black Privilege

An off-the-cuff twitter rant in response to a black race grifter

Sometimes these twitter spats are ridiculous. And even when you’re making a valid point that is absolutely true and needs to be considered by more people, how much good is your little tweet going to really do? But sometimes, someone just catches you at the right moment and says something so absurd and intellectually lazy or dishonest that you just lose your shit and unload on them with both barrels.

Granted, such a response is usually unproductive, given how few the number of people are who will actually see it — and the even tinier number who may see it and reconsider their beliefs about the issue as a result — and even more than that, the vanishingly small, practically to the point of being nonexistent, number of people who will see it and reconsider their beliefs on the issue, and who will also happen to have a large enough influence to be able to change the world, at least as it pertains to the issue at hand.

But sometimes, you just have to get it off your chest. And as a white man¹ (also part Neanda) in America in 2023 — who gets to hear all the time about how privileged I am, and how oppressed everyone else is, and how dare I, and all that other nonsense — I got some things to get off my chest.

Here’s the specific Tweet I was responding to:

And here is the larger thread² about black privilege of which this reply was a part, headed by an original post from the Stonetoss cartoonist [I must say, the cartoon says it perfectly]:

And here’s my response below:

Who is "they"? Nobody alive today was ever owned as property, and if they were, it wasn't in this country. (But did you know that slavery still is practiced openly today in a place called Africa?) And the black folks furthest removed from de jure segregation (black teenagers and young adults today) are the most perpetually aggrieved about how racist everything supposedly is. And the professional race activists and the groups they run are major reasons for that -- rather than taking equality of opportunity and equality before the Law as their goals, they demand absolute equality of outcome, excuse antiwhite violence and justify discrimination against whites, and provide cover for black supremacists calling for vengeance and even genocide against whites. These race grifters have overreached badly, yet they continue pushing even further. They will cheerfully tip this country into full-on civil war at the rate they are going, just to make a fast buck. And when the backlash comes -- and believe me, it is coming -- few of them will acknowledge their own role in causing it.

And as for being "property," slavery was practiced on every continent by every race, yet whites are supposedly uniquely guilty of it. Meanwhile, Europeans were the ones who abolished slavery in the regions they governed, yet whites are given no credit for that. Africans sold their fellow Africans to the Europeans and to the Arabs, but black Americans hold Africans and even Arabs in high esteem while denigrating the European civilization that liberated them. And if you want to hear about black people being really treated savagely, go learn about the Arab slave trade. But for some reason, when we hear about racist colonizers and slave masters, it's only the white man who gets so characterized, never the Africans or Arabs who also practiced slavery and who took longer to end it (some have still not ended it).

Today's whites have nothing to atone or apologize for -- if anything, we should take pride in our ancestors being the only race to voluntarily end the practice of slavery -- but instead we get endlessly lectured for our supposed evil history and the supposed privileges we enjoy, and we are told that we need to keep atoning and apologizing for our race's supposed sins until the end of time. Meanwhile, whites are actively disadvantaged³ when applying to university or applying for jobs and grants, and even though blacks commit nine times the amount of interracial violent crimes against whites as whites do against blacks⁴, we are told that we are the violent racists and the domestic terror threat. We "say their names" for George Floyd⁵ and Brianna Taylor, but not for Tony Timpa or Duncan Lemp, even though there are *more* Tony Timpas and Duncan Lemps than there are George Floyds and Brianna Taylors. So in America in 2023, whites are not the ones who need to "check our privilege." However, blacks are long overdue for checking theirs.

None of this is to deny that specific groups of white people have benefited from wrongs done to groups of black people in specific times and places, but 2023 America is neither one of those times nor one of those places. And if you think it is, you need to get out of your echo chamber, because the mainstream media and public officials are lying to you, and you are believing those lies because they confirm the narrative with which you identify. And that right there is a form of privilege that blacks now enjoy that whites do not: being able to be blissfully ignorant of your black privilege.

Whites have been "unpacking the invisible knapsack"⁶ of privilege for so long, it's completely empty. No privileges remain for just being white. Yet still we get shouted at daily: "Keep unpacking! There's more privileges in there! Confess it already and accept your penance!" Meanwhile, the "invisible knapsack" of black privilege is so full its overflowing.

1. If you are a white man who wants to practice identity politics and get in touch with your Neanderthal heritage, check out this handy guide on how to do that below:

2. You can view the entire thread on Twitter «here».

3.

John Carter

has some excellent essays on the subject of whites being actively disadvantaged by the regime and practically every major institutions in the West:

The War Waged by Wokes on White Wagies, Redux

and

If No One’s Hiring White Guys, What Are They Doing With Themselves?

4. This post has more on the topic of black crime, with links to additional sources:

5. Speaking of St. George Floyd, if you have not already seen The Fall of Minneapolis, you really should — the truth is not what you’ve been told! — and you can see it for free on Rumble at https://rumble.com/v3vyvzv-the-fall-of-minneapolis.html

6. This quote refers to the seminal 1990 essay by Peggy McIntosh and Caitlyn Cleveland, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.