“So, we’re just a bunch of white people?”
TruthRevolt- I am a big Seinfeld fan. The show has been off the air for 17 years now except in reruns, but Seinfeld comes to the forefront of my mind once again when I read about the presumed black President of the Seattle, Washington NAACP who was actually white, and then when another exposé revealed that #BlackLivesMatter activist Shaun King is also white.
Wow, whatever happened to “Once you go black, you don’t go back”? I guess it doesn’t work when you were never black in the first place.
In one of my favorite episodes from the show, “The Wizard,” one of the plot threads focused on another of Elaine’s many boyfriends. This boyfriend, Darrell, is light-skinned but looks black – or so Jerry thinks. Elaine does a double-take at this, questioning whether Darrell is indeed black. MORE
Nice article…but: it bugs the hell out of me whenever I hear this “excuse-making” that comes off to me as revolting as Leftist hand-wringing. What do I mean? From Ben Shapiro’s own mouth:
“his does not deny the horrific and evil history of racism against black people in America. It also does not deny the fact that a disproportionate number of black people live in poverty and suffer as victims of crime (primarily from other black people, just as white people suffer crime primarily from other white people).”
This, to me, is just more “…becaise…slavery!” crapola. Yesterday had problems. America fixed that.
Today has its own problems, and one is – whatever you wish to call it – Black Privilege/Affirmative Action. THAT needs to be fixed, and dredging up problems of the past long-since-fixed and dragging them around like a white-guilt-albatross ain’t helping one damned bit.
So, time to put TODAY’S problem in the trash bin of history. We’re Americans. We are up to the challenge and we can do it.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence
Classic.
bingo. Highly skilled individuals.
You have some abilities, you have had some accomplishments, but you doubt yourself and know (because you were always told) there’s always someone smarter than you out there.
So, you aren’t an arrogant prick so you always think the best of other people and assume that most people are just as smart or smarter than you, unless and until they prove otherwise.
The problem is, most of the time, you have every bit as much skill as anyone else around you, and quite often, more. More experience, more skills, more intuitive ability, better educated guesses.
Self confidence is key.
We doesn’t include them.
Them is those who profit from today’s problems.
And they run the broad gamut from Sharpton & Mooch to Fauxahontas & Joe “Put ya’ll in chains” Biden.
Maybe we should all take on black identities and reap the benefits. Most of all the benefit of seeing some of their heads explode.