Garnet92 wrote another interesting post at thepeskytruth blog today called Acting Black in which he comments on the kneeling football players within a larger racial context:
“We’ve all heard of “acting white.” The term is used as a pejorative to insult a black student who is studying, attending classes, and otherwise trying to get an education. The term is used by black kids who don’t like being compared because the acting white kids make them look bad in comparison, so they’ll harass the students who are actually getting educated as a way to ridicule and intimidate them.
Relying on a pack mentality, they enlist as many cohorts as possible to isolate the targets of their derision and make that isolation uncomfortable. In truth, the black pack making the insults are those who are self-identifying themselves as acting black because they’re doing exactly the opposite of those that they’ve accused of acting white.
By banding together to encourage groupthink (or in this case, mobthink), they gain the power of numbers but demand adherence to the rules of the group, which means that none of the group can “act white.” That means that the acting black group must continue skipping classes, not studying, and generally doing things that are illegal or nonproductive – those actions are important to the mob to keep everyone aligned and so that none of them can be accused of acting white.
History tells us how this will turn out.
In a few years, the black kids who studied and attended classes will probably land good jobs and become successful, just like their white peers. Acting white will have paid off for those students who had the grit to continue their education even while being ridiculed by others trying to make them the butt of their insults.
And the participants in the mob that majored in acting black are far more likely to end up in menial jobs or in prison.
Now, based on what they learned in the schoolyard, this same technique is beginning to play out in our current NFL anthem saga.
Many NFL players have recently co-opted the kneel-in-protest action first started by Colin Kaepernick as a protest against a “country that oppresses black people, and people of color.” Kaepernick also wore socks depicting pigs dressed as police officers, stated his support for Black Lives Matter (BLM), and wore a Fidel Castro T-shirt, apparently to show support for the former brutal Dictator of Cuba… He was intentionally expressing his disdain for the country, the police, and by inference, white people, by choosing to act in a manner that was interpreted as unpatriotic by both those in attendance and those watching at home…
Even though Kaepernick is now out of football, some of his influence has remained. Each week a few more black players have been hopping aboard the Kaepernick Express and protested by kneeling, sitting, raising a fist, or other activity to raise awareness to their cause (ostensibly racial justice). They are intentionally doing what they know is displeasing to patriotic (mostly white) fans – they are acting black – in a mistaken belief that they are unlikely to suffer any consequences for their actions.
Black players believe that they have the protection of unanimity and are too valuable to discipline so, as long as they’re acting together, they’re invincible. From the perspective of the owners, that may be true, and perhaps even from the league, but they’re not invincible from the anger of the fans…
By now, it no longer matters to fans whether the protesting players are actually protesting against a country that supposedly oppresses them or against President Trump. Those protests have no place on the football field and the fans are in no mood to accept any other modification of a protest technique. The players have misjudged their immunity from condemnation and are (or will be) feeling the full weight of fandom as the owners begin to feel the economic impact of boycotting fans.
Isn’t it ironic that a group that started with so many cards supposedly stacked against them has been elevated to iconic personal levels and to an economic stratosphere that eludes 99% of the population?
If that’s oppression, I want me some of that.” – by Garnet92, who posted another closely related article today as well:
HOLLOW NFL PROTESTS IGNORE INCONVENIENT TRUTH
“While poorly educated athletes, egged on by leftist commentators, indulge in Black Lives Matter based protests against their country, evidence pours in that black-on-black crime is the real threat to black lives and that attacks on policing are causing an increase in such crime. Heather Mac Donald has the details.
She points out that nearly 900 additional blacks were killed in 2016 compared with 2015, bringing the black homicide-victim total to 7,881. That’s 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, even though blacks are only 13 percent of the nation’s population…
Who is killing these blacks? Not whites. According to Mac Donald, among all homicide suspects whose race was known, white killers of blacks numbered only 243.
Not the police. Mac Donald writes:
In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The Post categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as “unarmed.” That classification masks assaults against officers and violent resistance to arrest.
Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer. Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of officers—committed vastly and disproportionately by black males.
What accounts for the pronounced increase in the killing of blacks? MacDonald cites the Ferguson effect:
Cops are backing off of proactive policing in high-crime minority neighborhoods, and criminals are becoming emboldened. Having been told incessantly by politicians, the media, and Black Lives Matter activists that they are bigoted for getting out of their cars and questioning someone loitering on a known drug corner at 2 AM, many officers are instead just driving by.
Such stops are discretionary; cops don’t have to make them. And when political elites demonize the police for just such proactive policing, we shouldn’t be surprised when cops get the message and do less of it.
Seventy-two percent of the nation’s officers say that they and their colleagues are now less willing to stop and question suspicious persons, according to a Pew Research poll released in January. The reason is the persistent anti-cop climate.
We discussed the Ferguson effect here and here, for example. FiveThirtyEight, hardly a conservative outfit, has found support for the existence of this phenomenon.
These truths are inconvenient for black activists and their mindless followers. Too inconvenient to be spoken…
We’re not seeing them because they don’t serve the purpose of the black agitators who direct all energies against whites, and especially white police. Their agenda is to keep blacks deeply rooted in victimhood and antagonistic towards whites who they are told are the reason for all of the black troubles.
As long as black people rely on those black agitators and refuse to do at least a minimal amount of investigation, they’ll continue to vote for democrats, to be victims of their own ignorance, and be guilty of misplaced anger and resentment.
Garnet92.
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