With all due respect, I’ve never denied that we are judged as a collective. I see it a lot. I get it. However, we are not a monolith. We do don’t have a hive mind. We are not all the same. It’s the truth we need to tell ourselves. It’s the truth I keep telling myself all the time.

I know telling that to white people is hit-and-miss situation. They prefer to see us as one fucked up group. They chose to do so, and since some whites that do have power, living in this world turns into a game of survival.

The point I was making is to not allow their thinking to become our thinking. Continue to fight against it as much as possible. And to start, you must know that I, for instance, am not the same as the drug dealers, robbers, murderers, etc. the news reports, and they do not represent the whole group.

I knew this article would cause some flack, but I still spoke from the heart and experience.

“It’s hardly any secret that being black in any white racist society is complicated. Sometimes it can be a hazard. The world around you sees how awful you are first, and your humanity last, if it chooses to see your humanity. It will not hesitate to exploit your problems to prove how loathsome you are as a people.”

yes yes yes

So what is the difference? I’ll tell you the difference. If a black man does the same thing that a white man does his sentence usually is harsher than a white man’s. He is usually shown on television. If its a drug offense his prison time will be years harsher than his white peers. Black men are more likely to be put on death row than white men for the same crimes. Now why is that Miss I Know All About Black People?

For years white people have covered up their own crimes by blaming Big Black Men. Stuart in Boston, Smith in the Carolina, the Todd woman from the McCain campaign, that insane woman who stole money from a school and said black men kidnapped her and her daughter—she was at Disney with the kid. On and on. And the police have dragged through black communities destroying people’s rights looking for imaginary BBM.

And don’t give me shit about how all the white people have tried to lift black people up. This isn’t the effing 60s and you don’t know what you are talking about. You see what you see. And you choose to see are all black men as criminals. So who is racist and a bit stupid?

I come from a family full of hardworking black men–who love themselves. Criminality is due to poverty, drugs and mental health issues. And there is a whole lot of it in the black and white community. The only difference—black males are punished harsher, publicly vilified more and used as a device for people like you to squawk like idiots.

The only reason by kids know about Afro-Canadians and our contributions is because I did the research and taught them. White Canadians even believe that slavery didn’t happen in Canada – which is absolutely wrong of course. The very first African slave was in Quebec. There is a culture of silence that is absolutely damming and impossible to break. Sure we have Black history month but at my kids school they celebrated and I shit you not “Africa day.”

This is the culture that Black Canadians exist in today. It is difficult in large part because everyone wants to tell us to be thankful that we are not Americans and how good we have it, even as we deal with the same amount of racist bullshit and absolute erasure from History. I am a woman but I know exactly where this man is coming from. It’s not accident that no Canadian paper would publish this. Canada is in complete denial about its racial problems because it spends too much time getting self righteous and might about not being like Americans. It’s a complete falsehood of course but that is how things work.

I see you have a reputation for leaving behind disparaging and willfully ignorant remarks on certain articles. And I see many people who strongly disagree with your..ahem…thinking.

You’re pretty much saying that this young men and black people should feel bad for themselves and think less of themselves because of your people’s hive mind mentality and obsession of proving black people are violent and criminal because they’re black. I would express my disgust, but I’m close to being numb to these kinds of comments by soulless, heartless trolls who hate black people but will invade our space nonetheless. Whatever reason you have of doing this, I’m sure I heard it before, and I’m sure I could care less.

Yes. I call you soulless and heartless because no one with fully-functional morals would excuse the self-hatred of any group, and no sensible or logical person would resort to the old “black crime” argument as an excuse to continue their trolling.

What’s the matter? Did you have a terrible childhood? Were you attacked by blacks? Do you have anything going for you today? Or do you just hate and troll because it’s fun?

I could’ve responded to you with more respect, but you see, I’m a black man, and I know you don’t want me to respect you because black people are racist against whites, right? Instead, I’m responding to you in a way that a knockle-dragging, sloping foreheaded human being can comprehend. Although, I guess I could’ve used smaller, one-syllable words. LOL

You see, Katherine, if that’s your real name, you really humoring others when you leave your crap behind to stink up articles and blogs. We laugh at you because your responses are backward, ignorant and just plain wrong. Then again, you like that kind of attention. That must be the only kind of attention you’re getting. So, you turn to racist cyberbullying to warm your cold heart.

In short, let me say this in a language I’m sure you can understand; Unga bunga. You bad. Get lost.

Then again, you’ve already disappeared until the next post is published that you will express your hate. lol