But also I had a mentor once who as a statistician. She straight told me she’d bring her folks the numbers, and they would force her hand to fudge them. You gotta play the game. So medical coroners being part of an old-guard institution riddled with racism, of course they would play the game. People wanna eat, right? People wanna do the job they went to school for, and get those bennies. There’s long since been stereotypes of aggressive and overtly strong black men who cannot “handle” themselves. Look at To Kill a Mockbird, or Emmett Till, but it’s been going on long since before that. Armchair anthropologist were tearing up “savage” brains with their xenophobic hot-takes on cultures they never even experienced through written observations that came pre-biased.
If anything, a huge amount of Americans who are seen as “problems” to society overall (and I am talking of any color) tend to be so due to some variety of scarcities imposed by capitalism. The solution? Hell if I know, because I am just one human. But I can tell you if your brain can’t tell the difference between a video and reality - you get sucked in when it comes to media. If you are around and the only jobs around are the ones you’ve gotta travel for - and nobody but nobody is eating real food or getting a solid education - you’re gunna be fucked. I recently watched a Channel 5 posting on the Trump assassination attempt on here. I was shocked when I saw it because I realized that so many of those people don’t even realize why they’re so frustrated. Because they lack the education and experience that they don’t even know that they got got. I’d say the same thing in a lot of minority communities. I’d go hiking, and literally everyone I knew who was a poc - would straight up tell me that I was going to die. Or that they’ll stick to sidewalks. People don’t even realize that there’s a whole world out here they could be exploring, and instead just stick to the same x-blocks and spaces they always knew. Or like, I legitimately had no clue how good some people got it - until I moved and saw that some people live their lives in bliss and madly most don’t even notice that anyone in this world could be suffering because they are living their best lives.
And don’t even get me started on what you could learn in school. Because it’s like night and day. A black education, versus a white one. And I know, because I’ve now been through both. But you could say this, yet again - about any space of education not considered worthy of funds. And education is hands down the easiest way to understand the social norms of “money” and get some yourself. Which will never put you on equal grounds with those who had a head start, but it sure as hey can give you more cushion between that and the world where a cop shoots you dead for existing and covers it up.
Hooph! That was one big rant. I’m off but I suppose I will say books like this are needed and beautiful and I love every moment of their existence. More poc voices in academic literature - more feminine voices in academic literature - I invite it all. Only catch is I had to stop reading stuff like this, because it was making me want to punch walls - and you just can’t go through life like that. But in a perfect world, I would be snapping my fingers and changing all that hurt that has been layered bit by bit through ignorance or otherwise and get things so that people didn’t have to be constantly living juggling the have-nots while the haves had no idea that it was even happening in their country.
p.s. - Money will help get you away from the cops - but you can still end up getting harassed by them for DWB (driving while black) or BWB (Breathing while black). And you can see that with celebrities. Neil deGrasse Tyson talked about he has been harassed multiple times. I’m no fan of Cosby or OJ - but I bet you there have been a handful of white folks who’ve been dirty too and probably never saw any of the justice the hammer and pony show layed down on these two. (Mind you fuck all of them)
Also when I was growing up one of my folks had to commute two hours both ways just to get a job. They’d take me so they could watch over me because I was still pretty young. A black celebrity was incarcerated along the way, and my folk made a point of letting me know. I never stopped thinking about it because it seemed so damn sad to me. I even, as a little bubblin - would wave hi at the place and hope they “got well soon.” So I think if you really think about it - and there are layers to this story too (the OJ one) - that’s why white folk couldn’t believe he got off and black folks celebrated. Because you know in this corrupt world all sorts are getting away with all kinds of things, but if you get a key to the kingdom - you better stay in line - because the second you get out - the floor will fall out underneath you.
cont.
But also I had a mentor once who as a statistician. She straight told me she’d bring her folks the numbers, and they would force her hand to fudge them. You gotta play the game. So medical coroners being part of an old-guard institution riddled with racism, of course they would play the game. People wanna eat, right? People wanna do the job they went to school for, and get those bennies. There’s long since been stereotypes of aggressive and overtly strong black men who cannot “handle” themselves. Look at To Kill a Mockbird, or Emmett Till, but it’s been going on long since before that. Armchair anthropologist were tearing up “savage” brains with their xenophobic hot-takes on cultures they never even experienced through written observations that came pre-biased.
If anything, a huge amount of Americans who are seen as “problems” to society overall (and I am talking of any color) tend to be so due to some variety of scarcities imposed by capitalism. The solution? Hell if I know, because I am just one human. But I can tell you if your brain can’t tell the difference between a video and reality - you get sucked in when it comes to media. If you are around and the only jobs around are the ones you’ve gotta travel for - and nobody but nobody is eating real food or getting a solid education - you’re gunna be fucked. I recently watched a Channel 5 posting on the Trump assassination attempt on here. I was shocked when I saw it because I realized that so many of those people don’t even realize why they’re so frustrated. Because they lack the education and experience that they don’t even know that they got got. I’d say the same thing in a lot of minority communities. I’d go hiking, and literally everyone I knew who was a poc - would straight up tell me that I was going to die. Or that they’ll stick to sidewalks. People don’t even realize that there’s a whole world out here they could be exploring, and instead just stick to the same x-blocks and spaces they always knew. Or like, I legitimately had no clue how good some people got it - until I moved and saw that some people live their lives in bliss and madly most don’t even notice that anyone in this world could be suffering because they are living their best lives.
And don’t even get me started on what you could learn in school. Because it’s like night and day. A black education, versus a white one. And I know, because I’ve now been through both. But you could say this, yet again - about any space of education not considered worthy of funds. And education is hands down the easiest way to understand the social norms of “money” and get some yourself. Which will never put you on equal grounds with those who had a head start, but it sure as hey can give you more cushion between that and the world where a cop shoots you dead for existing and covers it up.
Hooph! That was one big rant. I’m off but I suppose I will say books like this are needed and beautiful and I love every moment of their existence. More poc voices in academic literature - more feminine voices in academic literature - I invite it all. Only catch is I had to stop reading stuff like this, because it was making me want to punch walls - and you just can’t go through life like that. But in a perfect world, I would be snapping my fingers and changing all that hurt that has been layered bit by bit through ignorance or otherwise and get things so that people didn’t have to be constantly living juggling the have-nots while the haves had no idea that it was even happening in their country.
p.s. - Money will help get you away from the cops - but you can still end up getting harassed by them for DWB (driving while black) or BWB (Breathing while black). And you can see that with celebrities. Neil deGrasse Tyson talked about he has been harassed multiple times. I’m no fan of Cosby or OJ - but I bet you there have been a handful of white folks who’ve been dirty too and probably never saw any of the justice the hammer and pony show layed down on these two. (Mind you fuck all of them)
Also when I was growing up one of my folks had to commute two hours both ways just to get a job. They’d take me so they could watch over me because I was still pretty young. A black celebrity was incarcerated along the way, and my folk made a point of letting me know. I never stopped thinking about it because it seemed so damn sad to me. I even, as a little bubblin - would wave hi at the place and hope they “got well soon.” So I think if you really think about it - and there are layers to this story too (the OJ one) - that’s why white folk couldn’t believe he got off and black folks celebrated. Because you know in this corrupt world all sorts are getting away with all kinds of things, but if you get a key to the kingdom - you better stay in line - because the second you get out - the floor will fall out underneath you.