When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong – United States of America Edition
By Inspectah Dreck
Some words from Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the most revered of our Founding Fathers:
Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance.
Some more words from Thomas Jefferson:
For men probably of any color, but of [black] we know, brought from their infancy without necessity for thought or forecast, are by their habits rendered as incapable as children of taking care of themselves, and are extinguished promptly wherever industry is necessary for raising young. In the mean time they are pests in society by their idleness, and the depredations to which this leads them. Their amalgamation with the other color produces a degradation to which no lover of his country, no lover of excellence in the human character can innocently consent.
America is in many ways an experiment. And, like any experiment, there are results. In the arena of race and reckoning with our history of oppression, we have failed this experiment. It should not take the Grand Jury decisions concerning the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner to see this. Twenty-five percent of whites do not think the justice system is biased against blacks; sixty-eight percent of blacks think it is biased. Where you come down on this likely derives from your racial identity, political views, and degree of cynicism. I'm not going to delve into the justice system tonight because I gotta be to my soul-deadening, meaningless job in six hours and would like to have enough energy to possibly sneak off and masturbate at work, but I do wanna touch on privilege.
I know some of my editors just groaned. I know some of the people reading this post rolled their eyes and are muttering things about social justice warriors and ethics in gaming journalism and whether being a white person is a "bad thing" and how Taylor Swift's new album is actually cool and good. Anyway, the refrain goes: I worked hard and my life was hard and I didn't get any breaks, so this whole privilege thing is overblown.
December 5, 2014 at 04:30AM
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