What I mean is if you can say for the latino community I want to make 11 million dreamers citizens that's wonderful and of course there is going to be black folks and it is going be of myriad of folks in there benefited and then he says for LGBT community I wanna see that you gain benefits also wonderful, black folks are benefited as well but when it comes to the actual name-drop
I'm just looking for him to say black people, African Americans, niggas, I want to do this to help your communities out a direct reference I guess if that makes any sense, I don't disagree with your thinking but it just would be nice like how he said without the African American community I wouldn't be here to hear him and other politicians say we need to make sure we take care of <name-drop> (black communities).
Am I making sense?
You're making sense.......
But you are missing the point. You're focusing too much on the zig and not the zag.
What you're doing right now is called identity politics
Black people in America are already engrained into American society. American culture. American politics. Our problem is not that we aren't included. We already are.
We aren't fighting for citizenship. We already have it. That's why it's so weird to me when I see Black people saying "What about us" whenever theirs a conversation about other groups citizenship. Well for starters we already have that situation figured out. We're already citizens and viewed as American citizens. Majority of Latino's, Asians, Refugees, and even Native Americans are not.
And yes I know that there are millions of Black people who are fighting for citizenship. I am not discounting those Black people at all. It's just that in the grand scheme of things, citizenship is not at the top of the to do list for Black people. It is at the very top of the to do list very every other non white group though. Like it's issue number one for them. It is not issue number 1,2,3,4 or 5 for us. It just isn't.
The fight to be viewed as an American citizen is not a primary fight for Black America so why do some Black people always open their mouths and complain when other groups who are literally fighting for their citizenship see progress towards making that happen for them? Other groups fighting for citizenship doesn't make any of our issues less important. they're just different issues.
Now as far as the specifics that you are looking for as far as Black people are concerned, well take a look at them. None of them are specific to us so why would anybody package them as being specific to us? This would be like getting upset about groups pushing for women's healthcare rights and you're a man. If you're not a woman why are you upset about what they are asking for? It's not your place to be dissatisfied about a specific issue that only effects a specific subset of people like women, kids, people of another race, etc.
The thing that you're missing with Black tangibles, issues, agendas, or whatever you want to call them is outside of reparations, none of those issues are at their core, specific to Black people. So why would we try and make them specific to Black people? We have to acknowledge that the majority of what Black people are asking for we already have and it already benefits other groups. What we're really asking for is to just be treated better and more fairly. We're not asking to play by a different set of rules. Nobody other than white people play by different rules. that's the point.
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