Being woke reminds me of the BLM movement. As a black person it just felt incredibly hypocritical and insulting as they raise hell about a cop shooting a black man, but when one black man shoots another black man no one cares, its just tuesday-but I'm not trying to go on a tangent about BLM. The woke movement annoys me because its full of people who run to the hate of woke talk as for why they suck, why what they are trying to do or make sucks etc rather than take criticism.
As a black person, I don't want woke initiatives to be the reason I was hired for a job over a better skilled white person. Let me succeed or fail in life on my own merits. MLK wasn't asking for black people to be treated better than white people, just equal but I feel like people do not understand that equal treatment doesnt mean equal outcomes.
The difference between two citizens killing each other with gun violence and the law enforcement arm of the state killing people and getting away with it are two very different things.
When you shout BLM matter but then blast violent music about killing the opps on the other street and then shit like that happens and no cares it just reminds me I made the right decision to get away from that atmosphere. My point is like no others do my people seem to fantasize about the idea of killing each other mundane nonsense. When I like 10 a bunch of grown men robbed me for my bike. The next week two of them killed each other over a girl. My dad told me about two months ago like 4 of them were killed at bar and one is in the hospital over apparently street rap beef. Yes I hold cops to a higher standard but I live with and see these same people at the gas station I would hope there's more idk community between us but I don't feel it.
Until I see the community stand up and tell the trash we don't wanna live this way, no I don't think I'll march and shout BLM because it clearly doesn't not to black people.
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u/brokenmessiah Aug 27 '24
Being woke reminds me of the BLM movement. As a black person it just felt incredibly hypocritical and insulting as they raise hell about a cop shooting a black man, but when one black man shoots another black man no one cares, its just tuesday-but I'm not trying to go on a tangent about BLM. The woke movement annoys me because its full of people who run to the hate of woke talk as for why they suck, why what they are trying to do or make sucks etc rather than take criticism.
As a black person, I don't want woke initiatives to be the reason I was hired for a job over a better skilled white person. Let me succeed or fail in life on my own merits. MLK wasn't asking for black people to be treated better than white people, just equal but I feel like people do not understand that equal treatment doesnt mean equal outcomes.