servodude wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:FTFY. Purely speculatively, of course. The original statement seems pretty pure-bred racist, attributing attitudes to people based purely on skin colour.
I think, as the quote from Donald Glover points out in the article I linked, that THAT is precisely what happened when they (variously sourced African people) were enslaved, shipped off and treated as a homogeneous underclass of human for quite a long time in some parts of the world. He's probably got a better understanding of it than I do.
I'm not surprised they might find a common sense of self.
Except of course that most Africans were never enslaved, shipped off etc. If I were a black African and some well-meaning white person characterised and patronised me that way, I might feel less than impressed.
And even if my number one ideological imperative was expressing sympathy and support for one particular race over others, I might try and find something more meaningful and impactful to hang my hat on than the petty linguistic token gesture of spelling the word "blacks" with a capital "B". Is that really the hill any advocate of rights for blacks wants to die on?