The gentle giant narrative is unfolding.
It be time to bust out popcorn when this all comes crashing down. Black people make up 13% of the pop, and the majority live in the south. And half of them live in 105 specific counties. To give an idea of the level of concentration, Florida has 67 counties, so you are talking a space the size of Florida and half of Georgia.
The majority of whites don’t ever interact with blacks. Their exposure is black panther, lebron, or some concocted media narrative and apply that understanding to the population as a whole. So there is this fantasy idea about who blacks people are or what their culture is really like.
I’m not suggesting who they are or their culture as being bad, that’s impossible in a country this size and a group of 40 million people to be homogenous. A black guy in Colquitt Georgia is not the same as a black guy in LA or a black guy in Wisconsin. Or even a black guy in Brooklyn has nothing to do with a black guy in the projects. That’s fucking normal, but that’s not how the media treats eat when they speak of all blacks being the same. Or have the audacity to pretend one black person speaks for them all.
What’s really bad though is the concocted gentle giants bullshit that keeps popping up. Floyd was a pornstar, ex-con drug addict that had held a woman at gun point, and was known to be violent with the cops.then you have this dumbass trying to stab some other girl in front of the cops. The narratives aren’t matching what everyone can see on social media and it’s going to create a backlash. And it’s going to create a backlash where because the media pushes universal narratives and groupings, and folks in general not regularly interacting with blacks, it’s going to create a situation where all blacks are associated with this trash. And that’s the real crime in all of this.
Now it may not be something that gen z does, they may be even bigger pussies than my millennial gen. But at some point the upcoming generations are going to see what sort of shit show we’ve become and have to pick up the pieces. I just hope it’s not in a negative way where they go the opposite extreme.