Do We Still Have a Right to Blame “The Man”?

July 6th, 2010 - By Danielle Kwateng

A friend of mine once met a Rastafarian black man that claimed the earthquake in Haiti was a man-made conspiracy to ruin the country. Yes, that’s how hard some of us go to blame “the man.”

If we actually checked the numbers we’d know that some things are getting better as the number of African-Americans in prison declined by 18,400 between 2000 and 2008. Some may be shocked to know that there are actually MORE black men in college (919,000) than in jail (827,680). And get this! There are more African-Americans in positions of political and financial power than ever before.

It’s not that there aren’t ills created by the Anglo-Saxon men in this society to retard our race from growing– because there are.

It was only ten years ago when an unarmed Guinean man, Amadou Diallo, was hit with 19 bullets when trying to pull out his wallet to show four white police officers in the Bronx. His case and many other legitimate cases, protests and wars have been fought against the injustices of white powerful men.

Any form of injustice tinges our very core and challenges the concept that “all men are created equal.” But in a so-called post-racial society it’s sometimes murky as to what white society can be blamed for and what not.

The ultimate question is: is the white man to blame for disparities in the black community or do we perpetuate our own issues and point fingers?

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  • Greg

    It doesn’t matter in my view–we don’t know how to blame him anyway…Our problems have gotten farther than simple blame of the white man…

  • Arnel

    Well, I mean to say that I rest my case for now.

  • Arnel

    Surely and with no doubt at all the white man is the culprit! I have traveled the world and his damage clearly evident. Yet, there's no rally against their nonsense throughout the Diaspora. Therefore the white man travels to impoverished countries throughout Africa, The Caribbean and South America taking full advantage of the poverty.

    This is done both on an economic level and social and mental. The social and mental levels are called "sex tourism." This is where whites still come to these countries to take advantage of the poverty of women, young woman, young men, and very small children. Whites do the most disgusting sexual acts imaginable to them for pennies on a dollar.

    It's a long and said story that shows that the cruelty of the white man will never die unless we stop honoring their ideologies and lifestyles and finally realize that the vast majority of them have no love or sense of fairness when it comes to people of color. And in most cases their self righteousness and first person attitudes doesn't allow them to really love anyone besides themselves. And they pass this on from generation to generation.

    I can write many books on this topic (as a matter of fact I have) and never actually touch the surface of white nonsense in America and throughout the Diaspora and the world.

    A huge part of the answer for freeing ourselves of the chains and shackles that have been taken off of our necks, wrists and feet and are now embedded on our minds is to find out the truths for ourselves. Stop believing their on sided views thru writings, television documentaries and any other forms of mass media. I've found that the best way to combat this is to take a trip home to our Mother-Africa to discover the truths, dispel rumors, gain a sense of pride, receive the love that out long lost relatives have for us and finally experience life without the racism and unfairness that we Africans in America have been made to accept as a part of living.

    We have such a beautiful home that it's ashamed that they've persuaded us to be the only homeless group of people. I say this because we idolize, accept and "Big-Up" places that whites brought us to for nothing but inequality, degradation, abuse, torture, rape, murder and of course free labor.

    I rest my case!

  • Frank Talk

    We'll stop "blaming the man" when he stops blaming, the Palestinians, Iranians, poor Blacks, Muslim extremists, N. Koreans, Nazis and dictatorial leading Afrikans for their wars and excuses to impoverish us.

    Everyone has a "card" of blame to exercise except the Black Race. All our problems are made to feel self-imposed, while everyone else has gotten Reparations, rich from warmongering smaller, weaker, Of Color lands, still pillaging Afrika's resources, and no one questions their blame cards?

    Until we're properly Reparated and Re-Segregated, the man who has to lie, cheat and connive to invade others' lands, and psychologically whorify and concubine their females, the man will always be on Thee Lord's Radar; and mine. These devilish and Anglo-Semitic extremists just want our females. Look how they used them during slavocracy's heyday, and more so, today.

  • Adjua Dubb

    while the blame and award for most racial suppresion does go to white folks, the award for hanging on to your oppressors coat tails goes to black ppl, and and as a result of us continuing to further integrate into a society that marginalizes us, only paralyzes our ability to get from under it. We been here since 1619 and still catching hell. I’m going back (forward) to where I came from.

  • Ayman

    Yes the white man is to blame; but we have to blame us too cause we can do it now.

    It's like in Africa we now that many western counties put down all these dictatorships but whos but our fears and cowardness let us "africans" in that situation, we have the choice to fight for democracy and they can't stop us.