So what do you think of a black man who Claims he is NOT oppressed? Is Derrick Wilburn a "tool" of the white man?

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Derrick Wilburn, District49 School Board meeting, 8.12.2021 - YouTube

Lliam · Accepted Answer

I agree with most of what he said.
Victim mentality and acting like a victim makes one a victim. It's weak.

I am reminded of my first guitar teacher. He was an engineer where my dad was a lead machinist for an large aerospace corporation. At the height of the racial civil unrest and Watts riots of 1965, he came to our lily white neighborhood to give me lessons.
It turned out that he was a tall, slender black man with a goatee. He wasn't just a guitarist but a flamenco master. He had traveled to Spain several times to study. I'm sure he could play jazz like a fiend, too.
That warm, kind, soft spoken man was more educated, worldly and sophisticated than my parents.
I had never met a black man before, but I wound up admiring him greatly. I never thought of black people as inferior since. I reject all forms of bigotry, thanks to him.
He grew up during segregation, yet didn't let that hold him back. He was a rocket engineer! He didn't act like he carried any bitterness or grudges. He was a man.
I still consider him an emissary, a role model, and hero.

Things have changed greatly since 1965. Racism has been legally abolished. Black entertainers are ubiquitous on TV, in film and music. Mixed marriages are common.

So why don't people celebrate the progress that has been made and continue to work for more progress, instead of acting like slavery and segregation still exist? Instead of treating each other as human beings, why is racism toward white people being promoted with mottoes like "Be less white"? How is it helpful to teach children that all white people are racist or that they should feel guilty for being "white" (whatever that is). How does it help either whites or backs to make them believe that whites are privileged?

I am 100% in favor of calling attention to areas that still need to be addressed. I don't think Kaepernick was wrong for calling out police violence any more that it was wrong for Muhammad Ali to speak about racism and refuse the draft, or for Tommie Smith and John Carlos to raise their fists during the National Anthem at the 1968 Olympics.

I believe in free speech and the right to peacefully protest. I was in full support of the civil rights movement and still am. But I'm not in favor of stirring up racism, which is what I think BLM and Critical Race Theory are doing. I'm in favor of uniting as human beings against those few who would enslave us all.

History in schools was always Anglocentric, jingoistic, shallow and often false, teaching, for example, that Indians were savages and the defenders of the Alamo were heroes.

History is complex and nuanced. The founding fathers of this country did great things and also bad things. Slavery was not the reason for the civil war. The southern states were not traitors to this country. Lincoln wasn't all good and Robert E. Lee wasn't all bad. Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Eisenhower, JFK and LBJ did good and bad things. People are people, and they are also a product of their times.
I'm in favor of teaching real history.
I'm not in favor of Critical Race Theory or the 1619 project because those ideas are as biased as the traditional history that was taught.

And speaking of history, maybe we should also learn about neoliberalism and American imperialism.

crmoore · Accepted Answer

Probably not. He's probably just a free thinker who doesn't scapegoat.

KimmyKimmy · Accepted Answer

Kudos to you for asking such a great question.

1. Did you notice that asshole in the pink shirt that wouldn't stand? What a tool of the left.

2. 90% of the racism against blacks, is coming from white libtards that hate blacks and just use them as tools to get what they want.

3. I hope the mods or admin elevate this to a featured question, because people need to know that racism is coming from the "woke."

Uannoyme · Accepted Answer

If he doesn't feel that he's oppressed, who am I to say he is? He knows his own experience better than anyone.

rcljr · Answer

Nobody in this country is oppressed except the heterosexual white Christian conservative male. Blacks want you to believe they are oppressed so they can cash in on reparations, fact is they aren’t. We have laws in this country and when a segment of our society chooses to break those laws on a daily basis and they get caught, they scream racism, profiling, oppression, when in reality it’s simple mathematics… if 14% of the population is committing 80% of the crime, it’s pretty fucking obvious.

RolandCuthbert · Answer

Since this is the nonsensical way you debate. Listen to speech that is an hour and a half long by a "White" guy talking about colorblindness. We can swap youtube videos all day. And you know. . . not watch any of them.

FinalFantasyBro · Answer

If he doesn't feel oppressed than liberals shouldn't try to help out an issue that doesn't exist to him. As another black male I can list things I don't feel oppressed about but some liberals considered me as oppressed for no reason.

_Troian_ · Answer

I don't think blacks are oppressed anymore.. its 21 cc and people like to moan about everything.

joeldalton · Answer

Clearly, he needs a white liberal to educate him that he truly is repressed.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Yeah I'm sure that is what the left will make him out to be.

Anonymous · Answer

race doesn't exist. Science and history proved it already

NightHawk99 · Answer

Ahhh yes. "Is Eminem a guest in the house of hip hop", just with different roles and a different choice of words.

disgustingweebtrash · Answer

They created race tensions so you wouldn't see them taking the money out of your pockets, the true enemy is the 1% and the people above them. You're all retarded for falling for it.

Anonymous · Answer

He made a great speech. So is it common for black men to vocalise their oppression, or is it activists on behalf of the black community?

backblueblack22 · Answer

Maybe he just has more common sense than other people.

jimmy2 · Answer

Well it would have been nice if you supplied the link

OddBeMe · Answer

I’d say great. But he’s not the average.

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