This was an actual article published at CNN, not at The Grio
Opinion: Sometimes the Only Way to Resist is to Leave
This is the opening paragraph from Kellie Carter Jackson: "In the Black experience, leaving is one of the most common forms of resistance to White Supremacy. Where are we going? To Canada? Ghana? The Caribbean? Or a newfound favorite: Portugal.
The underlying question: Where can Black people live freely?"
The correct answer is: The United States. But the far-left keeps painting the picture that we are still living in 1850. KCJ argues that there are places that she feels uncomfortable going to in the United States. I agree. There's places in the United States I'm not comfortable going to either, and I'm White.
You see that map above? That's from the website HeyJackass! You see the Chicago neighborhoods in Red? I wouldn't be comfortable going to those areas. What do those neighborhoods have in common? Of course I can't say, you have to figure it out on your own.
We have been over this before. America is not the perfect place, but if you work hard, and don't do drugs, you have a better chance of getting ahead here than in most other nations, no matter what your ethnicity. I don't believe that America is a beacon for white supremacists, but let's say I'm wrong.
Okay Black Americans, here's the list of countries that are predominantly Black, while having a WalMart or McDonald's on every street corner.
Country: -none-
KCJ says Canada? Uh, not Black.
KCJ says Portugal? Uh, 92% Portuguese.
And I'm being glib with the corporations I chose, but I basically mean First World Countries.
Now if you don't mind the Rastafari lifestyle, both Jamaica and Barbados are nice, (well, certain parts.) There are 193 nations that belong to the United Nations, about 40-50 are predominantly Black.
Most predominantly Black nations are in Africa. Currently there are 35 active armed conflicts on the African Continent, almost every African Nation would welcome a well trained Black Soldier from America in a heartbeat. You just want to live free in Africa?
Why the nasty tone?
Because KCJ's absurd article was at CNN. If I rolled out of bed and said I was sick of all the minorities in America, I'm moving to Iceland, CNN isn't printing that diatribe. My far-right leaning missive wouldn't be welcome at the nation's largest news corporation.
Ironically, Black Kamala Harris was endorsed for president, by the current president, on the same day the KCJ story dropped.
But there's an undercurrent in the KCJ story that bubbles up to the surface at CNN about every 6 months, and that's the concept of a Black Homeland.
Do I have a problem with a Black Homeland in America? I really don't. As long as Native-Americans get one, then the Hispanics (they are the second largest ethnic group), the Black Homeland, and then finally the Asian-American Homeland.
Oh, and the Whites get a Homeland too.
If we are going to go all-in on the concept of Separate-But-Equal in the United States, there are ways to do it.
But before we go down a rabbit hole that we've already gone down, let's briefly reset the author's angle for writing about wanting to leave America.
Kellie Carter Jackson has been wrongly imprisoned since being framed by dirty White Cops as a teenager---- Wait? That's not true?
Kellie Carter Jackson is really a tenured professor at Wellesley College. Tuition for Wellesley College is $66,000 per year. She's also the Historian-in-Residence for the Museum of African American Studies in Boston. Her writing has been featured at the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and CNN. She has also been interviewed at MSNBC, Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and CNN. She is also an award-winning author.
All of those accolades were achieved in racist America, where she can't live freely yet pulls down, a minimum, of six figures a year. She has a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Education.
I'm not saying Blacks weren't persecuted in the past, I'm saying what does KCJ want to do in America, right now, that she has been blocked from doing because she's not "free?"
This might be an even bigger load of crap when it comes to promotion.
This is Dean Obeidallah's SubStack page. "Only the truth, never the corporate media's 'Both Sides' BS."
Uh, excuse me? Dean Obeidallah works for CNN.
I went over to the CNN Opinion page today and examining their last 50 "Both Sides" articles:
43 - Leaned Left or Far-Left, including Carter-Jackson's Opinion piece above.
4 - Neutral or Non-Political.
3 - Leaned Right. In the week after Donald Trump was nearly assassinated, not one Opinion piece was written defending ANY Right Wing Politician's basic right to live. 2 of the 3 articles were vague business defenses of "the market." One article was from a Conservative who said Biden tricked America about his decline. CNN printed it so no liberal would have to go on the record as to saying the same thing.
What BS is Dean Obeidallah speaking of? The market?
Dean Obeidallah's definition of both sides is the Left and the Far-Left, which is consistently hypocritical when describing the free speech battles being waged today.
If Dean Obeidallah was REALLY sick of corporate media, he could quit. He's a comedian and has his own radio show, he has different revenue streams.
Dean Obeidallah and Kellie Carter Jackson both make a shit-ton of money in America, telling you how terrible America is.
That's quite a scam.
And my guess is that the new Democrat nominee for president is going to tell you the same thing.
Editor's Note: Politics is a dirty business. Just because everyone is lining up behind Harris, doesn't mean they just switch names on the ballot. Harris still has to get Biden's delegates to pledge to her at the convention. I don't think that's automatic.
Me, personally, I am rooting for anarchy on the convention floor.
It'll be fun.
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