By An Old Friend
Sun, Aug 2, 2020 6:34 p.m.
AOF: Quite a Dose of Blacketty-Black-Black
It includes this sidelight:
As a black man, what I actually feel — constantly — is the fear of death; the fear that when I go for my morning stroll through Central Park or to 7-Eleven for an AriZona Iced Tea, I won't make it back home. I fear I won't get to celebrate my parents' 40th anniversary; I won't get to add money to my nephew's brokerage account on his third birthday; I won't get to take my partner out dancing in her favorite Bed-Stuy bars.
But the fear doesn't arrive only in the wake of uniquely viral killings of black people such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Trayvon Martin. It's a resting hum under every moment of my life.
AOF: That's a robust example of how blacks have been stampeded into the conviction that they're being hunted. None of the Floyd, Taylor, or Martin cases had anything to do with that, but it's been drummed into their heads that that's what happened.
With all due respect, I must beg to differ with AOF.
The writer, a standard issue person who thinks he's black, is engaging in racial opportunism. The only people he has to worry about killing him are black or Hispanic. He is in absolutely no danger of being lynched by Whites. He knew that white people at places like the times, were willing to pay for such pathetic garbage.
Note, too, that that such pathetic race mania has served for years as a way to cement instant rapport among strangers who think they are black.
Correct. About a thousand times more likely to be kill by one of his own kind that a whitey. The biggest danger to a colored man by far is other colored man.
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