Posted on 06/26/2020 7:41:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
BET Founder Robert Johnson mocked the cancel culture mob for taking down statues, getting television shows removed, and have professors fired, thinking that’s what African Americans want.
People who are knocking down statues "have the mistaken assumption that black people are sitting around cheering for them saying 'Oh, my God, look at these white people. They're doing something so important to us. They're taking down the statue of a Civil War general who fought for the South," Johnson told Fox News. "You know, black people, in my opinion, black people laugh at white people who do this the same way we laugh at white people who say we got to take off the TV shows."
Referring to these people as “borderline anarchists,” Johnson said their actions will do nothing to “give a kid whose parents can't afford college money to go to college. It's not going to close the labor gap between what white workers are paid and what black workers are paid. And it's not going to take people off welfare or food stamps.”
Johnson rejected the backlash against public figures who say "all lives matter" instead of "black lives matter," and the cancel craze targeting TV shows like "Dukes of Hazzard" and movie classics such as "Gone with the Wind."
He also mocked white celebrities for what he described as apologizing for their race in emotional social media speeches.
"You know, that to me is the silliest expression of white privilege that exists in this country. The notion that a celebrity could get on a Twitter feed and say, 'oh, my God, I am so sorry that I am white.’ I don't find any black people getting on Twitter and saying, 'Oh, I'm so sorry I'm black.' And we got the worst problems. ... My thing is: embrace being white and do the right thing." (Fox News)
Johnson went on to call the cancel culture's actions "tantamount to rearranging the deck chairs on a racial Titanic."
"It absolutely means nothing," he said.
"White Americans seem to think that if they just do sort of emotionally or drastic things that black people are going to say, ‘Oh my God, white people love us because they took down a statue of Stonewall Jackson.’ Frankly, black people don’t give a damn," Johnson added.
In 2001, the BET founder became the country's first black billionaire.
It’s an odd kind of laughing.
I’m laughing at them too. They’re idiots.
I despise White guilt pansies far more than racist Blacks.
Johnson also said that Blacks should start their own political party. Please do.
Johnson has more sense than NASCAR, the NFL, and the CEOs of every other groveling corporation.
I’m still laughing at the image of all the Congressional low IQ dummocraps kneeling with their little kente cloth scarves. I mean, can we get more groveling? Please? Should have set all their scarves on fire while they were wearing them, the idiots.
Really?? Johnson is the asswipe that wants Trillions in Reparations. Yep...he’s got a lot of sense.
Let’s start by redistributing Robert Johnson’s wealth. Seize his assets first! Seems he’s all in for the program so he wouldn’t mind.
It’s not just African Americans who are laughing. ALL intelligent people are laughing at those morons.
same for me. Those idiotic , dumb , ignorant to history , lacking common sense white guilt turds are the ones I despise the most in this country. It is sickening to see them hate themselves to have been brainwashed and get on their knees.
Now we have the black population being used by the white guilt crowd to cause division by a political party which put them into slavery and were against their rights.
It’s not enough for black people to laugh at them, they genuinely need to start getting angry with them, because as Malcolm X said, the greatest enemy of black people is the white liberal.
He also started a channel focused for blacks. So much for inclusiveness . Imagine a white guy starting a channel calling it the white entertainment channel .
That would only be a down payment.
When it was frittered away, there would be a whole new round of demands for reparations. There would be a demand for "permanent reparations."
By the way, IRAs and retirement assets are going to be the target of "reparations" promoters.
The Left has had their eye on IRAs for twenty years.
Black people aren’t stupid and don’t like to be patronized.
He gets it.
I prefer racist blacks to self hating whites
So do I, I find most blacks willing to have a real "conversation" on race. White Liberals just love to lecture people and throw insults.
Does he? I missed that.
Get ready this is the narrative for the next few months. The Democrats and MSM are going to re-educate America with the Democrat fake history. The internet will be scrubbed about the sins of the Democrats.The Black communities were getting too close to the truth about their Democrat race baiters.
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