Posted on 07/16/2020 9:58:41 AM PDT by USA Conservative
It is difficult to decipher much of what Nick Cannon says in his rambling racist tirade against white people – he appears, for one thing, to think that melanin is some sort of supernatural potion that endows darker skinned people with superior virtue and intelligence – but the basic points are clear. Cannon believes that white people are “lesser,” “savages,” “barbarians,” and suffering from a “deficiency.” Whites also lack “compassion,” “self-esteem,” and “soul,” and “the only way they can act is evil.”
Whatever else we might say about this, we should be grateful that Nick Cannon performed the valuable service of demonstrating what genuine racism sounds like. The word is misused and misapplied so often that it can sometimes be easy to forget that racism is a real thing. The Left has made “racist” interchangeable with “has opinions that differ from my own,” but that is not what racism actually is. Rather, racism is the belief that a certain race of people are lesser, savage, barbaric, and deficient. Which is exactly what Nick Cannon said about whites. Textbook racism, you might say.
Of course, if a white celebrity (or white non-celebrity) used even one of these terms to describe black people, he would be rightly condemned by everyone, all parties, from all corners, everywhere, and would immediately lose every job he currently has and might have had in the future. This would all happen with lightening speed and there would be no one, except on the fringes of the fringe, speaking up in defense of him. That’s because, contrary to the claims of “systemic” and “inherent” racism in American culture, anti-black racism is not only rejected by the mainstream, but is perhaps the view most rejected by the mainstream. And not just by the mainstream. It is rejected almost everywhere in America, in the mainstream and nearly all of its tributaries. This is a very good thing, and a sign of progress, though it doesn’t mean anti-black racism no longer exists. It is just that anti-black racism has a very difficult time finding safe harbor or a sounding board or a cheering section.
This is not the case for anti-white racism, which is often ignored, tacitly accepted, or outright defended. We have seen all three of these options on display with the Nick Cannon story. ViacomCBS did terminate its relationship with the professed bigot – a pretty severe financial penalty, to be sure – but the corporation very conspicuously avoided denouncing Cannon’s anti-white racism in their statement on the matter. In fact, their official reason for firing him has nothing at all to do with calling white people savage barbarians. They were instead focused on separate comments Cannon made promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, calling black people “the true Hebrews,” and claiming that blacks cannot be anti-Semitic because they are the “real Semitic people.” This is obviously false, bizarre, and objectionable. Even worse is essentially claiming that a whole race of people are subhuman. ViacomCBS ignored the latter, seeming to suggest that if Cannon hadn’t mentioned Jewish people, and had stuck to dehumanizing the white race, he’d still have a job today.
Most of the media coverage has followed Viacom’s lead, choosing to pretend that one of the country’s most famous and ubiquitous celebrities didn’t just claim that a whole race is comprised of evil savages. An article in Essence summarizes the racist diatribe as a conversation about “violence at the hands of white people.” Other articles seem to paint Cannon as the aggrieved party while again making no mention of his explicitly racist attack against whites.
Like his now-former employer Viacom, when Cannon issued his official apology Wednesday night, he felt no need to address his anti-white comments, focusing entirely on his anti-Semitic claims.
That is what ignoring and tacitly accepting anti-white racism looks like. But, as I said, there are always plenty of people ready to outright defend it. Just look at Nick Cannon’s Twitter or Facebook page and you will see hundreds of people expressing their support for him, many of whom explicitly endorse his racist comments. Some high-profile BLM activists and proponents have come valiantly to Cannon’s defense. And Cannon’s explicit defenders include some of the most powerful forces in media, like Sean “Diddy” Combs, who offered the racist a job and expressed solidarity with him, saying “We are for our people first!” Famous athletes have gotten in on the action as well. In a now-deleted tweet, former NBA star Dwayne Wade praised Cannon’s leadership and declared, “We are with you!”
This normalization of anti-white racism has real world consequences. As I have previously documented, there have been a slew of brutally violent attacks against white people in recent weeks, and though none of them have been prosecuted as hate crimes (but pouring paint on a BLM mural somehow is a hate crime), it is difficult to believe that there is no racial motivation to these assaults.
What else can we expect? When a certain demographic is constantly portrayed as the villain, and all the evil in the world is blamed on them, and hatred and degradation of this group is studiously ignored or outright justified, we cannot be surprised to see this carefully cultivated resentment and suspicion spill over into violence and worse. It’s a story as old as humanity. We have seen it play out countless times. Now the cycle is beginning again. There is nothing new under the Sun.
There’s plenty of unbiased data, from issued patents to Nobel and Pulitzer prize winners, to disprove his content. Racism is a learned behavior, which you’d think would make blacks ask the question: “Why don’t other minority groups experience the same levels of racism?” No, blacks have a problem that requires blacks to take action to fix it. Personally, I think things went downhill fast with the breakup of the black family. With a 72% illegitimacy rate, what chance does a black child have without parental leadership from both parents?
Everything that has made this man wealthy was invented by these inferior white people. The cameras, the microphones, the lighting. the network his show runs on, the televisions all of it. In fact he is guilty of brazen cultural appropriation every time he goes on the air.
Definition of racism
1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
Of course there are people that support his rant. Which I had to turn off yesterday before it ended.
Racism is still alive and some can make excuses all they want for how they think and feel. It’s still racism. People are entitled to think what they want. But, as soon as their views cause and influence negative actions, that’s where it now infringes on others. They are vocalizing and encouraging negative and overt hostility. When Free speech creates a climate of violence against innocent people, it needs to be labeled for what it is and be shut down.
It's the Wakanda phenomenon from the "Black Panther" comic book movie. The most civilized place is in Africa. The highest level of technology is in Africa. The most advanced people are in Africa. Yes, they wear fur and feathers and carry spears, but they are far ahead of anything White people have ever achieved. It's could be the magic vibranium they dig out of the ground in Wakanda, or it could be the melanin.
I’m sure most people have flushed things down their toilet which exceed Nick Cannon both in IQ and general quality. He is utterly despicable.
Finally someone with a national voice brought it up.
Fox is too chicken-shit of the BLM fallout to fire a stupid little black racist from their stupid little game show.
Guttless bastards who need to be shut down forever.
He said whites were jealous of this melanin
Lol. He’s obviously keeps himself secure in an echo chamber. No criticism of melanin . But definitely not jealous. I’m happy with how God made me and everyone should feel the same. In case he didn’t get the memo from MLK, It’s not about melanin, but the character of a person. What he exceeds in melanin, he Is is lacking in character .
I have no idea who this idiot is. Listening to his rant was akin to a 5 year old’s attempt at explaining how fish breathe under water. I’m guessing he was blasted on coke or meth. Or both. Don’t much care.
The real problem is that these gullible cretins actually believe this garbage.
I did Nazi see this coming about Nick “Burn The Jews!” Cannon...
What annoys me most is when some Jewish twatter user says something like:
“As a white person I am ashamed of what my people did concerning slavery”
Then when someone calls them on it, they suddenly become a yarmulke wearing, dredel spinning devout Orthodox Jew who is constantly oppressed.
Even though they are actually a atheist socialist pile of crap.
That sort of behavior does a great disservice to the actual Religious Jews who just want to live and let live. It is this sort of crap that is boosting the growing antisemitism in this country.
If white people were evil like he says there would be no black people in America. If whites were enslaved by blacks would they fight a war against each other to end slavery? I highly doubt it. Maybe we should go back to segregation. Let them live off their own tax dollars without being subsidized by other people’s tax dollars
Nick Cannon believes white people have 4 dimples in their skulls and it makes them not be able to be compassionate.
Indeed but the question is. Will whites do anything about it or just march quietly to the gulag?
White=evil and must be eradicated
yeah, he apologized to the Jews but left the white comments stand. F him.
Whatever else we might say about this, we should be grateful that Nick Cannon performed the valuable service of demonstrating what genuine racism sounds like.
I know nothing of this guy Nick Cannon. I have seen his name in print and that is all.
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