So, what is it about Black People, Why They Seem to be Always Complaining?

So, what is it about Black People, Why They Seem to be Always Complaining?

Do black people complain too much about white people?

Do the black diaspora complain too much about the enslavement of their forebears and of how it has and, it sees, will forever disadvantage and handicap them and their descendants?

Black people, it seems are always complaining about white people and white society and how they are being screwed and taken advantage of.

Of how racism is always being used as a weapon against them

So, do black people want to be like white people or become white people?

Of course some black people want to become white people, but even more are happy being black, and just want to have more of the privileges and advantages that they see white people possessing.

For many black people, it is not about being white like white people, but having the socio-economic and political status that white people have.

Black people, stop complaining nuh, don’t you know that nothing much is achieved by complaining? Yuh have to take you fate into your own hands and work hard and prudently to make what you will of it.

Does it seem like black people who live in predominantly white countries complain most about racism?

So, what does that say about life being tough in predominantly black countries, such as on the continent of Africa?

Yes, even there, black people can point to the legacy of white colonialism as being responsible for their hardship, and their leaders and the elite are probably only too happy to encourage them to lay the blame for their plight on, yes, again, the legacy of something which took place many years ago, though vestiges of it are continuing in different forms, in the prevailing socio-economic and political order.

So, black people in America, England and Europe have the de fault scapegoat for their more disadvantageous position in the social order; they blame it on white racism and the legacy of slavery. Should many of them be looking more closely at how they came and continue to be in the position they find themselves, and what they need to do to extricate themselves from the disadvantages they are experiencing?

Of course both of these maladies bear some responsibility, but should the black diaspora in these countries not have made more progress in overcoming them and, by now, be getting their asses upon the top of the mountain of socio-economic and political security?

Black people in Africa do not have the de fault excuse – because that is what it is at times – of blaming racism and slavery. They have to take responsibility for the plight, for the successes and failures of their people. Poverty is about how nations make and distribute their wealth, of fail to make and/or distribute their resources. Achievement is not about making progress in the absence of obstacles; it is about making progress despite the obstacles. Life can be hazardous.

Black people in the diaspora complain about racism and the legacy of slavery. They  have never experienced slavery. Any slavery they are now experiencing is probably mental enslavement.

The biggest challenge confronting black people is not racism; but economic under-development and exploitation. This happens to white people as well.  Part of the solution to the impoverishment – both mentally, intellectually and economically –  is to find a way to break the strangle hold which academic failure, unemployment, low income, crime, homelessness and consumerism have on large sections of the black diaspora.

So, what am I saying; that racism does not exist and is impacting negatively on the lives of many black people? No, racism does exist and is being used, consciously and unintentionally, to negatively impact on the lives of black people, probably especially those in the diaspora populations.

More to the point, what I am saying is that the plight of black is a result of complex factors, and cannot be sufficiently  explained by simply taking refuge in ‘the racism argument.’ It is much more complex than that. One only has to look to the endemic crime problems which are affecting people of colour in the Americas, where crime has become a veritable industry impacting on the lives of millions of people, to be aware that  ‘racism argument’ has become both devalued and sterile.

It seems to me that the use of Class and capitalism as tools to analyse the problem of the disproportionately disadvantaged position of sections of the black diaspora  would have more validity than the use of racism. It might be the case that, for reasons yet to be articulated, the elite, both white and black, might prefer the ‘racism’ explanation.