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Drew Barrymore accused of racism TikToc video of herself enjoying the rain.
Breaking from the Daily Mail:
Drew Barrymore is accused of racism after posting innocent video of herself enjoying the rain... as black TikTokers brand her a COLONIZER who copied 'black men frolicking trend'
Actress Drew Barrymore has been accused of being racist after posting a video of herself laughing and walking in the rain
Barrymore encourages people to get out into the rain more in her video, but another TikTok user said she is trying to 'dismiss' black creators
The user accused Barrymore of stealing a trend originating in May that featured black men running around joyously in fields
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No one ever thought of filming people having fun outdoors until black TicToker’s “frolicking” videos.
I'm Black American, a foundational black American whose family has been here for centuries. I'm going to provide my opinion and solutions. This has happened because we stopped assimilating into the overarching American culture. If every black American modeled their thinking after WASPs, Catholics, or Christians this wouldn't be happening. My family, friends, and blacks across this country believe in racism for one reason only:
We have never lived in a homogeneous country - Caribbean blacks & Africans ( who are not and never will be black Americans) are classists within their own countries because their countries are all black, they see firsthand that hard work pays off and that the unemployable (without education, trades, or skills) end up starving in the street. The wealthy and the poor all look like them. In America whites have generally been richer than blacks so we continue to attribute it to racism because of our country's racial past. My people think whites got a headstart and that we can NEVER catch up. We don't attribute it to hard work or whites having a culture more conducive to success. It's a defeatist victim mindset that we've accepted without scrutiny. I know success can be replicated despite color because it's been done since the dawn of time, but anyone can see firsthand that Indians and Asians make more than the average white.
What is the problem: You can take the girl out the country but you can't take the country out of the girl.
It's a tale as old as time: the Israelites begged to go back to slavery after God sent them through the desert and told them of the Promised land.
What is the solution: As a man thinks in his heart so is he. Their thinking has to change. They have to see themselves as engineers, scholars, plumbers, moral, a productive part of American society. We've got to stop the hip hop, the victim movies, people have to get married and stay married. The family, church, and schools have to cultivate success and no other portrayals of derelict males or behavior should be glorified in music, TV, etc. White people love hip hop but they don't revert to degenerate behavior catalogued in those songs because they don't take it seriously. For the most part it's just a story to them. The difference is young black men and women see hip hop as an autobiography and/or a guide to life They see themselves in it and see it as their culture. They see themselves as violent or derelict because it's cool. We love being cool. Our culture rewards that it in ways other cultures would view as almost incomprehensible and infantile--because it is.
With this sort of nonsense we are, more than anything else, reminded of how very little true anti-black racism there is in the world, when the perpetually-offended spew their bile on such an innocent situation in their hopes of manufacturing anger and "an incident" over a supposedly racist insult. Anti-white racism such as this has become accepted discourse in the public square, but not nearly enough thoughtful people have overcome their fears of calling it out for what it is.
“There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
~Booker T. Washington (REPUBLiCAN)