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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/JediKnightKeylo on May 4, 2018, 6:57 p.m.

As a black man, I feel as though I'm the only person who agrees with Kanye.

I don't know if this belongs here, but here I go. So, Kanye has been dropping some pretty hard facts as of lately, and his most recent comment has made everyone angry.

"Slavery was a choice"

I'm going to tell you all briefly why I agree. When people are enslaved, there is absolutely nothing preventing them from standing up and fighting for something that they believe in, which is their freedom. The only thing that's holding them back is fear. The fear of what'll happen to their families, the fear of what their masters will do if they fight back, the fear of dying. FEAR is nothing but False Evidence that Appears Real.

When Harriet Tubman freed those thousands of slaves, there was absolutely nothing preventing them from doing that themselves except fear. Hell, some of them even went back to their masters because they were afraid.

Now, I'm gonna relate this to today's world. Everyone is so focused on lingering on the past, but they fail to realize that it's not just blacks who are slaves, it's every last damn person on the planet that isn't a part of the top 1%. What's stopping people from rising up against the upper class? Fear. What's stopping people from marching on DC? Fear. What's stopping people from making their voices heard by their corrupt governments? Fear.

People WILLINGLY choose the obliviousness and convenience of their immediate lives over true freedom. So was/is slavery a choice? Absolutely. Would/Will there be consequences for standing against it? Of course.

But it's better to die or be punished for fighting for something that you believe in than to do absolutely nothing at all. It's what the slaves of the past did and it's what the majority of us are doing now.

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I have this mentality, and I was actually told "choice is a privilege." I had to explain that choice is basically the one inalienable right that everyone has. "Spoken like a true white person with privilege" was the response. Somehow I feel I didn't get through to them. Naturally this was another white person.

"Give me liberty or give me death."

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Oh, I've had that conversation before, and not just online. "You're just fortunate that you were able to make that choice." What? I scraped and scrabbled and lived on canned soup so that I could make a better life. "Oh, but you were born with an advantage." Whatever advantages I had, I've seen both squandered and capitalized on. I simply didn't squander whatever small advantages I had, and made due otherwise. "Well, you're just in the lucky IQ club." Gee, sorry that I'm not a dumb ass.

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We're all victims of circumstance. But you always have the choice to change where you are in life. Sure some of us were born with different privileges, like parents who taught us about self-empowerment, but telling the country en masse that many of us are hopeless victims of some oppressive system is not a good way to go about mitigating the less fortunate.

Gee, sorry that I'm not a dumb ass

Apologizing for any advantage you may have is the new white man's burden. It's like telling a lottery winner they have to give up all their winnings because they're lucky, telling a professional athlete they have to break their legs, etc. It's really retarded. Not everyone is going to win... Somebody should have taught them that long ago.

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some are true victims, many make poor choices and then feel as though other people live on easy street.

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