Black sports stars, rappers, politicians, etc, etc, are one percenters, wonder if the left will go after there money...
The Victimhood of Black Millionaires
What do you do when you aren’t a victim anymore?
May 19, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
Fresh from the success of Between the World and Me, professional literary victim Ta-Nehisi Coates snapped up a luxurious landmarked brownstone for $2.1 million. The brownstone featured original Tiger Oak, Maple, and Mahogany wood floors, a chef’s kitchen, wedding cake moldings, a tin ceiling, terrace, garden, carved woodwork, a fireplace and all the other expected trimmings of the downtrodden.
When the purchase was exposed and Coates was mocked on Twitter for his gentrifying ways, he posted a whiny self-pitying screed claiming that he could no longer live there because “you can’t really be a black writer in this country, take certain positions, and not think about your personal safety.”
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens is still a majority black area. Whatever risks to his personal safety Coates might have faced in his $2 million brownstone would have come from nearby gangbangers, not stealthy white ninja assassins out to hunt down black writers who “take certain positions.” The last recorded crime as of this writing involved an armed robbery with a “black male” fleeing the scene.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the guru of black fragility. Between the World and Me is a gushing stream of hatred and self-pity in which the National Book Award winner and MacArthur genius grant recipient moaned that the firefighters and police officers who died on September 11 “were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body.”
Neurotic black fragility justifies dehumanizing white people. White people are just evil forces of nature who might at any moment shatter Coates’ body, even while they’re dying trying to rescue people of all races from the World Trade Center, or impinge on his $2.1 million brownstone hideaway. Occasionally, in their inscrutable way, they might bestow a genius grant or a book award on him. But that’s just another example of how they exploit “black bodies” by financing their brownstone purchases.
This is a good season for the prophets and profits of victimhood. Black fragility is especially very profitable. The Civil Rights movement began with the assertion of moral strength and then eventually physical strength. The current crybullying claims only weakness. It’s a civil rights movement of fragile crybullying nerds who whine even while they’re winning.
The Mizzou protests were kicked off by Jonathan Butler, the son of a millionaire, who went on a hunger strike based on utter ridiculous nonsense. Butler insisted to the media that he was a “dead man walking”. Then the football team joined the protest to see “what can we do to make sure that Jonathan Butler eats.” That was last year. He’s still walking and whining. Also he’s available for “speaking engagements, personal appearances and corporate events”. Possibly also wedding and bar mitzvahs.
Like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Butler’s calling card is his fragility. Coates fantasizes about attacks on “black bodies”. Butler made a fetish of his supposed hunger strike. Both men are whiny millionaires whose victimhood was manufactured out of whole cashmere and has proven to be enormously profitable.
Their victimhood is a voluntary fantasy that they choose to engage in. It’s a performance
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Barack Obama had convinced Americans that he was ready to be the post-racial president they needed only to revert right back to the Victim-in-Chief. Men like Coates and Butler have no interest in even trying to be anything else. They replay the civil rights movement as farce. While the black middle class struggles with its identity, they pander to insecure white liberals who are not ready to see black people as equals and to that slice of the black middle class that wants the economic privileges of equality without ever taking on any of the responsibility. They want the terrace and the garden, the chef’s kitchen and wedding cake moldings, but they also want to blame white people for everything.
The Victimhood of Black Millionaires
The Victimhood of Black Millionaires
What do you do when you aren’t a victim anymore?
May 19, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
Fresh from the success of Between the World and Me, professional literary victim Ta-Nehisi Coates snapped up a luxurious landmarked brownstone for $2.1 million. The brownstone featured original Tiger Oak, Maple, and Mahogany wood floors, a chef’s kitchen, wedding cake moldings, a tin ceiling, terrace, garden, carved woodwork, a fireplace and all the other expected trimmings of the downtrodden.
When the purchase was exposed and Coates was mocked on Twitter for his gentrifying ways, he posted a whiny self-pitying screed claiming that he could no longer live there because “you can’t really be a black writer in this country, take certain positions, and not think about your personal safety.”
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens is still a majority black area. Whatever risks to his personal safety Coates might have faced in his $2 million brownstone would have come from nearby gangbangers, not stealthy white ninja assassins out to hunt down black writers who “take certain positions.” The last recorded crime as of this writing involved an armed robbery with a “black male” fleeing the scene.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the guru of black fragility. Between the World and Me is a gushing stream of hatred and self-pity in which the National Book Award winner and MacArthur genius grant recipient moaned that the firefighters and police officers who died on September 11 “were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body.”
Neurotic black fragility justifies dehumanizing white people. White people are just evil forces of nature who might at any moment shatter Coates’ body, even while they’re dying trying to rescue people of all races from the World Trade Center, or impinge on his $2.1 million brownstone hideaway. Occasionally, in their inscrutable way, they might bestow a genius grant or a book award on him. But that’s just another example of how they exploit “black bodies” by financing their brownstone purchases.
This is a good season for the prophets and profits of victimhood. Black fragility is especially very profitable. The Civil Rights movement began with the assertion of moral strength and then eventually physical strength. The current crybullying claims only weakness. It’s a civil rights movement of fragile crybullying nerds who whine even while they’re winning.
The Mizzou protests were kicked off by Jonathan Butler, the son of a millionaire, who went on a hunger strike based on utter ridiculous nonsense. Butler insisted to the media that he was a “dead man walking”. Then the football team joined the protest to see “what can we do to make sure that Jonathan Butler eats.” That was last year. He’s still walking and whining. Also he’s available for “speaking engagements, personal appearances and corporate events”. Possibly also wedding and bar mitzvahs.
Like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Butler’s calling card is his fragility. Coates fantasizes about attacks on “black bodies”. Butler made a fetish of his supposed hunger strike. Both men are whiny millionaires whose victimhood was manufactured out of whole cashmere and has proven to be enormously profitable.
Their victimhood is a voluntary fantasy that they choose to engage in. It’s a performance
...
Barack Obama had convinced Americans that he was ready to be the post-racial president they needed only to revert right back to the Victim-in-Chief. Men like Coates and Butler have no interest in even trying to be anything else. They replay the civil rights movement as farce. While the black middle class struggles with its identity, they pander to insecure white liberals who are not ready to see black people as equals and to that slice of the black middle class that wants the economic privileges of equality without ever taking on any of the responsibility. They want the terrace and the garden, the chef’s kitchen and wedding cake moldings, but they also want to blame white people for everything.
The Victimhood of Black Millionaires
