So back at work, I have Pandora serving up music. An NAACP advert came on telling me that Black Lives Matter. I suppose this is the $10 billion being spent. But that wasn't the really annoying part. No the really annoying and yes, disappointing, part was the exhortation:
It's time to amplify *all black voices*
All?
Really?
There was no qualification. By simple fact that the speaker is black, their voice should be amplified. The rank hypocrisy here, particularly as we come up on the birthday of MLK Jr. , is that here we have a mainstream "black" organization blatantly calling for something they would have called racist not even last year.
No, a black voice shouldn't be amplified simply because the speaker is black. Black people are just as capable of bullshit speech as anyone else. To think otherwise is to believe that black speech is inherently more valuable than any other speech regardless of its content.
That's racist.
This isn't new. This idea that blacks (and women) could not be challenged when they say things, particularly in regards to race and gender, is something I noticed way, way, wayyyyy back when. I opposed it then for the obvious racist and sexist notion that it was and I oppose it now for the racist and sexist notion that it is.
The other thing is that you know full well they don't mean "all black voices" because certain black voices are not acceptable to the BLM Inc movement because those voices point out that the emperor has no clothes on.
What's also sad about this is that no one involved in the decision-making process even stopped this advertisement from being made AND nobody at Pandora had the moral certitude and backbone to say NO to this blatantly racist advertisement running on their platform.
No longer is the quality or content of the speech important. No, it is the color of the speaker. And these same people will be praising MLK about a week from now without a hint of shame.