The growing choir of the right of frustration with “black people” is impossible to ignore. They call it ‘black fatigue’.
They point to the racing wars of the years 2010 and the dei takeover of the American institutions as their breaking point. But after the return of Donald Trump to the White House, something shifted.
Instead of doubling the American creed of individualism, this faction waved hard in collectivism and painting the painting of blacks as a single problem with the same tired tribal brush they have once stuck.
Now some are leaning on the right in messages such as this from Evan Kilgore on X, who wrote: “Why are black people so disproportionately violent? Why threaten or act with violence as soon as they are offended or discomfort? Seriously … why are so many black people like that?”
It is a chorus reflected about countless tweets, each a lazy slide in tribal identity politics that the individual knew and a whole race for the sins of a few damn.
If you think that a handful of ugly videos defines every black person because of the shared skin, you don’t see it straight in the tribal swamp that you claim to hate.
My work is with children – each is a separate soul, not racial statistics. Not two blacks, not two, are the same. Lifting them means igniting their personal fire, not boxing in a racial story.
I know the violence in my community. You would be difficult to find someone on the south side of Chicago who is not aware.
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It’s raw, it’s real and I could blame racism, “the white man” or liberal policy. I could just say, “Those are just black people.” But that is weak.
Tribalism is a stool, a cheap recording that feeds keyboard ears on X, but does not dissolve anything.
The irony burns: a considerable faction on the right, after years of closing tribalism, is now tying its easy power. They have exchanged the principle for the flow of collective anger.
Where will this lead them? What is their real final goal?
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I chose the more difficult road. My work is with children – each is a separate soul, not racial statistics. Not two blacks, not two, are the same. Lifting them means igniting their personal fire, not boxing in a racial story. (Isn’t that how we came into this mess in the first place?) It’s difficult, it’s messy, and not everyone makes it. But it’s the only path that matters. And works.
I pour the American culture in my youth – the demand for individual grit, not “black” politics or “black” solutions. At first they are people, no pawns in a racial game. The road forward is not due to tribal falls, right or left, but by the discipline of forging their own future.
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