We Need To Start Barking At White People Who Speak Out Of Turn

Very Smart Brothas - The Root ^ | February 19, 2018 | Damon Young

[EdnaMode]

Editor’s Note: This story contains spoilers for the film Black Panther.

Black Panther’s Wakanda is a near-utopic vision of how a country could look; perhaps the best depiction of Afrofuturism ever captured on film. There were thriving and ideological-diverse cities surrounded by expansive and bucolic countrysides. There was modern technology perfectly weaved in to cultural tradition, a melding that was symbiotic instead of antagonistic. And while I didn’t see this happening during the movie, I’m sure Wakanda has amazing bottomless brunches.

Unfortunately, a present-day attempt to recreate Wakanda would be unrealistic. Mainly because we’re roughly 20,000 years behind Wakandan tech. And mostly because we’re too infected with colonization and its myriad residues and peripheral effects. Also, we’re a little short on Vibranium.

One thing, however, that we can and definitely should start doing is what M’Baku and his Que Dog Jabari Tribe did when encountering a problematic white dude who was speaking when there was no ask or need or purpose for the thoughts and opinions of problematic white dudes.

Bark.

Not a purposeless bark. This isn’t a shih tzu barking through the window at a squirrel. Instead this would be an intentional bark. A targeted bark. An overpowering bark. A drowning bark. A Wakandan bark. A bark meant to communicate “Um, who told you that you can speak? When it is time for your words, we will let you know. And maybe that time will never come. We’ll see. Now, just shut up and stand there. Maybe get on your phone and google ‘How not to be a colonizer.’ Whatever you do, I want to hear you not speaking.”

[Chuckster]

Vi>We used to call it Rhodesia.

Actually, we used to call Zimbabwe Rhodesia.

The Republic of South Africa, a different country, is one of the few in Africa never to have had a coup d'état, and regular elections have been held for almost a century.

[TigersEye]

Why would I be talking to a dog in the first place?

Down, boy! Heel! Roll over.

[a fool in paradise]

Too many uppity white people?

#Triggered

[sargon]

The Republic of South Africa, a different country, is one of the few in Africa never to have had a coup d'état, and regular elections have been held for almost a century.

"Regular elections"? Really? And that's how the minority White government maintained power? With "regular elections"? You might not want to look at those "regular elections" too closely. LOL...

[jazminerose]

Barking? Like Hillary?

[PhiloBedo]

errr....they don’t work in the future, either.

[Ouderkirk]

[eyedigress]

Bring it you stupid SOB. My first shot will be your kneecap. My second may involve a baseball bat.

[aquila48]

“Black Panther’s Wakanda is a near-utopic vision of how a country could look; perhaps the best depiction of Afrofuturism ever captured on film.’

I haven’t looked to see who created this black utopia fiction but I’ m going to go on a limb and guess they were self hating guilt, ridden whites.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

To the writer of this hateful screed: what would your response be if white people simply separated themselves from blacks as a whole
.
You do not want to hear us speak: very well, not only will we we not speak, we will separate ourselves from you.

Oh, and by the way stop appropriating our culture; I’m sure all the advances in Wakanda are based on technologies invented, developed, or improved upon by white people.

[Mr Rogers]

From the article: "A group of white people huddled on a sidewalk refuse to step aside when you attempt to walk past them? WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!"

Better make sure the group of white people minding their own business aren't armed and inclined to shoot dogs.

[Teacher317]

Does he realize that Black Panther, Wakanda et al., are creation of two Jewish guys?

And for the film, the producer is white (Kevin Feige), the production company (Marvel) is mostly white, and the distribution company (Disney) is mostly white... and those are the ones who rake in the majority of the profits from the film.

[Architect of Avalon]

Me too.

[I want the USA back]

I told you they want to eliminate Whitey.

[New Perspective]

Bark at me and I will put them down like the rabid dog they are.

[Fightin Whitey]

one of the few in Africa never to have had a coup d'état, and regular elections have been held for almost a century

Not fair! For many years they gave out free necklaces in order to, um, spark people to get out and vote!

[Architect of Avalon]

Chase, Erase, and Replace.

[ConservaTeen]

Hey blacks, why not pull up your pants so your junk is not showing, speak English, respect others and act nice and maybe we will respect you...

[Ladysforest]

I think that many do. And always have.

[tbw2]

Do you want people to hate you? Interrupting them with non-words when they try to speak, repeatedly, will do that.

People have two ways to persuade others - speech and violence. When you deny them the ability to speak, all they have left is violence - and you don’t want that. So let them speak.
Dr. Jordan Peterson.

By calling for the systematic silencing - by humiliating means and out of racist misconceptions no less - guarantees problems.

It will guarantee segregation at a minimum.

It is likely to leave to violence. Both violence by those liberals have labeled evil oppressors, people unworthy of speech, presence unless serving their moral superiors, as Communists purged the nation of the traitor kulaks.

And violence by those told your words are worse than animal noises, so we will shout you down the same way until you learn your place, the silent subject who only speaks when spoken to and only then with proper deference.

That they call white people colonizers, ignoring Africa’s thousands of years of black on black slavery before whites even arrived in the continent, is a deliberate lie to justify the abuse just as Jews and the untouchables of India were assigned collective guilt to justify their systemic oppression.