Without Trauma, Black Americans Would Have No Culture At All

Don't be fooled by the outrage and protests across the country.

Left-wing ideologues and black American activists loved the release of the Tyre Nichols police footage.

They anticipated the Memphis Police Department video as if it was the premiere of another Black Panther film. This sentiment is shared by the daughter of Eric Garner, the 43-year-old black man killed by police in Staten Island under unpropitious circumstances.

"...and the fact that we waited for this video to be released like it was a[n] exclusive movie that needed to be premiered on a certain day, it really boils my blood."

The left wants Tyre Nichols to parallel Chadwick Boseman, the late actor who portrayed T'Challa in the Black Panther film. Every story needs an antagonist. They are leaving no stone unturned in an attempt to blame Nichols' death on white supremacy. After a weekend of auditions, the Memphis Police Department finally found the guy to cast as Killmonger. An MPD spokesperson said in a statement Monday morning, "officer Preston Hemphill has been relieved of duty pending the outcome of the administrative investigation." Guess what color Hemphill is.

We should call this new movie Tennessee Trauma: The Life and Death of Tyre Nichols. After all, blacks get all of their cultural capital from the perceived traumas of history. Our music, movies, fashion, hairstyles, and even food can be traced back to some trauma we do not experience today. 

Black neighborhoods are the test tubes for America. Anything global elites, communists, or Zionists want to implement nationally, they try on blacks first.

Hip-Hop, created and celebrated in predominantly black neighborhoods, has become the soundtrack of America. As I have written many times previously, I am a fan of Hip-Hop. The words "Hip-Hop enthusiast" are in my bio on this site. However, I will not blissfully overlook the satanism pervasive throughout the genre. Virtually every artist, album, and song of note feature needless and repeated use of the word "n*gga", lyrics about robbing or killing someone, promotion of reckless drug use, degradation of women, and the rejection of authority. If it's not 21 Savage, Lil' Wayne, or Drake explicitly promoting these themes, it's Nas, Kendrick Lamar, or J. Cole promoting them under the guise of being "conscious".

Nas repeatedly uses traumatic imagery to sell albums. For example, the cover of his 2008 album, initially N*gger but later left untitled, features Nas with whip lashes on his back in the shape of an N.

A decade later, he released Nasir, which features a photo taken in 1988 of five black kids standing against a brick wall during Dallas' crack cocaine trade epidemic.

Today, Hip-Hop, in all its satanic and traumatic glory, is the number one music genre in the country. People of all ages and skin colors consume it. Hollywood and the sports world have fully embraced Hip-Hop, broadcasting it into millions of homes daily.

Fashion trends adored by black Americans often have negative origins. Sagging pants have cultural ties to prison. Braids, do-rags, and headwraps have connections to slavery. Khanya Mtshali is a native of Johannesburg, South Africa, and writes for an array of left-wing opinion sites wrote an article titled The Radical History of the Headwrap. The subline of the piece reads, "Born into slavery, then reclaimed by black women, the headwrap is now a celebrated expression of style and identity."

Maybe it's why so many blacks like LeBron James adore Nike. The company generates billions of dollars off the backs of slave labor, including the Uyghurs, enslaved Muslims being held in work camps in Xinjiang, China.

Soul food, a popular genre of cuisine celebrated by blacks, contains dishes high in fat and low in nutrition. Ox tails, frog legs, catfish, fatback, pig feet, and gizzards were popular in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi during the 1960s and 70s. Black slaves needed food high in calories to endure the long hours of manual labor. We are no longer slaves working unpaid manual labor in hot Alabama cotton fields. Today, the consumption of soul food is unnecessary and keeps us in poor health.

Even though cooks are creating healthier adaptations of soul food, the mental connection to slavery still remains.

Black Americans have become so attached to the hip with trauma the ones who do not want to wallow in victimhood are ridiculed.

Take Fox Sports personality Emmanuel Acho.

Amid the Tyre Nichols "faux'" outrage, Black Twitter had the time to roast Acho for stating he had "the privilege and luxury of not having generational trauma because my parents were born in Nigeria."

Acho, a former Philadelphia Eagle and Cleveland Brown, falls from the Ta-Nehisi Coates tree of logic. He is a liberal ideologue who went on book tours claiming white people need to have "uncomfortable conversations" with black people. I do not agree with much of what leaves his lips. However, his mindset is spot on here. Acho chooses to reflect and project the positive aspects of his Nigerian culture. Have Nigerians been enslaved before? Yes? Has Nigeria suffered horrific atrocities in its history? Yes. But he does not partake in the victimhood triathlon Van Lathan Jr. wants him to participate in.

Trauma has become a multi-billion dollar industry. As I mentioned in a piece I wrote last year, there would be so many lawyers, attorneys, professors, rappers, chefs, comedians, and HR directors a lot lighter in the pockets without the perpetual narrative of white supremacy. Sites like the Atlanta Black Star would not exist because they could not produce brainless content like, "While the numbers do show that Blacks are over-represented in acts of murder and violent crime in the U.S. and other countries, Dr. Amos Wilson says the reasons they resort to violence and crime is due to their relationship with a system that has excluded and oppressed them for centuries." 

Tyre Nichols is not a casualty of white supremacy. He did not die because of an oppressive system. He is a casualty of black America's decades-long affair with trauma.

 
Vincent Williams

Founder and Chief Editor of Critic at Extra Large, an American, former radio personality, former Music Director, Hip-Hop enthusiast and lover of all things mint.

https://twitter.com/VinWilliams28
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