As you know, it’s very difficult to be a minority in the modern United States of America. The U.S. is widely known for being among the most hostile countries in the world for anyone who is not white, for gay people, for trans people, for religious minorities, and for all women.
Except it’s not because that’s the opposite of the truth.
It is breathtaking how American citizens who enjoy the highest standard of living and the most legal freedom in the world believe they are living in an oppressive authoritarian regime. And they really do seem to believe it. Modern feminists get dolled up in Handmaid’s Tale costumes to protest the “misogyny” of the U.S.. What’s the misogyny, where’s the hatred of women? Why, it’s in any law that restricts any woman from having an abortion at any time. Outlaw third trimester abortions? Misogyny.
And for black people? It’s never been worse. Sixty-one years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and black people are held down harder and more cruelly than ever before. Sure, they have full legal enfranchisement, they’re picked for college admissions and granted professional jobs preferentially over more qualified white candidates, but someone actually arrested some black people for brawling in Waffle House.
OK, you might say, but what about the hundreds to thousands of innocent, unarmed black men killed by police every year? That’s what people who self-identified as “very liberal” actually believe. A survey by Skeptic.com found that those who identified their politics this way said they believed U.S. police (all assumed to be white) kill 1,000 or more unarmed black men every year.
The actual number every year? About 20 to 35 – most of which are justified, such an involving an unarmed black man grabbing for a weapon.
The adage about good times creating weak men (and women) is obviously true. Only extremely comfortable, privileged people can begin to believe that they are actually held down and oppressed. They simply haven’t had any real hard times, so they make them up in their minds.
So it is with this young black woman, an American who decided to escape what she believes is the racist hell-hole called the United States to live in the African country of Ghana. Turns out, though, that living in a third-world country isn’t all its cracked up to be. In a social media video, the woman complains about the bribery and fraud expected in Ghana, as well as about the “bullsh*t animals and scorpions.
Predictably, social media users were not entirely sympathetic:
Tee-hee:
