As Black Gay/SGL Men, What Do You Think Of This?-Do You Feel The Same Way?

This is from a post on another forum I am on (open for anyone to see as I was not even logged in when I read it). I can provide a link or you can just google it to find it.

I have to admit when I read this I felt a little shudder of fear. Even though I also sometimes think we just might have to burn everything down to start anew, to see it put like this made me feel...apprehensive maybe? With things the way they are now it just seems like we are going downhill, like we are approaching the 'stop giving a fuck' referred to rather than moving away from it. It also made me feel frustrated and helpless, like there is nothing I can do to stop or change anything and that I am just like a scrap piece of paper caught up in the whirlwind of what is what is going on here and in the World.

What do you think?

 

Thanks for the replies. Reading it was just a bit 'jarring' to me. I appreciated that he was open and honest about what he felt.

This part:

Well if things did get to this point, I don't think anyone would be watching anything with a smile on their face-every action has a reaction and the reaction would mean disaster for everyone. We would ALL burn-tit for tat. The white people who have the power(money, connections, power, white supremacy)would literally destroy the nation before they would have power 'taken' away from them. It has to be gradually taken to avoid this. If they did not push the nuke buttons they would at least turn the US into a military dictatorship and all blacks, left wingers(like me)would be dead or in camps.

Also the part about white allies and Latino allies...white allies would be killed or in camps too, along with any Latinos who joined.

But I do get it and wonder 'what is the answer?' with Trump in office and all? Is this the last gasp of his kind or the start of something new and sinister?


*and terrorism never wins in the end(unless it can provoke a crazy reaction). What did the Taliban or Al-Qaeda or ISIS really win? Look at Europe-people are getting used to terror. Look at how quickly the latest bombings and massacres just fade away so quickly-much more so now that they are getting more frequent.

People talked about Columbine forever...now you have the Vegas and Texas massacres and it is old news already. People are very adaptable to terror, war, all kinds of things. That has to be remembered. Look at how London adapted to the Blitz, and even Germany adapted to constant mass bombing almost to the very end. No group is just going to fall apart when it faces destruction-look at how African Americans and Native Americans have survived immense suffering.

I think he was a bit short-sighted in this part(if it ever did get to that point).

*I also don't remember any black Americans 'celebrating' 9-11. Many many blacks died. I do remember some celebration in Palestine but that was about it.

 

I mentioned his thoughts about 'taking action' and all, but when it comes to how he feels and how he expresses his rage I really appreciate his openness and honesty. Two of the biggest gifts you can give other people are openness and honesty, IMO.

I noticed he said this, and I don't know what else one can do when someone has such as free-floating justified rage and is confronted with a feeling of helplessness in the face of such an intractable issue. That kind of rage is corrosive if one just gives in to it. It is better to express it and channel it-for one's own sake. I don't know his rage-I can't know that, but I know of other things that are frustrating and to an extent in a similar manner.

*Kind of like how on here Ocky(who I kind of think of as 'Rocky Ocky' since he is often rocking the boat, stirring things up, shaking things up, posting provocative stuff, etc) expresses his own anger and frustrations with issues. I actually admire that believe it or not. Also how the site itself is not afraid to take a different look at issues and go against the grain.