Scrolling through my timeline I come across many things. Most entertaining, some insightful and informative, some funny, others just straight foolish. It's rare that I am unable to put my finger on how a post makes me feel. In fact I don't think it's ever happened, until now.
There was a recent video post by CNN that I stared at blankly even after the video was finished playing. I sat there for a few seconds then pressed replay. I then played it three more times. The video was a 15 second clip of a black male attending a KKK cross lighting. As he watches the fire burn on a cross he says "I respect the fact that you let me come out here and I also respect the fact that you let me leave".
This video is a promo for a new 8 part series on the CNN network titled, United Shades. It follows man in the promo, comedian W. Kamau Bell, as he explores communities across the country and uses comedy to start conversations about race and how our differences unite and divide us. In the premiere episode which aired on Sunday April 24th, Bell meets the supposed "new" Klu Klux Klan (side eye).
I have many emotions running through me as I reflect on the first episode of this new series. The most apparent is anger. The KKK no matter what it supposedly stands for now, stood for complete and utter hatred for the non-white race. This organization has brewed a concentration of evil and has left brutalized bodies, rape, murder, lynching, hanging, bombing, skinning, beheading and torture in it's wake. But yet the United States allows this group and what they have represented to freely practice? And now news leader CNN is promoting this culture of hate to the world to get us to try to understand them better?
And for a black man being open to understanding this representation as well? The "new" KKK that according to this series believes Jews are a dirty race and interracial marriage is an abomination higher than murder (I can't make this up if I tried).
What is your take on this matter? Sound off. I would like to hear your opinion. Need more of a visual? Check out a 30 second snip-it below.
Nowadays they will do anything for ratings. smh
ReplyDeleteFunny I don't see Nazi groups being able to burn swastika's but yet they will allow a black hating group to burn away.
ReplyDeleteIt's a true disgrace to highlight something so negative. There is nothing to understand! They should be shut down!
ReplyDeleteBut the black panthers were a problem that had to be stopped right? lol
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