This is Philip Wyeth. Looks like the hits keep on coming. Here we have an article
from the New York Times, "Reparations Happy Hour Invites White people to Pay
for Drinks." And of course, this takes place in Portland, Oregon, where I had the
fortune or misfortune of living for almost three years. "In Portland, Oregon,
organizers of the Reparations happy hour invited black, brown, and indigenous
people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived. A small but
symbolic gift, mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend."
That's incredible. The $10 bill has Alexander Hamilton's face,
by the way. Is that intentional? Ironic? I have no idea.
Okay, so "Brown Hope, a local activist organization, wanted the event to be a
space for people of color in a mostly white city to meet one another, discuss
policy issues, and plan potential action." Now, I just love these liberal newspapers...
"While it was far from the full scale reparations sought by some as penance
for the horrors of slavery and continuing racial injustice, Cameron
Whitten, the 27-year-old activist who organized the event, said there was one
similarity. It made attendees feel as if their pain were valued and understood."
I love these titles, activist, progressive, advocate. That's all the Left
has is these buzz words. Here's a quote, "It was only $10, but when I saw them I
saw their eyes light up. What I saw there was that people felt like they were
finally seen." And here's the thing, "I saw their eyes light up," this patronizing,
pretentious... like you're talking... you're putting hope into the mind of a
four-year-old child or something. And here's a tweet by Cameron, this is
incredible. "People of color are POWERFUL. Amazing turnout at Brown Hope's inaugural
reparations happy hour event." Okay, that phrase, "people of color are powerful."
Maybe. Maybe they are. Maybe they aren't. I don't know. But the point is that isn't
an argument. And this goes back to what I said in my last video discussing my two
books, "Reparations USA" and "Reparations Mind," how the Left is essentially just a
middle school pep rally. Rah rah rah rah. "You're great." "You're so great." "No,
you're great!!!" That doesn't mean anything. You have no ideas, you have no arguments,
you're just patting each other on the back. Okay, so Mr. Witten said "he
hoped the event, in addition to building community"--another completely meaningless
phrase--"building community, would call attention to the reparations the concept
that black people should be financially compensated for generations of trauma
that preceded them." See, my books are maybe not as ridiculous as some people
would think, because these events right now... Like today it's a happy hour, 2018...
What's gonna happen in 2020? What's the next thing? There's already been a
photograph I saw of people basically what wearing chains and holding
signs saying I'm sorry, and being led by black people in the streets. This
self-flagellation by white people, where does it end?
So maybe my books, which take place in 2028, under the premise that in 2024
a female Chinese American president gets elected, because of a Reparations
platform, and then it's implemented at 2025,
how off base am I, really? Maybe some of the finer details, and the fact that I
wrote it as a dystopian satire, but here's the main problem we're going to
encounter, because it's going to require a surveillance state. Or the surveillance
state is already here and will be harnessed to dole out reparations. In my
books you have everyday people of all races caught between the crossfire of
idealism and technology. Scrolling down the article, "Ron Daniels president of the
Institute of the Black World 21st Century, a group that supports
reparations, said they would be necessary for America to fully heal itself." Another
completely meaningless catch phrase. "Any efforts to bring attention to the idea,
including a happy hour bearing that name in Portland, could help people organize
around the issue--" Organize, another great throwaway word--"hopefully out of that
experience there's some education that takes place." Education, what does that
mean? A word without context. This is amazing, this is how the
Left is just gonna cannibalize itself. So "there was enough interest in the concept
to fund occasional happy hours for the rest of the year, though they will be
renamed Reparations Power Hour out of concern that the happy hour label was
unwelcoming to people who do not drink." This is glorious! Beautiful Leftist
insanity! Happy hour? No, it's a Power Hour. Why? Because it's unwelcoming to people
who don't drink! "Anticipating some criticism, he noted that it was not meant
to diminish the seriousness of reparations. Should anyone question why
white people were not invited, he said they'd show up by donating to make sure
the event happens. The final quote from Mr. Witten, "White people, we have love for
you and we're going to see you. We can't not see you. Once a month we're going to
have these two special hours that we cannot get anywhere else." That's just...
We can't not see you. Can you imagine if a white person dared to say
that about any other race? He would be mocked, pilloried, everything. But here, New
York Times, because they have an agenda, this story, a happy hour, gets put in the
New York Times, gets linked by Drudge, millions of people see it. Also of note,
in that tweet there were a couple responses. A guy named Christopher Thomas,
who's black, says, "It's silly for black folks to show up to have drinks paid for,
when we should be focused on group economics. Banking black, business
development, investing, and generational wealth. Those drinks are not going to
ensure that your children have a future." And then Sue Kelsey, aging white lady,
"It is a step in the right direction. Need to start somewhere." That is the problem with
people on the Left, who just feel like we have to do something, so even though it's
a completely meaningless, ineffective thing, you can say, "We're starting, we're
starting, we're taking steps." Christopher Thomas makes a nice reply,
"It's factually a step in the wrong direction. Don't reply to me with zero
understanding of the history of black folks in America. We empower ourselves by
aggregating our money, not sitting around, being around laughing and
getting free drinks. And if you look at the picture more
closely from this tweet of the people of event, you have two women kneeling,
holding hands almost in an Asian pose. Didn't a white high school girl take
flack last month for wearing a Chinese prom dress and assuming the position?
Is that not cultural appropriation by these women of color? Or maybe we need a mobile
DNA test to see who's allowed to do what at what times? You know, the truth is I,
like most white people, we probably don't even care if you want to have an event,
social event do what you want. Take any kind of zany, silly photos you want. The
problem is it's the people on the Left who are buzzing around everything like
gnats. You're forcing us to quote unquote get involved, and you're not gonna like
what we have to say. As Alex from the channel "These Things I Believe" talked
about in a recent livestream, what are we going to do about all the people who were
born 100 or 125 years ago, who were cryogenically frozen in the past, how
racist are they by modern standards? Should we really allow them to spew
their hatred after we find a cure for their illnesses? Alex thinks we'd be
better off thawing them out right now and letting them rot in the Arizona sun.
So look at what you on the Left are bringing into reality. White guys who
just want to be left alone are now entering the fray, taking your stupid
arguments to their logical or illogical end points, because apparently we have to
rub your noses in it for you to understand. If so-called progressives are
even capable of nuance, metaphor, or god forbid, humor. So I'm just gonna wrap this
up by saying if you want to have social events and push your political agenda
forward, that's fine, do whatever you want. But take the eagle's
view for a minute and think about the demographic shifts in this country going
on right now. The Latino population in particular is much larger than it was 10
to 20 years ago, and it's only getting bigger. They don't have any white guilt.
What are you gonna do, if you're calling for reparations, when say, 10, 15, or 20
years from now, Latinos have a lot of political power and they have no white
guilt? They are not gonna listen to your cries for Reparations. Yeah, so maybe you
have 5-10 years to extract as much money, guilt, and public displays of humiliation
by liberal white people before this all ends. But I do want to say that my
two books, they're not as incendiary as maybe you would think, and I have
characters of all races who are very sympathetic. And I actually have created
a religion in the book called Modestianity, which essentially addresses some
of the bigger existential and spiritual problems we are all facing. And I'm
really trying to offer a constructive way forward out of this malaise we're in.
Because with outsourcing, AI, potential of UBI, people are gonna have nothing to do.
And if we have no spiritual values, no religion, and the surveillance state is
our future... It's just going to be everybody playing gotcha, trying to dig some dirt
up on each other, and humiliate each other online. Is that really the future
we want? And that's why I'm really suspect of this Reparations push or
sentiment, because it's only going to lead to more revenge and anger. It's not
going to build bridges and heal, like all these buzzwords talk about. If you're
interested, read my books. The first one's free as an e-book on iTunes and Barnes
and Noble. You can see that I am trying to push through the current day
malaise and really try to find a constructive solution, or at least
philosophical ideas to help us get past the sniping and urges for revenge.
Because the elites, they're all just laughing at us, they love for us to fight
and not get along. Thanks for listening.
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