No, the “Black community” isn’t doing any such thing. The same race hustlers and grifters who find racist “dog whistles” in whole milk, punctuality, merit, et al. may be, but mostly it’s white progs presuming to speak for their exotic pets, whom they feel are too dumb to be outraged on their own.

The reason I’m “not listening” to those who, like you, have decided that the song means what *they can make it mean* — cynically, dishonestly, and in an attempt to turn a tight-knit community’s rejection of astroturfed “protests” that manifest in criminality into “racism” or “violence” — is that I can listen to and watch the primary text itself and interpret it without the dishonest baggage a bunch of leftwing thugs bent on canceling any speech that doesn’t meet their requirements for acceptable substance larding it down.

I don’t need your hermeneutic gatekeeping. And not only do I not need it, but I find it presumptuous, cynical, fraudulent, and purposely fraught in an attempt to create a phony narrative that rides on the backs of Blacks in the much the same way slave masters did in earlier years…

No, the “Black community” isn’t doing any such thing. The same race hustlers and grifters who find racist “dog whistles” in whole milk, punctuality, merit, et al. may be, but mostly it’s white progs presuming to speak for their exotic pets, whom they feel are too dumb to be… https://t.co/VlaOkTBvXz

— Mulder’s Long Fight for Account Reinstatement (@proteinwisdom) July 22, 2023

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