Let's See Cell Phones of Black Folks Calling Tucker Carlson Racist for 'It's Not How White Men Fight' Text
The leaked text message in which Tucker Carlson said the phrase “It’s not how white men fight” is supposed to convince people—who don’t need convincing anyway—that Tucker Carlson is a racist. I’m not buying it. Furthermore, I ask every black person caught up in this ongoing commitment to play on our emotions to do this one thing: Turn over your cell phones so we can get a look-see at your messages. Why? Because all black folks know the kinds of things black folks say in conversation with one another. So why the faux outrage here?
Lest I be accused of not putting the text in context, let’s take a look at Tucker’s text:
A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It's not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they'd hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn't good for me. I'm becoming something I don't want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I'm sure I'd hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn't gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don't care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?
This is a text message to a producer, one that Tucker expected to be private. Now, it’s everywhere. Actually, only some of it is everywhere. Some in the mainstream media don’t want you to see Tucker as the guy reflecting on his feelings and repenting for wishing even bad guys harm. So they end with him writing that he wanted the Antifa kid dead. Honestly, that omission is evil. They wonder, though, why they’ve earned the label “fake news” and “lamestream media.” They don’t want Tucker viewed positively, as human. They don’t want anyone who is the antithesis of their worldview seen as human. What they want, as always, is to exploit race, so they highlight what he said about white men and how they fight, assuming he is comparing how white men fight to how black men fight—honorably versus dishonorably, respectively. I don’t know if such a comparison was actually being made, and I don’t know exactly what Tucker meant, either, but really, that makes no difference to the point I am making.
This is why I have repeatedly said that “it’s a pointless conversation” whenever some racial situation arises and people begin to call for blacks and whites to sit down and talk things over. A conversation concerning race can only yield fruit if both sides are willing to be honest, and I know black folks, for the most part, are not willing to be that honest about race. They’re the same folks upset with me now for writing this—or will be in a moment after they read more of this column because, “Shhhhh, girl! You’re not supposed to say these things.” It’s true: most are not willing to talk about their own transgressions, their own mindsets, their own—I’ll say it—racism. They would rather repeat the mantra that black people cannot be racist because they don’t have the power to oppress. You’ve heard that assertion before, and you might have even bought into it. Get a refund; it’s nonsense. Black people can be some of the most racist people alive. But those people don’t want to admit that, preferring, instead, to rail against white people and their racism.
I say, “Hand over your cell phone!” It’s not rare for black people in conversation with one another to say things about how black people operate compared to how white people do. You’ll hear, “You know black folks don’t roll like that” or “You know that’s not how we do!” You might even hear it straight-up: “Only white folks would do some sh-t like that!” It’s said all the time, and I could give a million examples. Does that make those people racist—or just observant? If Tucker did, in fact, say, “It’s not how white men fight” as a way of comparing black people (whom he didn’t even mention) to white people, does even that make him a racist? Have we all not seen mobs of black people doing things nobody has any business doing? Don’t misunderstand. I’m not saying all white people are saints and that only black people act a fool, but I am saying we’d be lying if we acted like we haven’t seen the rolls and rolls of footage. I mean, God help us when Black Friday comes around, the doors of the store open, and there’s a limited pile of Air Jordans in the bin.
I don’t have any loyalty to Tucker Carlson. Believe me, if more texts or emails or evidence of any kind emerges that truly proves Tucker Carlson is a racist, I’ll be the first to call him out. But this “it’s not how white men fight” comment ain’t it. So in the meantime, hand over your cell phones, and let’s take a look.
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Very well stated. Thank you for speaking truth.
Adrienne, thank you for expressing so well the voice of reason. Thank you! Thank you!
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