Why I’m No Longer Talking to Black People About Race & George Floyd
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Why I’m No Longer Talking to Black People About Race & George Floyd
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Narrated by:
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J Allan Lewis
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By:
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Oliver Gemmel
Summary
The black-and-white truth about racism.
Think you understand racism and what is really going on in America in 2020? Think again. Why I’m No Longer Talking to Black People About Race & George Floyd is a must-have for anyone who really wants to understand racism and the chaos that has erupted in America since George Floyd's death.
An honest and no "BS" perspective on everything from George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, Trump, black and white supremacy, the N-word, and everything in between. Oliver Gemmel's refreshing and objective perspective challenges the preconceived ideas that the vast majority of people have been coerced into believing by the guileful media.
The audiobook is in many ways a response to Reni Eddo-Lodge's critically acclaimed best seller Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race; however, it focuses primarily on present-day race issues in America. Gemmel also explains how Black America have been involuntary brainwashed into the "Oppression complex", forever enslaving themselves and further extending the divide between Black and White.
Oliver Gemmel is blunt and straight to the point with his arguments and is one of the very few authors who does not write from a left or right political viewpoint. If you don't like your views being challenged by logic and reason, then this audiobook is not for you. This is, in every respect, the Black and White truth about racism in America.
“In other words they bring up the past and history to support their view in today’s world; so it’s a vicious cycle of backing up today’s issues with evidence from the past. It almost becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.”
©2020 Darren Scott (P)2020 Darren ScottFurther.stats.should.have.been.used.for.a.broader.and.more.realistic.representation.of.the.black.culture.
Many.of.the.points.highlighted.were.not.dissected.well, which.resulted.in.a.fairly.one-sided.view.
Many.things.that.were.presented.as.facts.were.just.totally.incorrect.and.written.from.the.mind.of.someone.who.clearly.has.no.real.understanding. of.what.racism.is,how.it.started.
Frustrating.to.hear.someone.give.an.opinion.on.something.they.could.never.experience.or.understand. 👎🏽
I.was.interested.to.hear.another.viewpoint. Now i'm.unhappy.i wasted.a token.
Ignorant and disagreeable at many points!
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Wasted hour
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I was hoping for a balanced view on the other side of this race discussion after reading ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People’. I was thoroughly disappointed and left wanting … again! Story of my life!
I really resonated with ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race’ by Reni Eddo-Lodge because what she talked about is mostly what I’ve experienced. Dismissing, vilifying, downgrading is all too real. I have been the best in the class with all my peers checking their answers against mine and yet been downgraded. Don’t talk to me about trying harder. Whatever I do, I get very few breaks. Being passed over when you’re equally qualified to do a task is disheartening.
This is where the book starts. ‘Black people have an Inferiority Complex’. Why is that? Yes, it can very well ‘be in our past and they don’t need to dwell on it anymore’, but it’s very much in the present. ‘We haven’t got father figures, because they’re all in prison’? That’s an amazing sweeping statement at best. I’m not part of that supposed statistic the author has given. I was part of the statistic that black people are the highest percentage per head working in the Care Sector. Look it up. Why is that? Because we’re not given a fighting chance in other professional industries. For example, in Engineering, over 1/4 Blacks have First Class degrees and yet under 1/10 are actually in the industry.
There seems to be no humility, questioning, curiosity or personal reflection in this author’s narrative. Instead I find ignorance and arrogance, explaining what Black people need to do to get ahead, wrapped up in a bandage of ‘I know it all’ and handed over in a suitcase of convenience to make him, and other people like him, feel better, patting themselves on the back for a good job well done. As we Black people would say, “Mr. Gemmel, it not go so.”
You see, Mr. Gemmel, the Race issue is not just a Black person’s problem. It’s everyone’s problem. If a person has played by the rules and still gets ignored, vilified, dismissed, scapegoated, because of something they cannot ultimately change about themselves (that’s why we have the Equality Act, by the way), what is that person to do? And if a person doesn’t play by the rules but gets away with discriminating others, being allowed to display unacceptable behaviour or carry out unsavoury actions, what are we to do?
The trouble is people will believe what the author has written and take it as the whole Gospel truth when many of us Black people are not living like he’s said at all. It’s really annoying having to justify our stance, but I feel I had to stand up to your false narration of the situation, Mr. Gemmel.
The perpetuation of the beliefs in this book will be harmful to the society at large. You have done a disservice to your fellow man, Mr. Gemmel. Shame on you!
Walk a mile in my shoes…
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