🤔I thought "tilting at windmills" was just a saying!
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I thought "tilting at windmills" was just a saying! But here's Trump, doing it sincerely, talking about "China has no wind farms!"
️When Trump spewed hate at Black people it was supposed to be funny. Everyone joked along.
Now he spews hate at white people too, we're supposed to say it's serious?
2023:
"Why are African nations so eager to trade with China? They're being foolish! They should be all in on the USA! Silly Africans! Poor decision making skills!"2026:
"We must decrease dependence on the US! They don't like us! We must strengthen our relationship with China! I am very smart!"
Some of y'all ask me, in all seriousness, why some African nations prefer to trade with China. Don't the African countries know that China is the "bad guys" and we are the "good guys?"
I think that these questions come from a fundamental inability to see the world from the perspective of Africans.
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I thought "tilting at windmills" was just a saying! But here's Trump, doing it sincerely, talking about "China has no wind farms!"️
When Trump spewed hate at Black people it was supposed to be funny. Everyone joked along.
Now he spews hate at white people too, we're supposed to say it's serious?
2023:
"Why are African nations so eager to trade with China? They're being foolish! They should be all in on the USA! Silly Africans! Poor decision making skills!"2026:
"We must decrease dependence on the US! They don't like us! We must strengthen our relationship with China! I am very smart!"Some of y'all ask me, in all seriousness, why some African nations prefer to trade with China. Don't the African countries know that China is the "bad guys" and we are the "good guys?"
I think that these questions come from a fundamental inability to see the world from the perspective of Africans.
"Trump derangement syndrome" is just the latest version of what y'all call it when Black Americans are right about something at least 5 or 10 years before white Americans.
️There's a fundamental inability to benefit from the amazingly accurate prediction machine that is Black folk in the US.
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Because if you truly believe yourself to be more clever than almost all Black people...
And almost all Black people are flagging concern about something that you don't think is that big of a deal...
Then you assume that it must be because Black people's reasoning is flawed or not rigorous enough.
It's hard to have the humility to say, "
If Black people are just as smart as white people, and Black folk almost uniformly see a danger that white folk don't see?It might be because Black folk are basing their decision on facts and data that white folk don't have access to. What is that data?"
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I thought "tilting at windmills" was just a saying! But here's Trump, doing it sincerely, talking about "China has no wind farms!"️
When Trump spewed hate at Black people it was supposed to be funny. Everyone joked along.
Now he spews hate at white people too, we're supposed to say it's serious?
2023:
"Why are African nations so eager to trade with China? They're being foolish! They should be all in on the USA! Silly Africans! Poor decision making skills!"2026:
"We must decrease dependence on the US! They don't like us! We must strengthen our relationship with China! I am very smart!"Some of y'all ask me, in all seriousness, why some African nations prefer to trade with China. Don't the African countries know that China is the "bad guys" and we are the "good guys?"
I think that these questions come from a fundamental inability to see the world from the perspective of Africans.
@mekkaokereke I was in China fall 2024 during a huge conference with African nations, and also saw amazing windmills from admirable train systems. Meanwhile...what you said...
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"Trump derangement syndrome" is just the latest version of what y'all call it when Black Americans are right about something at least 5 or 10 years before white Americans.
️There's a fundamental inability to benefit from the amazingly accurate prediction machine that is Black folk in the US.
🧙️Because if you truly believe yourself to be more clever than almost all Black people...
And almost all Black people are flagging concern about something that you don't think is that big of a deal...
Then you assume that it must be because Black people's reasoning is flawed or not rigorous enough.
It's hard to have the humility to say, "
If Black people are just as smart as white people, and Black folk almost uniformly see a danger that white folk don't see?It might be because Black folk are basing their decision on facts and data that white folk don't have access to. What is that data?"
@mekkaokereke
"It might be because Black folk are basing their decision on facts and data that white folk don't have access to. What is that data?"It's not the data, it's the filters.
One of the filters is a communication gap between black and white Americans. I've been learning to listen more over the last couple decades. Black twitter was life-changing back in the day.
Thank you.
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I thought "tilting at windmills" was just a saying! But here's Trump, doing it sincerely, talking about "China has no wind farms!"️
When Trump spewed hate at Black people it was supposed to be funny. Everyone joked along.
Now he spews hate at white people too, we're supposed to say it's serious?
2023:
"Why are African nations so eager to trade with China? They're being foolish! They should be all in on the USA! Silly Africans! Poor decision making skills!"2026:
"We must decrease dependence on the US! They don't like us! We must strengthen our relationship with China! I am very smart!"Some of y'all ask me, in all seriousness, why some African nations prefer to trade with China. Don't the African countries know that China is the "bad guys" and we are the "good guys?"
I think that these questions come from a fundamental inability to see the world from the perspective of Africans.
Western European nations, too, have plenty of delusions about their place in the world - what they imagine themselves to be and how they actually act, vs. how the many countries they have historically exploited actually see them.
I still support the #EuropeanUnion - it's been a tremendous boon to smaller European nations who have traditionally been on the receiving end of the Imperialism of the Great Powers.
But we are not the "shining beacon" of human rights and freedoms we imagine ourselves to be.
