>>2499703>Not sure if it's just my algo psyoping me, but I've been getting an increased amount of black people/influencers with 50k+ likes denouncing Palestine and Palestinian liberation, on the basis that their cause is irrelevant to black struggle and it's a slave mentality since support for Palestine is predominantly white.Alright but the polling data on this apparently shows black Americans in general are far more supportive of Palestine than white Americans, or at least less supportive of Israel (in general). There's a bunch of them who don't give a shit either way, but you ask black people in America whether supporting Israel is super important to them, 95% say "no." There is a sizeable number of largely white Evangelicals who will answer "yes" to that. You can look this up or ask ChatGPT to give you some studies. So that's the first problem with your post, you're drawing out generalizations based on some propaganda (which can be paid for) you're getting on your feed. Polls aren't perfect but it's at least a bit more "scientific."
>Obviously this doesn't just apply to black people, I just think it's the most pronounced; that "hustler" mindset, this idea that personal gain is revolutionary even, seems to be engrained in black culture.On the surface, yes, but it's actually a materialist way of looking at things in a way. What's important for survival? Money and resources. Okay it's oriented differently in a society where capitalist values are overwhelming and it's highly individualistic and competitive, but… gib me some of dat. People respond to material pressures, and I'm not sure hustling means allegience to the "system" necessarily. Like you can just take the money.
>All ties back to slavery; black people came to America as property, not "workers". there's like a subconscious fear after generations of trauma that any collective action is against their best interest. Yeah I don't think that's true at all. Or maybe we define collectivism differently, but I don't know how you read about the history of American radicalism and miss that the backbone of radicals have usually been minority community men, many of them emigres to this country, and blacks. That whole BLM thing? That very much came out of a tradition (relatively longstanding) of black communal solidarity openly confronting the authorities and daring them to shoot them down. The substance of their demands might have been pragmatic (justice for George Floyd) and not wholly implemented, and the supply of aggrieved militant minorities in the U.S. has thinned out compared to the past, but look at everybody else.