Uncle Tom or Entitled to Your Own Opinion: Going Against Your Race on Camera

The McKinney Pool Party incident not only put police brutality into the forefront yet again but exposed a long-known foe of the black community – the Uncle Tom. Many black people didn’t like how certain black people were so willing to go on camera and in front of the world to support the police, suggest that the teens got what they deserved or take up for the whites involved in the incident. Basically, black folks were pretty pissed at the blacks who went against other blacks publicly.

We have long spoken of the token black, the Uncle Tom and the other various names for the black people who seem to go along with the white folks to the chagrin and dismay of their own people. Why can’t we stick together? Why are you trying so hard to please the white man who doesn’t care about you? These are some of the most common questions to these race betrayers.

Just because you disagree with your race, do you have to be a sell-out? What if these people were actual eyewitnesses or had inside information and this was their perception? Are you allowed to have a different viewpoint? After all, black folks aren’t one monolithic, homogenous group so it should go without saying that we will have differences of opinion.

So, let us know what you think. Was calling out these blacks right? Do we all have to share the same opinion? If it were you, would you have gone on camera as going against your race?

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