Comment on No one wonders why the music that is promoted in the black community is so violent? by crimsonmvestro

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crimsonmvestro · 4/30/2025, 4:21:24 PM · permalink

I do believe that the music we make is a reflection of our surroundings. The things we experience and feel bleeds into the things we create. Being that my generation of black people are only 4 generations removed from actual slavery, a lot of that generational trauma has been passed down into present day.  
  
I think that, plus the systemic poverty we are placed into after birth, cultimates into the culture you see today in the black community. A lot of the problems we have are typically masked with some form of monetary gain, or social status. The only way to fix these problems is through therapy in my opinion. That's why I think reparations should be free therapy and land, not a check. We see where the culture is, and we can tell what would happen if we were just given a blank check.   
  
My people are suffering from things that happened to our ancestors still. I was recently listening to Kendrick Lamar's second to latest album (Mr.Moral and the Big Steppers) and it is essentially tracklist of therapy sessions. There is a therapist named Ekhart Tolle that is featured throughout the album. He speaks on the concept of something he came up with called "The Pain Body". I believe a lot of black people suffer from their own pain bodies, and that pain started with our ancestors 4 generations ago. That leads to the music and culture we have today.

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j.k.harwood2 · 5/1/2025, 6:09:12 AM · permalink

A lot has been said about the suffering of so-called “Native Americans” in the U.S. and Canada. And while history includes broken treaties and real hardship, it's time we stop pretending that everyone claiming ancestral injustice today is a victim.

Let’s be clear:

Many are not suffering injustice—they’re imposing it.

On taxpayers.

On the truth.

And on every American who refuses to be divided by race, guilt, or manipulated history.

Today’s grievance industry is often less about healing and more about control.It pushes narratives designed to fracture national unity and exploit past suffering for present gain—land, status, tax exemptions, political clout, and cultural superiority.

Meanwhile, the truth is buried.

No one is “native” in the biological or historical sense.

DNA and archaeology confirm that all people came from somewhere else.

Tribal conquest existed long before Europeans arrived—full of war, displacement, and enslavement.

But we don’t talk about that, do we? Because it doesn’t serve the narrative.

Victimhood has become a currency.But identity built on victimhood is a prison.

If we want unity, we need truth.Not tribal superiority. Not ancestral guilt. Not eternal reparations.Truth.

And here’s the truth they don’t want told:

You are not responsible for what your ancestors didn’t do.And you don’t owe anyone your silence, your land, or your guilt.

This is still a free country.And the future belongs to those who stop bleeding for the past and start building something real.

We are Americans.Not tribes.Not victims.Not pawns.

And it’s time we stop apologizing for standing on the truth.

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crimsonmvestro · 5/1/2025, 12:53:25 PM · permalink

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j.k.harwood2 · 5/1/2025, 9:05:39 PM · permalink

No one is saying people can’t speak out about history.

What I am saying is that the history being weaponized today isn’t the full truth—it’s a curated narrative meant to trap people in perpetual grievance.

Colonization happened.

But so did tribal warfare, conquest, slavery, and displacement—long before any Europeans arrived.

Unity doesn't require forgetting the past. It requires telling all of it—and refusing to live chained to it.

America is a construct, you're right.

But it's also the only nation in human history built explicitly on the idea that all men are created equal—by God, not government.

And that Truth has pulled more people from darkness to dignity than any empire, ideology, or tribe in recorded history.

You say “unity won’t come until atonement is made.”

But here’s the real question:

Who defines “atonement”? And when is it ever enough?

Reparations? Land transfers? Eternal guilt?

That’s not atonement. That’s control wrapped in virtue.

True atonement already happened—at the cross.

It doesn’t ask for your land, your bloodline, or your silence.

It asks for your heart.

And from that place of forgiveness, restoration can begin—not through force, but through faith.

Until then, forced unity isn’t unity at all.

It’s compliance.

So no—I won’t apologize for calling out a lie.

And I won’t stop speaking truth to systems that profit from keeping people angry and divided.

I’ll keep standing for a future where your children and mine can walk free—not as victims of history, but as citizens of a nation worth building together.

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