friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:

proudblackconservative:

edwardspoonhands:

Because sometimes we forget that we hear a very narrow band of perspectives in our media because we often choose the voices and creators we most easily identify with. And if we only hear the same perspectives, those voices start to seem like the only ones that are legitimate…or that exist.

There are a lot of different perspectives in the U.S. and black people in particular have a very different American Experience than white people. So, listening to a diversity of voices might just be, I dunno, like…interesting? Enriching? Useful? All that stuff.

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I am black, and I subscribe to channels belonging to black people, white people, Americans, British people, Middle Eastern people, Christians, Sikhs, agnostics, straight, trans, gay, and plenty of people with lots of other treats I probably don’t know about. Do you know why I subscribe to these channels? Because they produce content that I find interesting. Now I guess as a black person my intellect is apparently far superior to that of white people, but something tells me that white people are equally capable of following channels based on their interest regardless of what the channel owner looks like, and thus brow beating people into following channels simply because they belong to black content producers is a fairly empty gesture that won’t serve to make anybody less racist, and naïvely assumes that people only subscribe to YouTube channels based on race.

A+. Encourage quality, not identity