WTF is Kamau Bell Doing? #WhitesAgainstTrump

W. Kamau Bell has advice for liberal white people to 'come and get your boy' and apparently doesn't regard it as offensive.  (Salon:  “Whites against Trump”: Kamau Bell tells white people — yes, even you good liberals — to “come get your boy”)

Note:  we always wonder about people who use an initial for a first name ... but that's for another time.  We observe he is from Berkeley and that may explain it.

Donald Trump is not 'my boy' any more than Ben Carson is some black guy's 'boy' and, here at the Rockhouse, we're coming up to a slow steam over this.  We don't see how fighting racism with more of it is going to help anyone.

In Bell's exposition, black people did a better job of slamming down Carson than whites have done with Trump.  I can't say I accept one group did better than the other even though I don't know any black people who support him.  The best voice I know for black people is a friend on Facebook whose history goes back to the Black Panthers and also with a whole lot of music (plus fishing).

My friend takes seriously his presentation of black history and a great many things about black culture I know I would not have otherwise seen.  The reason his contributions are continually interesting is he's not really trying to educate people so much as inform us and there's a substantial difference.  No-one likes being lectured but we have innate curiosity and the right presentation can even make the sex life of a liverwort interesting (yes, I have studied that in uni).

Note:  as to any 'racist' aspect to presenting black history, we see a major difference between 'racist' and 'racial' since white history means relatively little when black history is not a part of it.  My friend provides insights to that history which complete history as a whole rather than segregating one view of it.

My friend's rejection of Carson has nothing to do with racial positions but rather the utter worthlessness of Carson's campaign and the rampant flaws in his positions.  I've seen multiple people, me among them, doing the same thing with Trump, Carson, Cruz, the whole pack of them.  Lately there hasn't been much point because their litany hasn't significantly changed with nary a positive thought about anything in the lot of them.

Bell may well be off the mark with #WhitesAgainstTrump insofar as it may tend to marginalize #BlackLivesMatter.  We wholeheartedly support the latter, largely because it's a positive statement which is relative to everyone rather than #WhitesAgainstTrump which we see as the opposite.