Roland does a pretty good job actually. I've listened to him over the years. He knows his facts in terms of the various administrations and what they are doing or not doing. He's actually a decent journalism in bringing out certain government policies, etc.
He also calls out systemic racism and white supremacy. However, his biggest flaw is he is a Democratic party shill. The Dems have done too much BS and he (and other Black Dems) come off as hypocrites when they only criticize Republicans and gloss over Dem problems.
The advantage we have is that we are not beholden to any party so the 'What about the Democrats?' counter doesn't work. He also needs to control his emotion a bit and I say that just in terms of style, but its a side issue.
Patrick Bet-David is one of those immigrant white boys who caught a lick and got rich and thinks 'If I can and people from my nation can, you guys (Blacks) aren't trying hard enough. He made his money (about 200 mil net worth) doing a sort of MLM (multi level marketing) Insurance company. One of his people stopped me in a parking lot once and invited me to a 'free seminar'. I actually went out of curiosity just to see what it was about, I already knew it was going to be MLM. The hard sell happened after, they put me in a room with some Nigerian-American brother, cool guy, he said he left a 100k a year Engineering job to do this full time and we had a good discussion but I'm not going to do that stuff. I don't do MLM. Nothing against it but I went to see if I could learn anything new.
The guys like him are the most dangerous to black progress because they have no history with us in America so have zero guilt and often no knowledge or a skewed knowledge of the history of the Black struggle in America.
Anyway, Roland would actually make a good advocate if he wasn't so much of a bootlick Dem who wants to be a Dem party insider. Bet-David had no real response. He was doing the deflection thing and he got killed. I doubt it will happen but my hope is the debate opened his eyes a bit. Won't happen but at least he knows he can't come with that BS. I have heard him talk about conservative issues, black issues when its only him and his side kick and no one to counter him. Whenever these white boys get a person who can counter punch their talking points they start doing white supremacy tactics of deflection, gas lighting, etc. I've experienced it myself. Had a debate with a white boy a couple years ago about reparations. He even tried to say Obama gets it, his dad is African and mom white blah, blah. And I said 'No'. And I said I wouldn't and he countered with why should you care. Er..its the right thing to do, its deserved. It's like asking why should I care if the Japanese or Jews got reparations. You don't ask non Jews and Japanese that? And I am tangentially affected because I face the same anti Blackness. More blacks with an economic base, the more as a collective we can protect ourselves from systemic anti black racism which affects all of us.
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