“One of the Good Ones” Should Be a Term for Good White People
I’ve been told a few times in life that I’m One of the Good Ones.
That, along with the usual:
You’re so well-spoken and articulate. You don’t sound Black. You’re so educated and clean.
Those kinds of underhanded compliments are always par for the course; even Joe Biden couldn’t help himself in 2007 when describing then-presidential candidate Barack Obama as ‘articulate’ and ‘clean.’
We know the world doesn’t view Black people as good people overall.
Centuries of negative propaganda continue to morph into new stereotypes, causing fear, resentment, and White rage to be directed towards all Black people.
Seventy-five percent of White people don’t have a real Black friend.
That’s 248 million White people who have no personal relationships with anyone outside of their White circles.
If the majority gets their ideas about Black people only through entertainment and news, it makes sense why they’d view us in a negative way.
However, we see and experience their negativity all the time.
