Black: The invisible color

How infantilising the black community erased its presence where most needed

Mar 28, 2025

Mother and Daughter – Laura Wheeler Waring, c.1927

Black. Black. Black. When you think of black you think of mistreatment. When you think of black you think of revolution. When you think of black, you look to the past.

Here is a cold fact: Blacks are the lowest of social classes in America.

This is not because of some inherent physiological differences. We will however skip the seemingly mandatory, apologetic farce, that is fed and ventriloquized to us. It is not due to systemic racism, nor is it due to the residue effects of slavery.

Is the U.S. biased towards its white population? Absolutely

There is no denying that racism or preferentialism exist. A recent example has made that clear. On December 22nd, Sriram Krishnam was confirmed by President Trump to serve as senior policy advisor for artificial intelligence at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. This benign confirmation caused a full-blown rift within the Republican Party. The reason for the infighting being Sriram’s previous advocacy for a higher H1B visa cap—which has led to nepotistic accusations of wanting to allocate sought after American jobs to high-IQ Indian immigrants.

America is based on the idea of meritocracy. That anyone can make it if they just work hard enough. This is true. You can measure outcomes based on the amount of work one has put behind it. We could for instance predict exam scores based on the hours studied with the linear regression calculation.

$y = a + b x$

Therefore, should my grade be lower than hoped the sole reason would be my lack of study. In a meritocratic system you only have yourself to blame for your failures. By the same token, a meritocratic system limits the empathy winners may have. “Why should I,” they may ask themselves, “if my fortune is due to my own hard work?”

The meritocratic ideal is not a remedy for inequality; it is a justification of inequality.

Michael J. Sandel — The Tyranny of Merit

Again, America is meritocratic, but not fair. For instance, children whose parents are in the top 1% of the income distribution are 77 times more likely to attend an Ivy League college than those whose parents are in the bottom quintile. This coupled with the fact that children from low and high income families have similar earnings outcome conditional to the college they attend is enough to destroy any semblance of fairness. Unless one is an idiot and believes rich kids work harder than poor kids, it is clear that while America is meritocratic, we do not all start at the same place. Two lazy students, one from a rich school and another for a poor school, will end up in different places.

Returning to the H1B visas, republicans have for years campaigned against DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) and affirmative action policies, claiming these were not only unfair, but also racist towards Whites. Only the most competent applicant should be hired, with complete disregard to race and sex. As the H1B debacle revealed, many of them were lying.

With President Trump coming into office in January, his campaign supporters, namely Elon Musk, started to vocalise changes they would like to see implemented. One of these directly impacts his businesses—the hiring of foreign talent, which would allow American companies to poach global talent all the while paying a lower salary than what the local workforce would request. Foreign workers, almost always male, are also more willing to disregard their work life balance and less likely to leave or voice their concerns. Musk companies, along with many other tech companies, reflect these hiring proclivities.

Ultimately, these hiring decisions are made on competence, willingness to work hard, and education. Asians tend to rank higher for all of these requisites. There is an obvious lack of Black representation, but only the lack of White representation alarmed the MAGA subsects, whose distaste for illegal immigration was already evident but the extension to legal immigration came as a surprise to many. Despite clarifications that this additional hiring is meant to target only the top 0.1% of talent worldwide, MAGA supporters insist these jobs could and should be filled by white Americans. Republicans do not hate DEI, they hate displacement.

A third time for those in the back, America is meritocratic, but not fair. However, if you work hard you will make it. Asians have consistently demonstrated this fact. Chinese people, whether Americans or immigrated, work harder than Whites, and also have a higher income than Whites. Japanese too, and so forth. This fact was easy to ignore due to the fetishisation of East Asians by many people. Now with Indians doing even better than the Chinese, and this by hard work all the while being subject to a higher racial prejudice than Blacks, destroys any victimhood credibility. It is time for us to look really hard in the mirror, and ask ourselves, why are we really being left behind in all the industries that matter. If your answer is because of racism, then you have learnt nothing.

What, and who is to blame?

Performative culture and white women.

“There were a million black boys last year that wanted to play in the NBA, of that million only 400,000 will even make it to play high school ball, of that 400,000 only 4,000 will be able to make it to play college ball, of that 4,000 only 35 will make it to the NBA, of that 35 only seven start, and the average life in the NBA is 4 years.
So the real problem is we have a million Brothers looking for seven full-time jobs than the last four years, and yet last year we had 100,000 jobs available to be a computer programmer engineer or doctor and only a thousand Brothers qualified.
So our appeal to black males is to realize the odds that that you do most will be that that you do best, I mean we were the first doctors, not Hippocrates, in such, so we have the ability either in math or science or music and sports.
For that that you do most, be that that you do best, if you play basketball from 3:00 to 9:00 you'd be a very good basketball player, if you went home and went to the library you'd be a very good scholar.
We need more black male role models that will encourage our youth in math and science.”

Blacks are not being represented in high-paying jobs, not because of racism, but because of the prioritisation towards being seen. The current state of the culture is analogous to the clown kid in the classroom who only wishes to be accepted. We must entertain, be it with a ball in hand or a microphone does not matter much. Loud, superior and profane. The culture cannot be criticised, because it is our identity. But is it really our identity, or an initial fight to feel good enough that became prolonged over far too many decades? We are now stuck in this arc. If you put an African and a Black American side by side you will see little cultural similitude. And yet, this I must be visible predisposition is now recognised as the base of our identity. This acceptance is no better than forcing ourselves to become the clown of the classroom in order for people to like us. Yes, it does allow for a small minority to become incredibly wealthy, but without the cultural normalisation of money management. A Sports Illustrated article reports that 78% of NFL players and 60% of NBA players face serious financial hardships after retirement.1

[Verse 1: Kanye West]
My mama was raised in the era when
Clean water was only served to the fairer skin
Doin' clothes, you would've thought I had help
But they wasn't satisfied unless I picked the cotton myself
You see it's broke nigga racism
That's that, "Don't touch anything in the store"
And it's rich nigga racism
That's that, "Come in, please buy more"
"What you want, a Bentley? Fur coat? A diamond chain?
All you blacks want all the same things"
Used to only be niggas, now everybody playin'
Spendin' everything on Alexander Wang
New slaves

There is one group that has held our hand tightly during this decadence. White women. Yes, you heard me right. Let me repeat, white women—where’s the camera—yes, you. In the last two decades white activist women have caused more damage to black people than the whole ensemble of racist people. (Not all WW, but always WW.) Their fortunate position in society has lead them to search for injustices elsewhere, and have become the spokesperson for a whole array of different groups. This is not a bad thing in itself, but despite assertions, being unable to understand the distinctiveness of each group means their sole motivating force is pity. I know what my parents would have said if I was behind, work harder than the rest. Some time ago, along with rise of Marvel movies, they became cemented as the guiding force for minorities. They convinced many children and adults to put blame on external circumstances. They lead the march of victimhood. They fanned the flames of outrage. Their pernicious advocacy have caused many ills to Blacks, but also other minority communities. BUT we can no longer put blame elsewhere. You got discriminated out there? Tough luck. Look at that white trans man struggle through life. Or that obese white woman. Or that insecure Filipino with a face full of pimples. Everyone goes through difficulties in life, no matter who you are.

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

Thomas Sowell

Or else

We all have noticed the rise of casual racism. I see it every day on X. There is a growing comfort in radical outspokenness. This rise is relative to the decrease of wokeism. President Trump’s election victory was a clear chapter turn and it cannot be ignored. A point is coming where even our popularity in media consumption will not be enough to shield us from the growing antagonism should we keep leading the statistics in crime rate, and not equal our peers in academia without resorting to affirmative action. This is something we have been stagnant on for to long, mostly because of the entitlement fed to us by people who will bear no consequences. We cannot be left behind, further and further.

While this essay focuses on the negative aspects, we are not lacking in positive representation. We simply need to give them the proper visibility in order to inspire others. Here is some appreciation for the famous economist–who is still alive today at 94 years old, Thomas Sowell.

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