Unverified Talk: Has Black Accountability Talk Gotten Out of Control?

Yes I'm unverified. I don't wanna hear it, if that's what you have to contribute kick rocks or come find out what I am.

Moving on... My post history in this subreddit is pretty cleanly divided into comments saying there is nothing wrong with black people, comments saying hey bitch they tricked you into thinking there's something wrong with black people check that, and smaller comments expressing concern over something I think we're missing as a community, random talk about women and actual dumb negro shit I enjoy.

On the first two, the past few days I've seen an uptick in sentiment around non-issues we're attempting to hold each other to account for. Specifically I'm talking about the unverifieds suggesting Keith Porter deserved to die because he bust his gun on NYE (a time honored American tradition more prevalent in white communities than black) and the idea that black boys aren't being allowed to play with Barbies for fear it will make them gay despite the fact that 1. they're playing with whatever they want when we aren't watching and 2. nothing makes gay people gay, they are what they are going to be.

But honestly, the conversation could be about so much more - Kamala not winning the Presidency and how it was framed as a moment to hold faulty black men to account for failing to do their unpaid job prescribed by no one, or how we're always accountable for how black folk of the diaspora view black Americans in full disregard of global dissemination of anti-black American propaganda.

Every day we attempt to hold each other to account for some whole new shit, some brand new but somehow prevalent and specific to black folk ill that we just cannot advance without addressing, and half the time it's bullshit. No one needs to care about this, and caring only divides out attention from the things we should be interested in. No one needs to be indoctrinated into the thinking black people in the US are more inherently problematic than anyone else, and yet we reintroduce and reinforce that idea everyday.

I've asked in specific circumstances, and I'm wondering broadly: fuckin why bro. Why are we always so apt to see eachother as the problem? Why are we so apt to see black wisdom as the flawed wisdom in the race of unprovable philosophy between what majority black folk feel and majority white folk feel. Why are we always second guessing what we've learned from each other the second we hear anything different from anyone else? Why don't we trust us? And why do we try to hold each other to account for other races rumors?

Whether we've talked welfare or violence or drug use of domestic abuse a lot of the "black people always doing _____ more than anybody else" has been provably untrue. And yet we still seek to hold each other to account for it. Why?