Going to copy paste my question every time yakubposting comes up until I get an answer:
I'm so sorry to ask this, but I've been trying to find an answer and have not. Can I get a run-down on what makes Yakub-posting so bad? The NOI itself is obviously problematic, the concepts the Yakub myth is based on are phrenological and race/bioessentialist absurdity, I see that. But that point about "NOI didn't fully believe the story but used it as a way to discuss race relations" is pretty clear; people who had that exact kind of 19th century "scientific" racism violently imposed upon them grappling with the concepts underlying it and talking about their suffering. Like, while I would not do it and am no fan of the NOI, I refuse to condemn any black person who uses that language to express their pain about what white people have done to them.
I don't use it because I'm not black, and I have some discomfort with the false history and race science aspects in it. The possible explanations I could come up with from my searching about why it's problematic are:
- I was walking with a then-friend (white) many years ago and we saw a Black Israelite preaching in the street about how white people were created by the devil or something. I didn't grasp exactly what he said but it sounded similar. She bristled at the "reverse racism". I was more nonchalant about it but still uncomfortable. I would be utterly shocked if "yakubposting is racist against white people" is the problem with yakubposting.
- it looks like 4channers picked up Yakub and were Yakubposting to be racist against black people, mocking a story that only existed because of how brutally black people are oppressed in the first place. But are people here yakubposting to mock black people? Or are they doing it to mock oppressors?
So, I'm confused, and would like to learn what it is I'm missing here.
Thanks for sharing, that's hilarious :D