Black Protests Have Lost Power

Interesting trend:

The recent protests by black players in the National Football League were rather sad for their fruitlessness. They may point to the end of an era for black America, and for the country generally—an era in which protest has been the primary means of black advancement in American life.

There was a forced and unconvincing solemnity on the faces of these players as they refused to stand for the national anthem. They seemed more dutiful than passionate, as if they were mimicking the courage of earlier black athletes who had protested…

For the NFL players there was no real sacrifice, no risk and no achievement…

It is not surprising, then, that these black football players would don the mantle of protest. The surprise was that it didn’t work. They had misread the historic moment. They were not speaking truth to power. Rather, they were figures of pathos, mindlessly loyal to a black identity that had run its course.

What they missed is a simple truth that is both obvious and unutterable: The oppression of black people is over with…

Watching the antics of Black Lives Matter is like watching people literally aspiring to black victimization, longing for it as for a consummation.

But the NFL protests may be a harbinger of change. They elicited considerable resentment. There have been counterprotests. TV viewership has gone down. Ticket sales have dropped…

The NFL protests reveal the fundamental obsolescence—for both blacks and whites—of a victim-focused approach to racial inequality.

The article is behind a paywall, but it was copied en toto here. It basically is a black professor lamenting that the protests today are half-hearted, and have vastly less effect.

I view it in the context of this:

President Trump on Wednesday touted the country’s plummeting unemployment rate — and for the fourth time in a week took credit for the historically low jobless rate among African-Americans.

“Unemployment is at a 17-year low and I’m very proud of this. African-American unemployment reached its lowest level in history. Think of that,” the president said at the White House.

The unemployment rate for black Americans is 6.8 percent, the lowest since the government started tracking the numbers in 1972.

Trump’s massive success in fueling the economy has lifted even voter groups who would traditionally oppose him. The dopamine produced by that will diminish the amygdala-drive of those opposition groups to act against him. You can see that here, using black protests as a measure of black amygdala. This lack of enthusiasm is a lack of amygdala-drive.

I would assume black turnout, at least of blacks who oppose Trump, will be much lower when they are wealthier and have less amygdala driving them in four years. That should mean the percentage of the black vote he gets will skyrocket.

All of which is one more indicator that his electoral victory should be even larger than it was last time.

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