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Is Black Culture a Manufactured Identity?
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Is Black Culture a Manufactured Identity?Filmmaker Chad O. Jackson on the political invention of blackness, the weaponization of victimhood, and the ideological battle for the soul of Western civilization.
We’re told that race isn’t real. We’re also told that it defines your experience. Are we distinct groups with unique behaviours, traditions, and cultures, or are differences between groups arbitrarily manufactured and oppressive social constructs that bear no relevance to reality? This was the paradox I aimed to understand when asking documentary filmmaker Chad O. Jackson: is there such a thing as black culture? He recounted a debate in Las Vegas when his opponent spoke of black people as “we,” then stopped and asked Chad, “Wait, are you black?” He said no.
What Chad is rejecting is not the aesthetic of blackness but the political identity, with which comes “a slew of principles or perceptions” that are “in large part political, philosophical.” Within that pre-packaged identity are expectations about how one must think, talk, act, and vote. To accept it requires seeing oneself as part of a group struggle. His verdict is that “black culture is a deliberately manufactured identity for the sake of serving political purposes.” This contradiction, that there are no differences between races but that there are distinct features to being black, is commonly held. It’s an example of modern doublethink: the Orwellian observation of holding two contradictory beliefs as true simultaneously. The point isn’t to get someone to believe one particular thing, but to break down their ability to reason so they can’t form opinions about anything. What is the political purpose behind the manufactured racial identity? If you create an incentive structure where opportunities are tied to victimhood claims, then that identity becomes a source of power and authority. That’s why people so often viciously fight against anyone who tries to correct a victimhood claim. Their moral authority is intertwined with the narrative. As Chad says: “They are constantly looking for fodder to justify the revolution.” Nothing gets better for these groups, but the people who craft these identities and weaponize them do become more powerful. In the full episode, we also get into why the right surrendered the arts and what Herbert Marcuse understood about culture, why you can’t reason with a crowd, why Christianity’s demands make people uneasy, The Camp of the Saints, and the battle for the soul of the West between socialism, tribalism, and Christendom. If you’d like to hear the full conversation, you can watch the episode here:  You can also find episode seven of The Construct on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, X, or Rumble. You're currently a free subscriber to Liam Out Loud. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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