(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The AD that attacked young white men! [1] ['Major Kong', 'Chitown Kev', 'Belinda Ridgewood'] Date: 2026-10-06 One thing I’ve come to realize, is that a lot of white people, mainly young ones on the right side of politics, don’t really know where the lifestyle they enjoy come from. They “know” they or their parents are on welfare, for example, but they don’t think it’s the same welfare that is talked about in politics. When the government says “it’s gonna cut welfare”, these young people do not blink, because in a LITERAL sense, they do not know they are on government welfare, they think their welfare is different and not classified under ‘welfare”. Same goes for a lot of other things, and that explains a bit how they keep shooting themselves in the face. Poor people are on welfare, Black and Brown folks are on welfare, they are neither poor (in their heads) or Black or Brown, therefore the assistance they receive are not (again in their minds) technically welfare or it’s not the same welfare them poor folks are on. Same goes for health care and disability benefits, when the government talks about those, they not talking about them and their benefits, because they are Americans, they are patriots, this is their money… they again literally believe that other folks don’t pay into the system and that it’s their money too. This is of course the result of years of Black Welfare Queen indoctrination. They simply cannot imagine that what they receive from the government is also welfare. So when the Arkansas Governor, makes an ad, featuring a young white man as a welfare recipient, their minds are blown, unfortunately not wide open but in rage. How DARE SHE. How COULD SHE! The rage is all over social media. Never mind that Arkansa has a majority white people. It doesn’t matter, white young men aren’t on welfare, let alone mooching off welfare! This is the status of the United States in the year of our lord 2026, white republicans blowing a gasket because for once in their lives, they’ve been portrayed in an ad, as a fictional recipient of government welfare called Brad, for some reason they find the name also infuriating. This would be perhaps funny if it weren’t a condemnation of this country’s leadership in republican quarters and our utter failure as a society. I simply cannot laugh at this. This ad is being portrayed as an attack on young white men. They find it denigrating and insulting, they out loud say it should have featured a Black woman named Shaniqua…. Because that wouldn’t be insulting. The ad is abysmal, not because it featured a white young man, mind you, but because it’s inaccurate on so many other levels. Are there young men playing video games at all hours of the day and night, Black white and all ethnicities? Yes. Are there young folks on welfare? Yes. But it’s not because of any innate laziness in the majority of the cases, it’s because of the lack of jobs or other conditions. I’m not even going to riff on the reactions to this, because it is much to sad to see the lack of reasoning being displayed. How does one criticize Black People? I wrote about this once before but not in the same context. This clip where this broadcaster is questioning himself on his reluctance to criticize a Black person because they are Black and because it’s about a racial topic warrants discourse. Black Americans have a term for other Black folks who cause harm to the community and that’s “Coon or Racoon” I do not like this term and I have never used it, sometimes a group/demographic does things that are detrimental to its own demo. Calling Black folks coons but then balking about them being called monkeys is baffling. Either you are against being dehumanized or you’re not. Now, as I’ve stated before it is not that one can’t criticize Black folks that’s the problem, it is HOW you criticize Black folks. It is when you rely on stereotypes or fall back on tropes that is the problem. Yesterday there was a clip of Chris Rock going around where he was talking about a friend of his who went to jail for 19? Years for a crime he did not commit and how the friend begged him to help with a lawyer and while he was pretty much convince his good friend was innocent, he didn’t help him with the lawyer although he had the means so he felt bad about that… fuck Chris Rock. I can say that, you can say that, you can call him a failure of a friend, a narcissist, an arrogant bastard… all good What I’ve noticed that most white folks tend to do when they criticize Black folks apart from the tropes/stereotype lines… is they do it by imitating how other Black folks criticize Black people… pump the breaks on that. How you discipline your kids isn’t how you allow others to discipline them, think of it that way. For example, I’ve seen many white commentators call this or that Black maga “a traitor to their race”… that ain’t for them to say. Black maga is fine it has no baggage. But avoid things like fake Black, Racist, All skin folk ain’t kin folks, Traitor to their race, racoon… Try they’re harming their own demographic / group, or if it’s like Chris Rock a nonracial issue? Have at it the same names you’d call any other ahole. Likewise, it behooves Black folks to avoid certain terms for other ethnicities, just because we’ve been the most oppressed and are still oppressed in many ways, just because racism is still a thing, don’t mean we have to use this tactic to bash other ethnicities, we know the harm that can be caused by weaponizing a word… such as White T. stop that shit. TheAmericanHaitianPoet Muriel Vieux – October 6th, 2026 – ©All rights reserved Count down to 60 years on this earth – October 20th. Help me make it a great one. 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