Rhetorical Device Analysis

You Actually Reveal the Content of Your Character…

…when you quote MLK, demanding us to judge the content of your character

Martin Luther King, Revisited

There was so much Black joy in Washington D.C. on the 42nd Annual Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. parade! It was a very beautiful sight. More than 120 organizations were in D.C.’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Peace Walk on Monday, January 16th, 2023.

Forgive me; I had to drop five quick photographs I took on that glorious day. If a picture is worth a thousand words, I’m clearly saving us time, right?

While sharing the beauty of life I seen, I feel compelled to break word on a subject that has many of us Black folks vexed.

Whites Look for Exoneration, Always

In America, it seems as if white people only pay attention to Black voices if our Black voices exonerate. For the most part, as long as we protect this concept called “white innocence,” we are cool. In fact, the more we as Black people protect white innocence, the more rewards in life we are granted. Many Black people are millionaires because they know this as a fact, and they execute accordingly. Conversely, the more we seek to challenge this concept of white innocence, the more punishments we face.

Martin Luther King was killed, murdered in cold blood — assassinated — because he consistently challenged white innocence. Never forget this.

Judging Character

Post-murder of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, America is still a white supremacist nation. The Whitegeist controls all media and information, up to and including history and teaching curriculums. Historical revisionism occurs on MLK’s name, on top of perversions of his statements, claims, and phrases, which leads us to where we are now.

“Don’t judge me by my skin color, judge me by the content of my character.”

I would be quite the rich fellow if I had a five-dollar bill each time this was uttered within earshot. This phrase is pretty damn funny to ear, because when white people say it, it’s like they are trying to throw it in Black people’s faces, like:

“Hey you Black motherfucker, your icon said this shit, so leave me and my racism the fuck alone!”

It seems like white people run around thinking they are judged for existing as a white person. As if skin color is the only thing a Black person sees, thus, the only thing a Black person judges. This is pretty fucking funny; Black people are also inculcated in the ways of white supremacy and are actually more likely to grant more humanity to an unknown white person than an unknown Black person. A Black person must, in most cases, train their mind and heart to love and prioritize themselves. You know, detoxify from this white supremacist sociological programming America drenches us in.

So no, Black people aren’t judging white people just because they are white people. Black people aren’t judging white people due to skin color.

Black people judge white people by way of white folk’s behavior. White folk’s actions. The things you are actually doing.

Black people don't judge white people by white nouns; Black people judge white people by white verbs. Not white persons, places, and things; white action.

Trying to silence Black people by perverting a Black icon that white people ASSASSINATED due to your klancestors white feelings being hurt actually tells plenty about the content of your character.

Demanding Black people to judge the content of your character reveals the content of your character. And the content of your character in doing so isn’t good. Your character is a sociological power-parasite coward of a person, who cannot self-reflect, cannot face a mirror when King, or any actual living Black person, asks you to.

White guy, your character is racist as fuck. White homegirl, your character is racist as fuck.

When you try to slam a Black person with this “content of your character shit,” you reveal you’re racist as fuck. Pretty much all you’re really trying to say is, “don’t judge me dawg.” You don’t want to be judged at all, including your character, regardless of how dank you and your family and friends are.

You wish to present yourself as a rattlesnake to a blind and deaf man. Hating the woke, you seek to be the brown recluse in a Black woman’s bed while sleep. You wish to have the power of an assassin, deadly and invisible to those your klan has been killing for hundreds of years.

All power; no accountability.

We know you seek to duck and judge basic human judgment, because this is also why you say this freedom of speech shit (as if every Black person is a Constitutional judge serving federal arraignments). You do know that freedom of speech doesn’t deal with regular day-to-day conversation and talk, right? A person can judge you as the piece of shit you are, based on what you choose to communicate. You know this, right?

Final Thoughts

Black people are very character-oriented people. We are judging you by your character already, stupid.

White people, please stop saying this dumb shit; it tells us all we need to know about you within a matter of seconds. We know you do not want responsibility for your klancestors’ systemic racism and terror; you don’t want to be accountable for your bystander mentality concerning racism and white supremacy; you don’t want to be held accountable for how you vote and how your friends and family vote.

You seek to dodge responsibility and accountability (concerning systemic, sociological power) your whole life, all while running the world, controlling, or having access to, all major resources of this nation we call the United States. You rather maintain white privilege as a cloaking device, rendering yourself invisible to your fellow brother and sister in pain, only to become highly visible to shut Black people up. You rather attempt to bury your klancestors while reaping the undeserved rewards of their racist institutions, practices, policies, and principles.

You spend more time silencing Black voices standing against racism than that crazy uncle, aunt, or daddy spewing racist shit.

In addition to that part, technically when you say this mess, it is you who are judging us by skin color! Martin Luther King said this to white people to consider our humanity, not the other way around. Being white in America, you and your humanity have been considered and prioritized above all since America’s Day One.

Systemic racism doesn’t remove white folk’s humanity; it removes everyone else's. You keep “all lives mattering” this shit and expect to be a decent person when everyone else is still crying in pain, you selfish prick. You will burn in Hell.

White people, please evaluate your use and intent of this phrase, and stop saying this dumb shit to Black people. Face the mirror; self-reflect. This is all we ask — me, King, all of us, living or dead. Fix your character, please. It’s one of the few things you own for your whole life.

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Photography of the 42nd Annual DC MLK Parade