The Black Scare and the Fallacy of the American Dream

There is a rise in fascist speak in relation to Black Americans online, in political spaces and casual social settings. White nationalist speech and Online incel culture push the incentive to reprimand the black existence under the guise of harmless comedy, while on a more federal level, political regression is highly encouraged. Daring to speak out against injustice and borderline racism warrants quick dismissal and social out casting, and those who bear witness to this event are silenced by fear of social isolation. To enable the social outcast of Black Americans is to be promised the rewards that are entailed in the American dream.

Due to this quick-happening phenomenon, it is becoming distasteful to be proud of Black American culture and all the varieties it arrives as. Socially, words are taken from AAVE and twisted into new meanings, woke now being a dog-whistle for the intolerant, the abbreviation of yn being spoken so casually by nonblack people, and the term Black fatigue on the rise, a phrase spoken in a joking matter to signify irritation due to being around black people.

The long-term goal of what is deemed to be the American dream is the pursuit of a unilateral, concept that excludes our right to political freedom, with possibility of another silent generation, in vague hopes of still achieving the said American Dream. A uniform and frankly totalitarian approach to one, if not, of the most diverse countries in the world. The freedom to express one's identities, cultures and beliefs should not fall flat in the giant shadow of what's deemed to be the American Dream. Dismantling the American dream and addressing it for what it is, assimilation.

Young Americans must refuse to adhere to the slow tide of totalitarianism, be unashamed of culture and identity, as well as standing tall against political repression. The only prompt for not being bold enough to stand in the face of adversity, is silent hopes that subtle inclination to the uniform approach of traditionalism will be a saving grace. Clinging onto a dream that is not truly yours results in appallment when you realize far too late you weren't pictured in America's everchanging rush to America's conjoined Conservative-Fascism. 

By Destiny Varnado