RANT INCOMING - Skin Color is NOT a Perspective

The Difference Between Perspective and Skin Color

He says, when I came back to Twitter, I made the decision that I wanted to follow Christian black leaders, whether they be pastors, musicians, writers, politicians, etc. I wanted to have my eyes open to different perspectives and my insulated, disconnected, random take on things.

Now, the first comment I want to make about this Twitter thread is there's everything good about wanting to listen to people and hear people from different perspectives and things like that. I have no problem with any of that.

I do this all the time. I have consumed probably more alt-right media than you could ever imagine. I've consumed probably more cultural Marxist social justice warrior media than you could possibly imagine.

And some people would say that sounds like torture, but it's something that I just happen to enjoy doing and I like hearing other people's perspectives. But the problem with this tweet is that you've got to get past this superficial, really dumbed down version of diversity.

Why Skin Color Is Not a Perspective

Franco says he wants to listen to black people to hear different perspectives. Black skin is not a perspective. You understand that? Let me look straight in the camera and say, black skin, your skin color, is not a perspective.

Your skin color is simply a skin color. Your skin color doesn't think. Your skin color doesn't have an ideology. Your skin color is just a biological fact about the melanin count in your skin. If you want to listen to different perspectives, skin color literally has nothing to do with it.

It's about your ideology. It's about your perspective from a philosophical perspective. It's about your mind. We've got to get past this idea that skin color is actually a legitimate perspective or ideology.

Rejecting Racial Generalizations and Stereotypes

There is no such thing as the black mentality. There's no such thing as the white mentality. These ideas used to be racist ideas. We used to consider those as racist ideas. If you're going to say, and I've seen a lot of people say this, Kyle Howard just recently said, well, white evangelicals, I know they're not all the same, but they're pretty much the same so we can talk in generalities.

That's just a racist idea. That's what alt-right uses to talk about black people. They say that we want black people out of the country because they're all criminals. Well, I know they're not all criminals, but there's enough of them that are.

Diversity Is About Ideology, Not Skin Color

This is all racism. We've got to get past this idea that somehow my skin color as a Puerto Rican Latino has something to do with my ideology. There might be statistical disparities that we can talk about, but if you're looking for a different perspective, Pastor Franco, I would suggest looking beyond the superficiality of skin color.

That is really stupid, really stupid. I would look for people that have different ideologies than you, different foundations than you. I would look maybe for people that have different assumptions or presuppositions.

That's how you have diversity. It's not just skin color.