RANT INCOMING - Skin Color is NOT a Perspective

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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.

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I wanted to have my eyes open to different perspectives and my insulated, disconnected, random take on things.

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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.

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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.

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I've consumed probably more cultural Marxist social justice warrior media than you could possibly imagine.

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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.

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But the problem with this tweet is that you've got to get past this superficial, really dumbed down version of diversity.

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Franco says he wants to listen to black people to hear different perspectives. Black skin is not a perspective.

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You understand that? Let me look straight in the camera and say, black skin, your skin color, is not a perspective.

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Your skin color is simply a skin color. Your skin color doesn't think. Your skin color doesn't have an ideology.

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Your skin color is just a biological fact about the melanin count in your skin.

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If you want to listen to different perspectives, skin color literally has nothing to do with it.

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It's about your ideology. It's about your perspective from a philosophical perspective.

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

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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.

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We used to consider those as racist ideas. If you're going to say, and I've seen a lot of people say this,

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Kyle Howard just recently said, white evangelicals, I know they're not all the same, but they're pretty much the same so we can talk in generalities.

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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.

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Well, I know they're not all criminals, but there's enough of them that are. This is all racism. We've got to get past this idea that somehow my skin color as a

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Puerto Rican Latino has something to do with my ideology. It might have, there might be statistical disparities that we can talk about, but if you're looking for a different perspective,

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Pastor Franco, I would suggest looking beyond the superficiality of skin color. That is really stupid.

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Really stupid. I would look for people that have different ideologies than you, different foundations than you.

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I would look maybe for people that have different assumptions or presuppositions. That's how you have diversity.