r/Blackpeople • u/MacroManJr • 7d ago
Discussion They Didn't Learn It Here—They Brought It With Them
A couple weeks back, a Black American creator named @k_showtime flew all the way to Indonesia—not to flex, not to stunt—to connect with people through basketball. Good faith. Shared love of the game. Cross-cultural respect on the table.
He got racism in return.
I want you to hold that image in your mind while I say what I'm about to say, because that story is the argument.
And notice: this didn't happen in Alabama.
This happened in Indonesia. A Southeast Asian nation thousands of miles from the American South, with no Jim Crow laws, no sundown towns, no history of owning Black people.
And yet the racism @k_showtime encountered there would have felt familiar to any Black American who's ever walked into the wrong room.
That is not a coincidence. That is a curriculum.
White supremacy was never just an American invention—it was an American export, and before that a European one. Colonialism spent centuries circling the globe teaching every nation it touched the same core lesson: Black is the bottom.
That curriculum got absorbed. It got localized. And in many places, it didn't even need white people in the room anymore to keep running—it just needed people who'd learned the lesson well enough to pass it on themselves.
This is what I mean when I say "WALOism" isn't a product of American demographics. It's a global disposition.
(What's "WALO"? In short: "White/Asian/Latino/Other," a direct counter to the "people of color" label.)
Anti-Blackness shows up in colorism hierarchies across South and East Asia. It shows up in how Afro-Latinos are treated within their own supposed communities. It shows up in the way African migrants are treated across the Middle East.
It shows up in Indonesia, on a basketball court, against a Black man who came in peace.
The "ALO" didn't learn to look down on Black people by living next to us in America. Some of them came here already knowing. They just found a country where that prejudice had infrastructure—labels, coalitions, civil branding—they could borrow while keeping the contempt they arrived with.
That's not a misunderstanding. That's not cultural friction. That's a feature they imported and a resource they extracted.
@k_showtime didn't have to be in America for it to find him.
Stop calling these people "people of color."
That is a Black term. It was bought with Black trauma, Black blood, Black legal battles.
Nobody else was wearing it until the 1980s—when non-white immigrant demographics discovered they could plug themselves into the civil rights infrastructure Black Americans built and start drawing benefits.
Like Black American English. Like Black American music. Like Black American style. The pattern is consistent: take what's useful, drop it when it's no longer convenient, and show your true face the moment you feel comfortable enough to do so.
@k_showtime felt comfortable. Extended good faith. You saw what came back.
Stop calling these people "minorities."
Nobody wore that label the way it's worn now until after the Civil Rights Acts—which Black Americans bled for—opened the immigration floodgates and transformed U.S. demographics permanently.
Let's be precise about who we're talking about:
Asians represent over 4 billion people globally—more than the rest of humanity combined. Non-Afro Latinos are already numerically ahead of Black Americans domestically and will be 1 in 4 Americans by 2050.
Meanwhile, Black Latinos are kept invisible and stratified within Latino society itself—silenced by the very communities claiming shared "minority" status with us.
"Minority" was never just a head count. The spirit of the word is about an oppressed and outlier people placed into subordinate position—enslaved, segregated, legally dehumanized, structurally excluded from the wealth of the nation they built. That is the Black American condition.
Coming freely to a country in smaller numbers than your countrymen back home is not that. That is called immigration.
Here's your receipt.
When Jesse Jackson—a man who marched beside Dr. King, who put the very concept of a "rainbow coalition" on the national map, who extended more good faith to other communities than most of us would have—passed away recently, I watched to see who showed up online.
And I saw more white allies paying tribute than I saw from the so-called "people of color" those coalitions were supposedly built for.
That told me everything. I even made a post here at r/BlackPeople highlighting it.
If the coalition was ever real, Jesse Jackson's death was the moment to prove it. The silence from the "ALO" in WALO spoke for itself.
Here's the bottom line.
You don't get to claim part of the American deed and opt out of the American Debt.
These communities arrive and immediately talk about "our Founding Fathers" and "immigrants built this nation"—while the people who were dragged here in chains and forced to build it are still waiting on a check and a conversation.
You want to claim ownership of this country's founding story? Then you share in the bill. Get that reparations checkbook ready alongside the people who wrote the original invoice.
My coinage "WALO"—White, Asian, Latino, Other—is one way I try to name this clearly. The point is simple and harsh: they are not like us.
Yes, it's a broad label. So is "people of color." The difference is mine is honest about what it describes.
Those who benefit from white supremacy's social architecture and do nothing to dismantle it are participants in it, not victims of it.
The "ALO" has proven, repeatedly, that they are white-adjacent in practice regardless of what box they check on a form.
And as @k_showtime proved without even leaving the airport of that argument—they don't need to be on American soil to act like it.
I'm not the Kumbaya Negro™. 🙅🏿♂️
I don't want a rainbow coalition. That window closed—and they closed it.
They showed us who they are in moments like @k_showtime's. In the silence after Jesse Jackson died. Back on November 5, 2024.
In every moment they grabbed our language, our labels, and our legal wins and gave nothing back but the back of their hand.
I want peace for us. Not unity with people who've told us clearly and repeatedly where we stand with them.
I want Black children to have a real future. I want Black elders to finally rest from a fight they've been carrying their entire lives and ours.
I want Black Americans to stop subsidizing the social mobility of communities that turn around and spit on us—here and abroad.
We tried it the other way. For decades. We have the data now.
Say something. Say it louder.
— This post references the incident originally shared by @WelcomeToTheCulture on Instagram
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u/yahgmail 7d ago
Anti Blackness has been a global phenomenon for hundreds of years now (if not more, in certain parts of the world).
Indonesia has been occupying & genociding West Papuans (darker skinned indigenous folks) since the 1960s. They have preexisting anti Black issues.
We should better educate the youth so they don't needlessly put themselves in these situations.
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u/WakandanRoyalty 6d ago
Yeah it’s crazy how every culture has a hierarchy and in all the non-black ones anyone mixed with black is at the bottom.
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u/FeaR_FuZiioN 6d ago
Nah, when I was younger I use to think “oh it’s just some parts of the world” nope every single square inch on earth that has a civilization of human beings all have people that absolutely hate us Black Americans. Yes not everyone in the world is like this but every country in fact has people that do hate Black Americans. The older I got the more the topic started dwelling on me and I started my own research into the topic and it’s so bad to the point even in Africa not all but some do not like us either, and the worst part is they don’t even try to hide the elitism. Nigerians from what I’ve personally seen can’t stand Black Americans and like I said not all but a good amount. Despite my research and my knowledge now I still cannot understand why they entire world from all cultures & grounds collectively hate Black Americans it literally will never make sense to me as well as hating anyone that you’ve never had a conversation with, I will never understand the shit ever. The only life on earth that I can say with absolute certainty that doesn’t hate or hold malice towards us is the animal kingdom, I’ve been shown more compassion from all animals than my fellow human beings, I feel more welcomed by animals than human beings. Sorry if this was a lot to read but I had to get this off my chest.
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u/Rikudo_Sennin_jr Unverified 6d ago
Who in the entire worlds dictates whats cool, whats hot, whats on fire, what trends are here to stay or not?
Its us its Black people specifically we tought Korea how to properly fry chicken.
We made being bald beautiful, those mf'ers would still be trying to comb over from the back to the front if not for us
We even made Asian culter cool wu-tang and buying into kung-fu movies.
They copy every single thing we do, say and wear. They worship our athletes in all sports yet feel comfortable disrespecting us and calling us monkeys?
If we ever get our shit unified across the globe we would rule and teach every racist on this planet who is the real monkeys. Short-round in the vid probably has jordans on with a kobe and Beyonce poster in his bamboo hut walla
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u/ResponsibleMaybe3469 7d ago
Why we always clutch pearls when this shit happens? Stick to your own people.
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u/Pride_b4_destruction 7d ago
So true. But most will do the opposite and forgive them and say all of them aren’t like that. All while hating their own people 🤦🏾♀️
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u/MaximumChair9261 22h ago
Another example that we have no friends.. I hope people understand that in every interaction we have with these people.
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u/Spirited-Living9083 7d ago
Kshowtime is a prick, nobody deserves racism but I’m more then sure he was getting his shit talking off
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u/Street-Scholar-8351 7d ago
Cooked his bi*ch ass
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