To My Friends, Family, and Community

I am not ashamed of the poor or where I came from, and I am not scared of a diversified neighborhood, unlike many of my family members and acquaintances. I do have morals, ethics, principles, boundaries, and standards. If holding others to those same standards is labeled classist, racist, or any other anti-identity-politics label people want to apply, so be it.

For example, expecting people to treat others with civility and compassion is not discrimination, and expecting others to be responsible and accountable for themselves and their community is not hatred. Victimhood and material conditions are not excuses to degrade oneself or one's community, and using them as such only gives excuse to the systems that produced those conditions in the first place to sustain them.

Communists like the Panthers understood this, but instead of emulating them, people living inside a corporate bourgeois or wage master dictatorship nation would rather act like embarrassed millionaires in a Spencerist-Stirnerite society. That says more about my fellow citizens than it says about me.

I know where I came from, and I know we are better than this, and to my family and friends who fled and tried to forget, shame on you for your rot. People, the dark triad is unbecoming, and the fact that I have to say it proves religion is about control and not morals, because much of this society is religious.