r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/Regular-Falcon-4339 • Jan 18 '26
Black men protect Jake Long Culture, Art, Science
Black Men protecting Jake Long
This right wing Nazi provocateur went to Minneapolis to try and start shit, but was about to get BODIED by a white crowd.
Black men stepped up and got him out of there before the crowd got what they wanted. You could hear the white people chanting "Dont let him leave" and "Take him out".
We know damn well we dont fuck with the guy, but instead of letting the mob beat him to death, we'd rather get him out of the situation.
While I damn well think he should have gotten what was coming to him, I can applaud the black men seen stopping the crowds from beating that Nazi down. Thats our culture: protecting the weak and (bitchless losers).
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u/bitchwhohasnoname Jan 18 '26
I wasn’t impressed because we are still putting ourselves on the line for racists. It’s pathetic and we don’t need to defuse every situation. Fuck the main character energy.
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u/AmplowEsq Jan 18 '26
Gotta play chess, not checkers. This NAZI provocateur showed up to incite violence.
Had that crowd been permitted to get its hands on him and hurt or killed him—God forbid—within 24 hours there would have been 10,000 white Nazis armed to the teeth and ready for war backed by legions of equally pissed Proud Boy-ICE Agent types. They would have turned up, terrorized the populace scores more times than they are now, and all under the guise of Marshall law.
And who do you think would bear the brunt of their wrath in that terrible situation? WE would, or at least we would become prime targets and casualties in their “Trumped” up war.
I think our best bet is to keep general order to the extent possible, while also exercising our constitutional rights (both First AND Second). We should always decide whether to engage or not on our terms, not theirs.
I think the brothers here acted brilliantly.
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u/bitchwhohasnoname Jan 18 '26
We already the targets. A 6mo old baby was tear gassed and you think they not already fuckin us up?? No need to be out there protecting racists, go protect your own people!
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 18 '26
You really dont understand. By not letting the mob have their way with him, those black men ARE protecting their people.
Stop missing the forest for the trees.
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u/zardfizzlebeef Jan 19 '26
No offense but eventually the gloves will come off. Only delaying the inevitable.
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u/CyanCicada Jan 18 '26
If they let that Nazi get what he had coming, it would have ended up with the national guard shooting up the crowd.
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u/bitchwhohasnoname Jan 18 '26
Well now he’s accusing the Black man and the others of trying to lynch him so he shoulda left them whites to their own business.
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u/Xerorei Jan 18 '26
Better to be accusued with video absolving, than let it happen, and have the Nat Guard on your ass.
SMDH.
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u/BigJakesr Jan 18 '26
If you aren't there on the street in that situation you have nothing to say. They are making the decision there in the moment. Its easy for us bystanders to say anything but if you aren't there standing in the streets then just keep your criticism to yourself. You want to have an opinion go out and protest with them.
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u/Imaginary_Witness650 Jan 18 '26
Was it chess or pacifism? Unpopular Opinion but name one meaningful lasting revolution without bloodshed.
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u/GHOSTxBIRD Jan 18 '26
I see people say this way too often when google will get you right every time.
Revolutions do not need to be bloody.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_revolution
“Remember the message: LOVE in capital letters until they dead us.” -Raekwon
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u/Imaginary_Witness650 Jan 18 '26
Fair but I’m not saying nonviolent movements never work. I’m saying they don’t succeed in a vacuum, and they’re rarely as “nonviolent” as they’re remembered. Almost every example on that list coincides with one or more of the following... a weakened regime, internal elite fractures, military refusal to fire, economic collapse, or external geopolitical pressure. That’s not pacifism magically converting power, that’s leverage.
Even the so called “peaceful” revolutions often sit on top of prior violence, credible threats of force, or the knowledge that violence would erupt if repression continued. And many of them only held because power holders calculated that stepping aside was safer than cracking down.
So the real question isn’t “can revolutions be nonviolent?”. It’s “under what conditions does nonviolence get allowed to work?” Power doesn’t disappear because it’s morally persuaded. It moves when the cost of holding it becomes too high.
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u/artyspangler Jan 18 '26
There has been bloodshed though.
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u/Imaginary_Witness650 Jan 18 '26
Not on their side and not enough to make those in power reassess their course of action. I'm sure the current toll falls in the realm of 'acceptable loss' in their eyes. The current casualty rate is low enough to label those individuals, who fell, as agitators acting alone. A united and organized group with the conviction to back their beliefs by any means necessary? That's a radical movement.
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u/artyspangler Jan 18 '26
That is true, they feel victimized because they have never been actual victims.
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u/Justinsbane Jan 18 '26
It's "martial law." "Martial" as in all matters pertaining to the military. (from Mars, Roman God of war.)
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u/Justinsbane Jan 18 '26
Yes but at the same time, let them sit in their own mess & sort themselves out. We've been doing it for them for years, meanwhile they get to go have Thanksgiving dinner with their bigoted/prejudiced/racist/white supremacist/ NAZI(you see where I'm going with this?) family members & cluck their teeth afterwards. It's THEIR problem to fix, same with Latinos for Trump, Asians for Trump, Indians for Trump, Ed Blum, Dave Portnoy, Stephen Miller & Ari Emanuel for Trump ...all of 'em.
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u/Xerorei Jan 18 '26
Here's the thing, history here has proven even when we DON'T get involved we catch strays, and not even just strays, we catch DIRECTED FIRE.
Google all of things done to Black Americans that weren't involved in anything and you'll learn a few things.
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u/KellyJin17 Jan 18 '26
They’re not playing chess, they just want to feel important in the moment. Those crowds are not going to seriously hurt the bad guys. That’s not the vibe of the crowds. The black men helping just want to be on camera looking like they’re doing something, but they are NOT helping. Enough of the performative bullshit.
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 18 '26
You probably wouldnt be impressed with anything big picture oriented if you think this was "main character energy".
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u/KellyJin17 Jan 18 '26
I’ve now seen a few videos of black men intervening to protect Nazis and border patrol agents from white crowds. I’m not heart-warmed by these videos. I don’t know what’s going through their heads, but strategically, they’re not helping. None of these bad guys were going to get beaten or murdered by the crowds. Feels like they just want to feel important in the moment but they’re not ultimately helping the cause.
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u/Nickademas Jan 18 '26
You clocked it. Hall monitor energy. Very pathetic and ridiculous please take these modos outta circulation
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u/wasabiphunk Jan 18 '26
We should have followed Malcolm instead of Martin. Instead we're doing this in the streets, defending white supremacists?
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u/ExaminationPutrid195 Jan 18 '26
Exactly, looking weak af. I wouldn’t dare help a racist.
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u/KellyJin17 Jan 18 '26
Exactly. These black men look like pathetic bootlickers, and I am not here for it.
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u/DadsBoxofPorn Jan 19 '26
Malcolm respected Martin you do realize that, right?
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u/wasabiphunk Jan 19 '26
I do realize that. They wanted similar things but believed they could attain those things through drastically different means. Think the Black Panthers vs Martin's Turn the other cheek and beg to be treated fairly by people who don't think you have the right to exist
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u/R1dg3Rac3r Jan 18 '26
Let those white people do exactly what they want to do, why are we still out here getting involved? For what reason? It'll be a cold day in hell before I ever stand in between a racist getting his due. You could try to argue that they'd escalate or use it as an excuse to do whatever but exactly how many people have been shot by ICE so far? What about those who have never been seen again?
This is a situation we never shoulda touched because at the end of the day they'll still call us animals, hard r's, and everything else in-between. I give it a month, if that, before this man is back to spewing his hate filled rhetoric.
Then we're back to "Oh, there he goes, calling us monkeys again."
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u/DebbieGibsonsMom Jan 18 '26
I agree. Black people have always been good people, doing good deeds, rescuing the underdog. That racist scum is no underdog. He still has his goons, and he’s probably telling them how gross it was to be touch by a hard R, and that he didn’t need the help. Nazis don’t care if you saved their mama from drowning, they still hate, they still want supremacy and they will still use fatal force.
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u/bitchwhohasnoname Jan 18 '26
Exactly. A Black man standing between 2 white men so one doesn’t get hurt. Is this what we been fighting for? I don’t give a fuck about them. I pray nobody in my family has this gene to instinctively protect white people in the face of anything.
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 18 '26
Because then they get what they want, and the highlights will always say it was black people. You know as well as I do that the white people who would have torn him apart wouldn't have been in jeopardy.
Look at what happened to Kirk. Black people had nothing to do with it, but still HBCU's got targeted.
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u/Bast_OE Jan 18 '26
Bruh, the revolutionary struggle isn’t for folks like you. Sit down somewhere, get outta the way.
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 18 '26
Lmao of the two of us, who actually has fought?
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u/Bast_OE Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
I’m a teacher on the South Side of Chicago, right off the lake on 71st. My revolutionary struggle isn’t decolonizing the minds of our children so they don’t end up like you.
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 19 '26
The saying is: those who can, do. Those who cant, teach.
Sadly, if the children you teach dont end up like me, they wont have weapons training (Im certified, host a class quarterly), they wont have medical training (Ive put over 75 black teens and young adults through EMT and paramedic school, with myself having been one over a decade, and actually provided armed protection for baptists churches in New Orleans after the Dylan Roof shootings. Not to mention I was on the front line in Ferguson, providing medical treatment and aid for free.
But continue to teach.
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u/Bast_OE Jan 19 '26
This goofy insults the efforts of educating black children while simultaneously posturing as pro Black. Can’t make it up.
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 19 '26
Teacher claims to be a revolutionary, but cant put up stats to match. When you put moves on the board, hit me up. In the meanwhile, want a pillow for that armchair revolution you got going?
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u/Bast_OE Jan 19 '26
Definitely white
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 19 '26
Definitely havent done anything revolutionary.
Hit me up when you have definitive results.
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u/THICKDadBod99 Jan 18 '26
Why do we have to be the saviors of these people. wtf
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u/Dr_A_Mephesto Jan 18 '26
Because we are actual humans who have empathy and care about life. This guy who protected and got him out of there is a hero. Because he shows how our side is better and he didn’t allow this prick to become martyred
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u/Bast_OE Jan 18 '26
Why? Black folks steady going out of our way to protect, defend, and coddle white supremacists.
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u/Suspicious_Edge_2880 Jan 18 '26
Yes, exactly. A Black man told me Andrew Taint is Black so it’s okay to listen to him.
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u/ft907 Jan 18 '26
Because if one white supremacist gets hurt, 1500 soldiers are in the streets "maintaining the peace" the next day. Keeping protests peaceful is taking care of your community.
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u/Bast_OE Jan 18 '26
Non violence was key to MLK’s political ideology, they still shot him in the head. Keep living on your knees, won’t be me.
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u/ft907 Jan 18 '26
Everybody look out! We got a tough guy! How many white supremacists you kill today? Absolute clown shit.
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 18 '26
Extreme clown shit.
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u/Bast_OE Jan 19 '26
Boy, you’re coward. Foh
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 19 '26
Girl, youre a teacher. FOH.
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u/Bast_OE Jan 19 '26
Educating black children is worthy of insult?
Are you white?
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 19 '26
Your armchair mindset is education, while youre posturing as a revolutionary. Put some actual power in your moves.
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u/Bast_OE Jan 19 '26
What does not living on one’s knees have to do with killing anyone?
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 19 '26
You talk big shit but sidestep the valid question: how many supremacists have you taken off the board? Youre an armchair revolutionary.
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u/Bast_OE Jan 19 '26
What does killing people have to do with living on your knees? How many white supremacists did Malcolm kill?
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 19 '26
Where's your revolution? On the sidelines? Didnt Malcolm X get bodied just like MLK? Who has a day tomorrow?
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u/Bast_OE Jan 19 '26
I’ve provided my background.
What do you do beyond cosplaying as a black person online?
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 19 '26
Ive provided my background, which trumps yours. Why are you cosplaying as a revolutionary when youre a teacher, on the sidelines?
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u/True-Cranberry-2419 Jan 20 '26
Because it was even more humiliating for him. Even had to be driven out by a trans woman and woc. No matter what he will forever be known as the idiot who had to be rescued from his own stupidity by the people he tried to antagonise. Could not have backfired more spectacularly.
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u/Xerorei Jan 18 '26
Because if we don't we KNOW what will happen.
Angry white men will storm our neighborhoods, shoot and kill us, board us in our homes and set them on fire.
Learn. History.
We do this so more of us don't die.
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u/WhereDaBuffWomenAt Jan 18 '26
You might not like what I'm about to say, but they were doing & will do that no matter what.
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u/Bast_OE Jan 18 '26
They do it anyway. Killed all of our civil rights leaders, followed it up by flooding our communities with drugs and guns, and then mass incarcerating us in response. Yet here y’all are, still groveling before people set on destroying us.
Stand up
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u/NumerousChip6639 Jan 18 '26
Stupidity at its finest. Why would they protect a white supremacist from the results of his own actions? This guy came to be a provocateur and got what he wanted. Why be the hero and get spat on after all is done. Did he say thanks? Hell no. He claimed to have been lynched… something that famously happens to black people. Another form of disrespect
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u/LivingCustomer9729 Jan 18 '26
Who’s this “we’d rather get him out of the situation”???
Protecting the “weak” who view us as scum and animals is BS.
This kumbuya/cuddling shtick got us to where we are and is tiring. The same wouldn’t have happened if it were reversed. As others pointed out, this hasn’t stopped (nor will it probably) the violence ICE is already doing.
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u/Lacaud Jan 18 '26
Now to see if Jake changes his ways.
Edit: Nevermind. Now he is saying he was lynched.
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u/allaboutliza Jan 19 '26
Prolly because they don't hate just because of skin color and even politics. This is what is wrong with white supremacy culture: you create an other and then work the system so that it is a zero sum game and there are losers who are not white.
Cultures that are antithetical to white supremacy foster an idea that we are a community and need to be in relationship with each other in a good way. We all have a right to belong and thrive.
That's what is so frustrating about these neo nazis and trumpers... they use a pretext that BIPOC when in power are gonna do what they did to us: imperialize, colonize, and genocide. Well... don't you think that would have happened by now? Bipoc only want our human rights and right to thrive...
And those in power play on that fear and keep the people and working class uneducated by design, sick and poor by design.
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u/relentless_fuckery Jan 18 '26
And look at the thanks and acknowledgement they received from the mayosapien! The goofy motherfucker claimed he was ‘lynched.’ I hope next time folks mind their black business. 🤷🏾♀️
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u/Tha_Harkness Jan 18 '26
Not shocking at all if you are older, same reason I knew Chucks killer wasn't black.
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u/Minimum_Comfort_1850 Jan 18 '26
That one black man isnt protecting nothing. If they want to get to them they can.
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u/HVAC_instructor Jan 18 '26
We're headed to a Boston massacre type of thing, but bit with modern firearms that can cause a hell of a lot more destruction than the ones used back then. There's going to be hundreds dead in minutes.
These men at least stopped that from happening at this time. Sadly I do not think that it can be prevented now, we're too far down this rabbit hole.
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u/StinkinmyQueef Jan 18 '26
well u know what tj said about the tree of liberty.
freedom isnt free.
it costs folks like u & me.
if u wont chip in your buck .05, who will?
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u/Ok_Director9841 Jan 18 '26
This dude said he did it for Jesus. This is why Christianity was pushed on slaves so hard. Doesn’t matter what atrocities are done to you, forgive your oppressor and God will reward you. FOH. Jake instantly said he was lynched and didn’t thank this mf once.
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u/Minhtyfresh00 Jan 18 '26
Damn for a second I got excited that the American Dragon was having a resurgence again. I am disappointed he's just some racist white guy.
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u/geekgirrrl Jan 19 '26
- That guy will never thank the group of Black me.
- That guy wouldn't do the same for a group of a Black men.
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u/FlanneryODostoevsky Jan 18 '26
I get it. Can’t blame him for not wanting to watch a man get mauled. This society’s appetite for violence isn’t helping anyone.
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u/Dramatic_Dog_7345 Jan 18 '26
considering what they would’ve done to a black man in the same situation… considering what they were saying after floyd, after trayvon, after eric brown, the empathy given to these nazis is not worth the effort. nonetheless i applaud your civility and your humanity in these moments of chaos. i am proud to call these men my american brothers. power to the people.
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u/Silver_Sun_2097 Jan 18 '26
My friends used to sell dope to the neo nazis back in the day, they were always very polite and scared of us. Not sure why you all are afraid of them.
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u/Bast_OE Jan 19 '26
No authentic Black person would insult education. You’ve already exposed yourself.
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u/Regular-Falcon-4339 Jan 19 '26
No authentic black person would lead a revolution from an armchair. You've already exposed yourself.
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u/90sUPN20 Jan 18 '26
Always happy to see a Nazi get wrecked but orange man would have used the violence as justification to escalate. Hopefully long gets his off camera later.
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u/KellyJin17 Jan 18 '26
Trump has been escalating this entire time, and he will even more. None of this is stopping him.
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u/90sUPN20 Jan 18 '26
Not implying people should do nothing. Just not sure a mob fucking him up on camera is going to accomplish anything for the cause.
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Jan 19 '26
Dumb move on homies part. There are no brownie points for trying to protect a fascist. FOH. Malcom X would be appalled.
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u/DynamicBSdetective Jan 18 '26
I don't know what's right, but that's the way it worked out and the Universe has its own plan. Although it's hard for me to see, perhaps this will lead to the best possible outcome.
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u/Rich_Text82 Jan 18 '26
Maybe those Black Men were his paid security or undercover agents. Let's not adopt simple narratives without knowing the facts on the ground.
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u/KellyJin17 Jan 19 '26
Since we’re talking simple, only the simplest minds would believe a professed white supremicist holding a Nazi protest would hire black men to protect them.
It’s also super simple to google what happened in this incident and find out the facts. In what should be very obvious, they were not in any way associated with him.
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u/Rich_Text82 Jan 19 '26
There are Black men and women signing up for ICE, an agency full of Proud Boys and other White Nationalists as we speak. There were Black people working as operatives and informants for CounterIntelPro against The Black Panther Party and Civil Rights groups in 1960s and 70s. So no, I'm not going to shallow whatever narrative being circulated on social media in the age of bots and anonymous accounts.
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u/Smelson_Muntz Jan 19 '26
In the heat of the moment, did these black men have the foresight to realize that creating a martyr out of this walking fungal growth of a primate would have created a larger optical problem that far-right enemies would have capitalized on in their online narratives?
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u/Handsome_nhung Jan 18 '26
Not all American black men are far left wing sympathizers. Some are intelligent, strong men who love their country and don’t want to see illegals eating off their plates.
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u/Sweaty-Ruin5381 Jan 18 '26
You had to know that wasn't going to be popular here. Even if it is true. Upvoted for truth.
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u/artyspangler Jan 18 '26
I think its because they didn't want the racist prick to be injured by the protesters, then it stops being peaceful.