(July 26, 2020 at 3:32 pm)Athene Wrote: Democrats don't want blacks to prosper any more than they did when they were the CHAMPIONS of slavery and Jim Crow.
The Dems need to keep blacks mentally enslaved/brainwashed in a mindset of helpless, hopeless victimhood and dependent on the government in order to retain their votes and support.
The thing that they don't get is most Black Americans aren't about that life. They want to build.
And while they recognize that racism is quite real in the US, they are unconvinced that they aren't living in a free country and are unable to move forward in life because they're black; and I'm in agreement with them. I reject the notion that I can't succeed unless masses of random, unremarkable white people surrender all their privilege unto me. It's a lie; and a remarkably white supremacist one at that. It implies that black people are so hopelessly inferior that the only substantive advantage/power we can ever hope to have is that which whites graciously give to us. Lol....WRONG.
Truth is, Democrats' fork-tongued policies and messaging has undermined and weakened black families and damn near destroyed entire communities; no one needs looks further than Democrat-run districts to see that it's true. Thankfully, more and more blacks are coming to recognize the Dems true role in the black community; corrupt-as-fuck oppression pimps posing as the "good guys"---still racist as all fuck and still working hard as ever to keep black Americans in their place as slaves on the Democratic Plantation.
Between the growing number of black voters who are open to voting for Trump--never in my life have I seen this many Black people eager to vote Republican---AND the growing number of disgusted black voters who are committed to withdrawing their support for the Dems by staying at home, I think 2020 might just be the year Black Americans are poised to deliver a figurative death blow to the Democratic Party--at least for the foreseeable future. And I am SO there for it.
Don't need the majority of us to be on board; only enough. A fraction somewhere in the low to mid teens, and it's GAME OVER.
Wow, you disagree with the concepts of white privilege and black victimhood, so you are hoping that the party who caters to middle-class (and super-rich) rural whites wins?
Political parties have one job -- to convince more than half the population that they should be elected. That rarely means providing more rational or workable policies. It means providing an emotional reason for people to identify with your party, and demonizing the other.
I agree that the idea of black victimhood is not going to help black people. I absolutely hate the concept of "white privilege", as if being white is the reason I got ahead in the world, and not the fact that I got an education and worked hard. That teaches black people that the reason they haven't succeeded yet is only because of their skin color, which will never inspire them to do what I did.
On the other hand, there are still vestiges of institutional racism in the U.S., and I hope that they will be addressed now that BLM has succeeded in becoming a movement. You can be sure the Republicans won't do anything about it.
However, I find the BLM movement as a whole to be based on a lie -- that white cops are roaming the streets eager to kill black people. They waited each year for just the right trigger event that would fire up their political movement, and they got lots of them wrong. Now they finally got their long sought-after example with George Floyd, and that somehow proves that white cops are out to kill blacks? Give me a break.
