RE: Time For Whites To Wake Up
July 21, 2013 at 9:57 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2013 at 9:59 pm by Ryantology.)
(July 21, 2013 at 10:09 am)plaincents822 Wrote: I couldn't agree more. It is a traditionally left wing concept to trash black conservatives as sell outs which to me has an implication of greater racism than many liberals believe they are capable of. To say that a black man is an Uncle Tom because his views don't match up with those of the majority of black people is to insinuate that black people are incapable of individual thought and only capable of being part of a hive mind. I've even heard libs say that they are not REAL black people. What's a real black person? !?! Seriously?!?! And to take the point further I have heard that exact same argument used against Log Cabin Republicans.
Except, the left-wing position is more nuanced than "black people who deviate from most black people are not real black people". Black people who favor the Republican party are not confusing because they are not part of some hive-think. They are confusing because conservatives in this country have been the driving force behind every single attempt to discriminate, disenfranchise, enslave, belittle and segregate. Conservatives represent nothing which is of benefit to any person who is not rich and white. Conservatives accept black people as equal human beings only begrudgingly. So yeah, it makes no sense why any black person in America would ever vote for people who make little effort to hide the fact that they are black people's worst political enemies and it is not racist to question the motives behind this behavior.
But, then again, it's kind of hard to imagine why anybody who isn't part of the rich, white plutocracy would ever vote for candidates who care only for the interests of the rich, white plutocracy. They understand this, which is why the GOP platform appeals to screaming racist working-class whites such as A Theist.
