Saturday, October 18, 2003
Black isn't just a color, it's a political affiliation.
You can't be "authentically" black unless you live on the Democrat plantation.
Still, that's changing. Here in Atlanta, we got rid of Cynthia McKinney and, despite her claims to having lost because of crossover Republican votes, it was actually south, mostly black, DeKalb County that decided it'd had enough of her.
I mean, she'd even had a section of GA-10 in DeKalb County named after her, and the most important thing she'd ever done as a public figure is harvest sugar cane for Castro. Well, she was also a ranking aisle-bird, showing up hours in advance of every State of the Union speech so she could be seen on TV giving the President a big hug.
But I digress.
To be "authentically" black, you have to be a Democrat, you have to state, publicly and unequivocally, that blacks can't get ahead without government intervention. You have to be in favor of racial discrimination, and hold that color of skin trumps content of character. You have to believe that any criticism of blacks is racially motivated, and the critic is a racist. You are a tower of strength and pride, except when a bit of snivelling will get you positive press. You have to believe that Jesse Jackson is a selfless promoter of harmonious race relations, instead of a philanderer who pays off pregnant mistresses with Rainbow Coalition funds. You have to believe that Clinton, raised in a single-parent household, born poor, working-class, a saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas, was our first black President - even if he left the campaign trail in 1992 to preside over a mentally impaired black man's execution.
"Single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving." This is the black experience? Well, who's driving all those Cadillac Escalades up and down Peachtree? White people with too much sun, jewellery, and oomph in their car stereos?
For black people, the Democrat party is a mental illness. It works on them to keep them believing in an America that died long ago. It keeps them on the plantation with threats that they'll lose their civil rights if they ever leave. This captivity is not as stultifying as slavery, but it's an evil thing nonetheless: the Democrats can always depend on the black vote, so they never take them seriously; the Republicans can't depend on the black vote at all, so they never take them seriously. Political powerlessness.
The end result of all this powerlessness is radicalization.
Black men make a point of being loud, to the point of being obnoxious. Maybe there are other reasons for this, relating to the welfare state-inspired absence of fathers, I don't know. The current crop of Presidential contenders includes the Rev. Mr. Al Sharpton, famous for inciting one riot that resulted in a firebombing that killed seven people, and another riot that resulted in the stabbing of a rabbinical student. Yes, he's a serious black leader - in the Democrat sense.
I wonder what can be done about this? I mean, if blackness is, in part, being Democrat, how do you change that mindset?
Blacks won't see much political power, beyond what they can extort by guilt or threat of force, until they're split 30% Democrat, 30% Republican, and 40% undecided, like the rest of the country. Until then, they'll be stuck in a cycle of powerlessness and radicalization.
You can't be "authentically" black unless you live on the Democrat plantation.
Still, that's changing. Here in Atlanta, we got rid of Cynthia McKinney and, despite her claims to having lost because of crossover Republican votes, it was actually south, mostly black, DeKalb County that decided it'd had enough of her.
I mean, she'd even had a section of GA-10 in DeKalb County named after her, and the most important thing she'd ever done as a public figure is harvest sugar cane for Castro. Well, she was also a ranking aisle-bird, showing up hours in advance of every State of the Union speech so she could be seen on TV giving the President a big hug.
But I digress.
To be "authentically" black, you have to be a Democrat, you have to state, publicly and unequivocally, that blacks can't get ahead without government intervention. You have to be in favor of racial discrimination, and hold that color of skin trumps content of character. You have to believe that any criticism of blacks is racially motivated, and the critic is a racist. You are a tower of strength and pride, except when a bit of snivelling will get you positive press. You have to believe that Jesse Jackson is a selfless promoter of harmonious race relations, instead of a philanderer who pays off pregnant mistresses with Rainbow Coalition funds. You have to believe that Clinton, raised in a single-parent household, born poor, working-class, a saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas, was our first black President - even if he left the campaign trail in 1992 to preside over a mentally impaired black man's execution.
"Single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving." This is the black experience? Well, who's driving all those Cadillac Escalades up and down Peachtree? White people with too much sun, jewellery, and oomph in their car stereos?
For black people, the Democrat party is a mental illness. It works on them to keep them believing in an America that died long ago. It keeps them on the plantation with threats that they'll lose their civil rights if they ever leave. This captivity is not as stultifying as slavery, but it's an evil thing nonetheless: the Democrats can always depend on the black vote, so they never take them seriously; the Republicans can't depend on the black vote at all, so they never take them seriously. Political powerlessness.
The end result of all this powerlessness is radicalization.
Black men make a point of being loud, to the point of being obnoxious. Maybe there are other reasons for this, relating to the welfare state-inspired absence of fathers, I don't know. The current crop of Presidential contenders includes the Rev. Mr. Al Sharpton, famous for inciting one riot that resulted in a firebombing that killed seven people, and another riot that resulted in the stabbing of a rabbinical student. Yes, he's a serious black leader - in the Democrat sense.
I wonder what can be done about this? I mean, if blackness is, in part, being Democrat, how do you change that mindset?
Blacks won't see much political power, beyond what they can extort by guilt or threat of force, until they're split 30% Democrat, 30% Republican, and 40% undecided, like the rest of the country. Until then, they'll be stuck in a cycle of powerlessness and radicalization.
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