Black Agenda Report's managing editor Bruce Dixon ask, once black America gets over bragging rights what difference have presidential and congressional politics made lately? The answer is none. Despite the recent drop in unemployment figures, everyone gains while black folks lose. President Obama's agenda is working for some, but not for ALL.
According to gop , black folks are lazy, plantation democrats and welfare queens on food stamps, who want the government to take care of them. Yet this is the same party who behaved like young thugs extorting democrats to get what they want, forcing them to make cuts in programs intended to help the American people in their time of need.
The gop is not solely to blame for the condition of black folks... those who advised the President to move to the center are also to blame. His advisers were afraid if the first African American addressed issues relating to black folks it would look like blacks were getting special treatment like this.
President Obama didn't help the situation by listening to them, ignoring the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. , pandering to conservatives at the expense of the traditional democratic base.
Blacks voted in record number for HOPE for CHANGE we could BELIEVE in, not bragging rights.
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2 comments:
As you've stated and suggested, black Republicans and conservatives see blacks the same as their white counterparts--and they don't draw a pretty picture.
Hence, when we attack these whites for their racial bigotry, these same blacks run to their defense (calling us racism chasers), oblivious to the fact that they, too, have been attacked--notwithstanding the claim, "Our blacks are better than your blacks."
When whites told me, "You're different from other blacks," I disassociated myself from those saying it, as they had, under the guise of paying me a compliment, revealed their "deep-seated hatred for [blacks], or the [black] culture."
What is said about a "house divided"?
I call it the plantation mentality, or the house slaves vs the field slaves...the house slaves told the field slaves to shut up because Massa was good to them.
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