What a great idea. I see you up there Trueblackman.
I’m donating for Charles Lollar. We need more conservative leaders in Maryland.
I have one question for the black community, and maybe the conservative ones can answer it ~ ~ why after so many years of trying to be treated as equals and fighting for civil rights and end of racism, do many black Americans still separate themselves out by bringing up their race/color?
Oh, one other thing...should we “on the right” start calling “those on the left” racist when they campaign so hard to have black conservatives lose elections (I’m thinking of Allen West here)?
Well, I'm a melanin enriched conservative, so I'll give it whirl.
The generation of blacks who marched in the streets of Selma, faced attack dogs and fire hoses, and risked jail or death - truly did seek equality and simple human dignity. From the eldest, to the very youngest, blacks of that era really did long to be free of the artificial restrictions that actually were holding them back.
In time, that war was won. Jim Crow and racial segregation fell to a new birth of consciousness among all of the American people. For a brief period in the sixties and seventies (particularly among the young), black and white Americans enjoyed a newfound freedom of association with one another that was very liberating and peaceful.
Sadly, it didn't last. Some activist elements in the black community had recognized during the 'struggle', that wealth, influence, and power could be had by pushing the correct buttons on whites. That element had been in the black community for a long time. Booker T. Washington made mention of them long before the civil rights era.
Such people quickly rose to the top in black leadership circles, and created what we now call the 'grievance industry'. These people worked in concert with white liberals to sell the idea that blacks deserved special access and reparations for what had been done to them by whites for so long. They sold the idea that blacks bore little to no responsibility for their own condition, and that the rest of America was obligated to make them whole.
Unfortunately, many blacks bought into this Big Lie, and became the very thing they were trying to escape. Two generations on, the root causes of their social condition have become blurred and obscured by the constant reinforcement of the very same lies and artificial grievances that got them there in the first place. Perception and belief has become reality.