Posted on 08/19/2016 2:55:42 PM PDT by oblomov
I have spent my life as a Democrat which probably isn’t that surprising considering that I am African-American. One of the things that always attracted me to the party were the ideals of equality, fighting for the little guy and our openness to differing opinions, but lately I have seen my party take a turn that makes me uncomfortable. Somewhere along the way we stopped fighting for the little guy and became the party of the smug, educated elites who look down on those with less education and deem them unable or unworthy of being able to make personal decisions for their own lives.
My problem with Liberalism is that it’s more concerned with policing people’s language and thoughts without requiring them to do anything to fix the problem. White liberal college students speak of “safe spaces”, “trigger words”, “micro aggressions” and “white privilege” while not having to do anything or, more importantly, give up anything. They can’t even have a conversation with someone who sees the world differently without resorting to calling someone a racist, homophobic, misogynistic, bigot and trying to have them banned from campus, or ruin them and their reputation. They say they feel black peoples’ pain because they took a trip to Africa to help the disadvantaged, but are unwilling to go to a black neighborhood in the City in which they live. These same college students will espouse the joys of diversity, but will in the same breath assume you are only on campus because of affirmative action or that all black people grew up in poverty. My personal favorite is declaring with surprise how articulate a black classmate is despite the fact that we are attending the same institution of higher learning as they are.
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Wouldn't it be amazing if the BLM/anti-cop movement prompts ordinary blacks to re-think their lockstep support for the Dems?
Sounds like a liberal who’s beginning to think she’s been “mugged”.
Nice try, lady. Go back to high school English class...
Blacks maybe are realizing that they are slaves on the democtat plantation.
Pandered to every four years and then quickly forgotten.
White Liberals bump for later.....
Good article other than a few grammatical errors. The last paragraph was fantastic, until that little burst of stupidity.
You may have just noticed it but it isn’t anything new, Nikki.
Smug white liberals go into denial and blame others in 3, 2, 1....
A very impressive person.
Bookmarked.
[ “...so they can keep a clear conscious.”
Nice try, lady. Go back to high school English class... ]
I dunno, the liberal consciousness is so “clear” they are pretty much mindless blank minded automatons...
Freudian mental slip?
Trump is the first politician in decades from either party that treats black people as adults.
The South rejects blacks as a group, accepts them as individuals.
The North accepts them as a group, REJECTS THEM AS INDIVIDUALS.
Wow! She finally sees it. Now I hope others might too. But I don’t have too much hope.
bttt
Kinda, she is still supporting Hillary.
To a degree perhaps, but she is till relying on the victimization card, I fail to see her telling her own people that they must be the ones to improve themselves, and to quit blaming whitey for their failings. She correctly vocalizes that white liberalism is the culprit, but fails to recognize that white liberalism is really just the new and improved version of the KKK. Their true intent nothing more than a mechanism to keep the vast majority of blacks in servitude to the ruling white elites of the Democrat Party. That Obama was just their latest token who worked at their behest with very little consideration to blacks.
Bkmrk.
IIRC, in an interview before the 2008 election, Michelle Obama said, with her test scores, she was surprised that she got into Princeton. And my comment was ‘hasn’t she heard of Affirmative Action’? Sadly, when I was in school it was pretty easy to identify many of the AA students. They didn’t ever go to class and they still graduated with a degree, but no education. So, I doubt they got good jobs. But the school I went to was close to Chicago.......and Mayor Daley (the first) was great at keeping Blacks on the Dem plantation.
Yes, they are extremely smug! I had to work with a bunch of liberal journalists for 16 years.
I’m glad she acknowledges how darn smug they are.
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