Historically, knowledge, wisdom, information and trust all came from the pulpit in the black community. In many ways, that trust in the man in the pulpit remains.
Enter the charlatans that we "know and love" -- Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Kweisi Mfume and others. The fact that most (if not all) of the so-called leadership are ministers is not a coincidence.
Those individuals took advantage of their trusted station to paint the "distinguished opposition" as evil, mean, heartless, and all sorts of other words.
That made it very easy to paint those blacks who dared to step outside the box that the charlatans paint as "uncle toms," "oreos," "lawn jockeys," and worse names. It helps to marginalize any and everyone on the right.
Conversely, there is a historical split from the early 20th Century: Booker T. Washington encouraged a doctrine of "doing for one's self" and "picking one's self up by their own bootstraps."
W.E.B. DuBois, pushed the idea of a "talented ten percent" taking the "lead" to go forward and pull the remainder of society behind.
I'm sure you can guess which side won.
DuBois used that concept with the formative years of the NAACP, and his followers embraced the mindset.
The single largest fallacy of that mindset is that the masses, i.e., those of us great un-washed who aren't part of the "talented tenth" are far smarter and more resourceful than many believe.
We are those who Washington felt would rise to lead not only blacks in America, but to stand hand in hand with everyone to help lead America as a whole.
We are there; we are rising.
It isn't an instant process -- God knows that I wish it were, but it isn't.
But as more of us leave the plantation of the "talented tenth," we begin to step beyond the liberal mindset and the Democratic party.
And thank God for that!
This is a Rocky Marciano vs Joe Louis fight.
Yours is the better theory. I have a theory that may compliment yours:
During the early 1800’s, whites in the South were, by a wide majority, Democrat. In the same way that blacks Democratic thinking is today, whites in the South, at that time, thought that menial work was “slave” work. Though there were not as many, if any, handouts from the government at the time, whites saw Republicans as caring only for northerners and taking away any handouts they would receive from the southern Democrats. Today, blacks are indoctrinated by peers, public schools, white elites, and black “leaders” that, because they were slaves once, they cannot achieve anything higher than menial “slave” work, and those that do are winners of life’s lottery. Blacks are stuck in this rut of not accepting ground level jobs, which eventually lead to higher paying jobs (I know, I’m in one), but are addicted to the government handout.
Your thoughts are greatly appreciated.
I have to ping you to this my friend. Mike is really explaining it well.