“Progressives” don’t really care about black people. The only thing they care about is destroying Christianity, Christians, and any remnants of culture that are attributable to them.
It seems to me that Progressives have removed/substituted/destroyed many things which would advance blacks
Instead of Christian tradition, they promote Kwaanza
Instead of public safety, they have Soros DAs promoting “restorative justice”
Instead of stable families, they promote government bureaucrats
Instead of standard education, they promote CRT
They don’t read Frederick Douglass because there is not the hate they want.
“It’s not that these (black) heroes were unknowns. Who erased them?”
Happened here just last week; a progressive from up north tried to deny Holt Collier.
Actually makes perfect sense to me since virtually all the early Black heroes were Republicans-with the exception of the out and out communist W.E.B. DuBois. Then again, calling him a hero requires a very abstract definition of the word. One thing that puzzles me about cancel culture is how the Democrat Party-the heart of racism and oppression-always manages to escape the wrath of the morons.
Progressivism is a means for the less productive, those who simply cannot compete in straight economic reality, to disqualify the productive and acquire their trappings of success (confusing trappings of success, vs success itself).
Ergo, when allegedly fighting for a designated underdog group, they must eradicate any instances of people in that group being actually successful - lest that prove the Progressive narrative a lie.
How about sharing the most salient examples—instead of expecting Freepers to read six volumes to get to them?
Because they were “conservative”
They do it, in our faces, today. Clarence Thomas, Candace Owens, Ben Carson, etc.
Just like any other “diversity” group - they’re only valid if they’re down with the communist struggle. If you aren’t - you’re NOT that group.
Tl;dr - “y’all ain’t black if you don’t vote for me.”
If you aren’t red, you aren’t allowed to be black.
Phyllis Wheatley...
‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
“Their colour is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.
Oops.
And a quick Google (no less) search for America's black heroes from colonial times renders top results as these:
African Americans in the Revolutionary War - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › African_Americans_in... In the American Revolution, gaining freedom was the strongest motive for Black enslaved people who joined the Patriot or British armies. African-American Patriots · Fate of Black Loyalists · Fate of Black Patriots
African American Men: Moments in History from Colonial ... https://www.washingtonpost.com › Metro African American Men: Moments in History from Colonial ... Colonial Times, 1492-1776 ... 1492: Among the crew on the Santa Maria during Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas is Pedro Alonzo Niño, a black man.
Africans in America | Part 2 | The Revolutionary War - PBS https://www.pbs.org › wgbh › aia › part2 The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters and, consequently, more blacks fought for the Crown. An estimated 100,000 African Americans ...
African Americans and the American Revolution - History Is Fun https://www.historyisfun.org › learn › learning-center Yet by 1783, thousands of black Americans had become involved in the war. ... African Americans, most of them enslaved, were living in the 13 colonies.
I am not black, I don’t care. Or, put another way, not my tribe, not my problem.
well, ya just can’t have free slaves not claiming victim status or it looks bad