As a black man myself I am reticent to admit to what I am about to say. You have no idea as to how many in the black community have been corrupted by racial identity and racial grievance mongering politics. Racial anti-black conspiracies abound here, and the idea of objective truth and fact often pales against the notion of “reparative justice” for the past sins of whites. It is all aided and abetted by many of the politicians that the black community elects, and their political plantation the DemocRAT party.
All this despite the historical truth that the DemocRAT party is the party of lynchings, the KKK, poll taxes, Jim Crow, anti-Reconstruction, and that the GOP was responsible for the 13, 14 15th amendments, the 1st black Lt. Governors, the first black US Senators, the 1st black state legislators, every piece of foundational Civil Rights legislation from 1866-1968, that it was FOUNDED to oppose slavery, and on and on.
I wish it were not so, but untill the black community acquires a bit more introspection nothing is going to get better.
Thanks for the honesty. I wish more people would study history and learn from past mistakes.
Simple self interest should drive blacks away from the dem party at this juncture. The dems are a pure power trip and nothing more and they view blacks as a wholy owned voting block. You might want to try collecting a few of John Gato’s articles about the NEA (one of the two major financial pillars of the dem party) and the state of American public schools at this juncture and show them to influential blacks when opportunity arises. Gato was a teacher of the year in NY and is an expert on what’s wrong with American education and he’s not talking about blacks or inner city schools specifically but the whole country. He as much as says a kid would be better off being raised by wolves like Mowgli or by chimpanzees like Tarzan than being in an American public school at this time.