When you poll black people on their beliefs the arregate result is generally conservative on most issues. But when you point out that the Democratic Party’s entire history and policies have been antithetical to the best interests of the black community, and that to the extent that a major political party is responsible for any political and civil liberty that black people have, they owe it to the Republican Party, and even when you can prove that historically and factually the most amazing case of political cognitive dissonance then occurs.
The common response is, well that may be true but only the Democrats are “for us”. They usually go on to an entirely erroneous understanding of Nixon’s Southern strategy, a distortion of Berry Goldwater’s principled opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and completely ignore the fact that the Democratic Party was founded amongst other things, to extend slavery into the territory’s. The Democratic Party opposed 13, 14, and 15th amendment to the United States Constitution, reconstruction, every bit of foundational civil rights legislation from 1866 to 1968, instituted Jim Crow in the Southern states, refused to enact antilynching laws, and most importantly destroyed the two-parent black family with Lyndon Johnson’s welfare state. When you point out the fact that the modern-day Democratic Party is home to the pro-abortion forces that have enhanced the wildly disproportionate abortion rate in the black community, that doesn’t seem to register either.
The black community is in the throes of the worst political brainwashing outside of the Soviet Union and I just don’t know what can be done about it. I constantly engaged in debates with people in my community and they are determined to vote for Democrats despite the clear and present evidence of their utterly destructive policies. The staggeringly high level of political cognitive dissonance amongst my people is frightening.
Very well thought out and accurate to a tee in your assessment. You should be writing books Frank. The truth needs to get out there and you obviously have a great voice.
I attended college 17 years ago in Los Angeles at a school with a large black community. I was having a debate one day with a young black woman about Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood. She was saying what a great feminist Sanger was and what a great example her life was to women. (She had obviously been brainwashed in some woman studies class.) I then shared Sanger’s views on black eugenics and this woman was horrified. I told her to do some research because all the evidence is easily available and she wasn’t going to learn it in school. I said it is imperative the truth gets out to the black community because the percentage of abortions for blacks was much higher than for the general population. Seventeen years later and nothing has changed. Margaret Sanger’s vision is still alive today in the pro-choice movement, whether people are aware of it or not.
It would be revolutionary for a politician to have the caring and the courage to point out the facts regarding this issue.