:: Rank-and-file black people...believe every rumor like this. They see a “vast right-wing conspiracy†::
I’d say “nope” to that conclusion. What they have been taught is a “conservative Republican conspiracy”.
How is that changed?
Might I also say that Pubbies have performed terribly at negating “the unca-tom stereotype”, simply because (and, yet, even here on FR) we assume that any “person of color” is a Dhimmicrat.
My “neighbor” is an American who happens to be black...why is that so frikkin difficult?
Unless they are named Clarence Thomas, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, or Ben Carson???