I think we know the hay that the left WANTS to make out of Tubman.
But this doesn’t mean that they have to succeed.
I see this as a marvelous opportunity to open up a dialogue on the black America situation that is based on truth and not lies. That these people have been hankering for the wrong thing, coaxed into it by certain white “liberals” who used words rather than irons but have achieved an equally nefarious result.
I’d gladly be part of penning a manifesto from the right about this. I suspect our pal Windy would be, too. Freedom and the dignity it affords before God Himself is the name of the game. Being some humans’ pet shouldn’t be.
It does provide the opportunity to point out that until the 1960’s most blacks were Republicans and that the Democrat party was the party of Jim Crow and the Klan was their para-military wing.
They now have them on a plantation of a different kind, government give-aways.
Red, I’m not sure how I feel about trying to drag black folks away from the liberal mind control plantation. There’s a certain kind of ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ at work with most of them.
Many moons ago, when I made my own escape, I did my level best to open the eyes of fellow black slaves, but all I got for my efforts were snarling condemnation and ostracism. The ones I talked to, honestly could not see the razor wire and guard towers to save their lives. It was very frustrating for me, and it led me to the realization that enlightenment and cognition are very personal things.
As the old folks used to say, ‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.’
I do know that, right now, there are lots of emancipated blacks who are telling the truth to those who remain enslaved to the political left, and I suppose some of them are getting the message through. It’s a huge and thankless job, for the most part, I’d say. You almost have to be from that cultural subset to fully appreciate the enormity of the task.
It took generations of hard, diligent work, to re-enslave that entire culture, and it will take a similar degree of effort to free them once again. I still don’t know that it’s my calling to take on that responsibility, though I do sometimes reflect on the question, ‘If not me, then whom?’