Posted on 06/04/2021 6:43:37 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
As a black conservative for more than 40 years, I’m an expert on being canceled. I was canceled by the political left long before cancel culture was all the rage. If there’s one thing liberals and leftists dislike more than a conservative, it’s a black conservative.
Liberal America doesn’t want to hear from African American conservatives because we go counter to its narrative that black people needed liberal saviors, especially ones who come bearing gifts of more government.
But we weren’t just canceled by liberals. For decades, liberals worked to put a wedge between black conservatives and our own communities. As a result, many African American leaders wouldn’t invite us to the table and wouldn’t allow us to offer our ideas to help solve problems in our own communities. We weren’t considered “authentically black”—whatever that is.
And so it continues today.
Black liberals, but especially white ones, had the audacity to lecture me about being a traitor to my race when I started thinking for myself as a young woman in my 20s—when I started questioning why we thought government was always the answer to our social ills.
They called me a traitor when I became the national spokesperson for the National Right to Life Committee and talked about the tragic wrong of abortion, especially in the African American community. They really lost it when I started a crisis pregnancy center to help black women keep their babies.
And when I led the effort to reform welfare in Virginia in the 1990s—trying to reform a system that discouraged marriage and work, that weakened the black family, and that fostered perpetual dependence—they really hit the roof!
Apparently, I didn’t know my place.
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>> “authentically black”—whatever that is.
To be arbitrarily defiant for the sake of regression — the Marxist way.
Spoiled rich white leftists have the audacity to tell someone whether he or she is “authentically black.”
I tell the white person telling her she’s not authentically black that they’re not authentically white if I don’t have any Lawrence Welk albums. So shut the fouk up.
Too many rich white commies.
hahahahahahaha
Best way is to simply ignore it.
Haha.
Cancel culture has hit Morgan Wallen but his fans will not let it work. He is feted every time he steps on stage for someone else’s concert. His album is always near the top best selling county albums (deservedly so).
He said a bad racial word in his own back yard, not about a member of the race but in a street way about a fellow white guy. He was 72 hours into an alcohol bender. His neighbor caught it on video. He has donated hundreds of thousands to black charities, he’s apologized, he’s gone to rehab.
He’s sweet and humble and magnificently talented. He is nominated for awards but disinvited to attend.
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