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Blacks will always belive that "Kwanzaa" is about their "freedom." And they will always believe that it was the Democratic Party that brought them their freedom. No amount of truth will sell in the black community. Blacks simply think in terms of self-interest, whether accurate or not. The 5 percent of blacks who are conservatives are to be admired, for they face the hostility of their own race, which sees them as "Uncle Toms." Even Clarence Thomas is seen by most blacks as a deceitful "Uncle Tom" supposedly controlled by the "white power structure," as many blacks so regard the Republican Party.

The words for what you describe is cognitive dissonance. I encounter it all the time in my debates with my black brothers and sisters. When I point out that the Democratic Party is the party that had as part of it's Party PLATFORM from 1840-1860 the defense of slavery, or that they are the party of Jim Crow, the KKK, lynchings, poll taxes, Black Codes, opposition to Reconstruction, and the Great Society Welfare State that destroyed the 2 parent black family and that the GOP WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 13TH, 14TH, AND 15TH AMENDMENTS, the first black US congressmen, senators and southern state legislators, every peice of foundational civil rights legislation from 1863-1973, most of the historically black colleges were founded by Republicans and that MLK was a registered Republican they often find such truth so cotravenes their former indoctrination that they cannot process it and just tune it out.

This dismal situation is an endlessly frustrating and maddening reality. The black community MUST start accepting responsibility for most of that which is negative about it's contemporary plight.

“No amount of truth will sell in the black community.”
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Unfortunately true. I have yet to talk to a black person who didn’t think that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat! If you correct them on that then they come back to the lie that the current Republican party is the old Democrat party and vice versa. They will never admit that one of their heroes is a Republican. Of course this does not apply to all, only maybe ninety percent. I am just reporting my observations folks, I am not actually a white racist but neither will I go along with absurdities to be politically correct.