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I recommend you read my essay on the history of the Democratic Party and its legacy of slavery. It seems you have imbibed a fountain of Democratic Party propaganda. The Democratic Party is the Party of Slavery. And it will continue to be until it reckons with its past and redeems itself. But I don't think it ever will.

https://minorityreport.substack.com/p/accepting-the-obvious

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Black cinservatives?

The Symbolic Betrayal of the Black Race: In his book, “Black Labor White Wealth”, Dr. Claude Anderson relates," the term Uncle Tom is not an appropriate label for an individual who is “white on the inside and black on the outside” and sells out his race by placing his personal gains with whites ahead of the rights and gains of his people. Contrary to popular usage of the label, the character Tom was not the culprit in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Uncle Tom was a brave man with dignity who cared about his family and race. The real villain was another black slave named Sambo. He was totally committed to the white master and used every opportunity to undermine the other slaves.Sambo, in many respects, was like today’s black conservatives. Sambo always followed the white slave master, Simon Legree, and offered to show him how to “tree the coons.” It was black Sambo who beat Uncle to death for both refusing to whip a black female slave or sell out his people. Uncle Tom tried to empower his people by undermining and beating the social structure whenever he could. Uncle Tom felt it was important to get his people across the river to freedom. He risked his life to do so. The Sambo character personifies a very successful social control construct created by conservatives. He was such a successful phenomenon that the concept he personified became a greater danger to blacks than Uncle Tom. As blacks move towards structuring policies of racial accountability, it will be very important for them to know who helps and who hurts the race. Sambo was the black slave character in numerous novels and movies who was willing to pick up a weapon and defend his white master against the approaching Union army or hide the master’s silver from Northern carpetbaggers. What is the difference between the fictional Sambo characters and today’s real-life blacks who join the conservative movement to argue against affirmative action, black reparations, and set-asides? They declare that the world is now color blind and are opposed to any policies requiring whites to share the socioeconomic burden that centuries of slavery and second class citizenship have imposed on blacks. Isn’t espousing a color blind, race-neutral, melting pot society, a moderate way of hiding master’s silver? What are black conservatives conserving when black America is burdened by poverty, crime, unemployment, homelessness, and other social pathologies? Based upon historical treatment alone, there should be a general antagonism between blacks and conservatives. Though conservatives claim that they are not racist, for centuries, they have opposed programs and policies to help blacks. Andrew Hacker, a white writer, provided insight on this in his new book, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, and Unequal. Hacker asserted that: “There persists the belief that members of the black race represent an inferior strain of the human species…Of course, the belief is seldom voiced in public. Most whites who call themselves conservatives hold this view about blacks and proclaim it when they are sure of their company. Since white conservatives share their true feelings only in the privacy of other whites, there is a strong possibility that black conservatives do not know how white conservatives truly feel about them.”

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Nipping it in the bud, both parties are owned and controlled by the white dominant group. The white liberals just shuffle the chairs on a sinking ship to make blacks feel good, with symbolic gestures and lack of tangibles. White conservatives just sink the ship. Blacks should first concentrate on building black group wealth and power. Then create their own independent political party in order to effectively deal on a quid pro quo basis with both parties to better address their needs. What are black conservatives ( meritorious manumission negroes) conserving? From who? Increasingly depending on whites for basic necessities to sustain life is self destructive.

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“ Increasingly depending on whites for basic necessities to sustain life is self destructive.”

We need to depend on other people to sustain the basic necessities of life. Judging our potential dependencies based on their race and not their character is foolish and a vice. If you haven’t found any people who happen to be white in your life you can trust, respect, and love, I can only suspect it’s because you have actively avoided it. Shunning good people who are white because of racial grievances is self destructive.

“ Blacks should first concentrate on building black group wealth and power.”

Blacks should first concentrate on letting go of any old irrational bigotries.

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If you're looking for a comfort negro to enable your nonsense, I'm not that guy. I don't need any white affirmation, especially coming from an ultra conservative white guy who belongs to a group with a history of horrors committed against people of color. You have a very cognitive dissonance demeanor in dismissing critical causes and effects (facts). Racism is an economic relationship between groups - a team sport. Europeans got the headstart program with free African labor, genocide, colonization, and structural racism (white authoritarianism).

At the end of the day, it's about White preservation by any means necessary (look at the GOP abuse of power today in an attempt to dilute Black empowerment).

Whites are projected to be the new majority-minority by 2043. Many Whites are feeling great anxiety, fear, anger, and rage about losing power.

You came into other people's land and just took what you wanted.The slave can't be the massa. Blacks never marginalized whites in this country like Whites did to Blacks. Police presence in affluent communities is less because of resources. That's universal in every country I have visited in the world. Our relationship now is just a quid pro quo coexistence. I'm not your boy! Your paternal and convuluted concept of racism is highly self-serving (maintaining the white status quo of wealth and power). I have nothing to prove to you (waste of time and energy).

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