The Right Believes Blacks Must Be Broken
They Have To Come To Heel!
I regret to inform you that the Negroes are up to their shenanigans again.
This time the site of the crime is the Tennessee state legislature, where state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson have been expelled for the crime of not politely protesting the massacre of children in a school shooting in Nashville. Jones and Pearson, both Black men, were expelled. Their fellow protester Rep. Gloria Johnson was not expelled. She is a white woman.
Conservatism has a problem, and that problem is Black people consistently refusing to fall in line and genuflect before their white masters. For the right, Black people asserting themselves and acting as if they are full citizens who have the right to speak and lead completely upsets the correct, natural order of the universe.
Who do these Negroes think they are, man?
The expulsion of Jones and Pearson falls right in line with this worldview which we have seen for decades unfolding before us. There is never a right way for Black people to express themselves in America. If they march in the streets, they’re wrong. If they speak through their elected officials, they’re wrong. If they win office and speak out, they’re wrong then too.
Few have been so “wrong” as President Barack Obama, who had the nerve to occupy an office reserved exclusively for white men — and he did it for eight years. Vice President Kamala Harris is similarly guilty of disrespecting the time honored tradition that power resides in the hands of white people only, particularly white men.
So in the eyes of the right, the Blacks must be broken. It is the slave master mindset, stretching back to the plantation and the belief that any even mildly revolutionary thoughts — like the concept that Black people are equal to whites — must be stamped out. This was accomplished with the lash of the whip, leaving scars on Black bodies to show what happens to those who had the temerity to step out of line. Murder and rape were everyday tools used to accomplish this mission. As long as the Blacks knew their place.
Similarly, and book banners like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can be proud to know the tradition they are a part of, slave masters had Christian Bibles censored, to remove all the uncomfortable language that might give their Black property dangerous ideas about equality and the immorality of the slave trade.
So then, what is the ideal Black condition for the right? Who exemplifies the opposite of what Reps. Jones and Pearson, Obama and Harris, all of those NFL and NBA players who took a knee and Black Lives Matters have done?
It is good boys like failed Senate candidate Herschel Walker. Walker was one of the “good ones.” Sure, he ran for a white man’s office, but he did so for the right reasons — as a puppet of white conservative interests. Even more importantly, the way Walker ran was the proper way for Blacks to comport themselves, as conservatives see it.
Get on stage and make a fool of yourself, talk nonsense about vampires and make it clear that you have no idea that the office of a U.S. senator is important. Even better, don’t speak up for yourself. Instead, just sit there like a big Black buck on the slave auctioneer’s stage while a good white man, like Sen. Lindsey Graham, explains to his fellow whites how this one will do all of their work for them.
Just grin, boy, and don’t say anything out of line.
That’s how the right believes that Black people need to behave. But Black people in America won’t learn.
We have been rebelling over and over since first being transported here as cargo. Black people have never fully accepted the white insistence that they know their place. Attempting to break Black people doesn’t work and what happens is that a people grows stronger and more assertive.
The right is going to do what it always does to preserve its unearned position of power and prestige. It will try very hard to hold on total control.
Black people will fight to be heard and will not break. It’s the right way and the only way.
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To be truly disgusted and enraged, listen to what the white cracker who sponsored the resolution to expel these individuals from the legislature. He was a half a step away from calling one of the "boy" and referring to him as an "uppity...". From where I sit, the Republicans sowed the seeds of their own defeat yesterday with this action. They have energized and enraged young people, african americans, moribund Democrats and a sizeable portion of the country. Or as Adm. Yamamoto said after the Pearl Harbor attack, "They have awakened a sleeping giant and filled it with a terrible rage".
I don't think it was a coincidence that I had just read an article about Hillsdale College in the New Yorker with this passage close to the front: "The faculty includes Michael Anton, the former Trump Administration official known for his essay “The Flight 93 Election,” in which he wrote that voting for Donald Trump was the only way to save America from doom, and David Azerrad, a former Heritage Foundation director who has described America as being run on a system of “Black privilege.”
In the '90s, the resentment against Bill Clinton in part stemmed from a wounded egotism that this slick hick from the sticks was president and they weren't. As you know, the hatred of Obama was different. Race and class came into play. We have to keep calling this out and I thank you for doing so