--and TU here is article I promised-lenthy--make sure you read it all--Here is the jist of it.
http://www.reflectionsebi.org/index...ue§ion=02_politics&item=01_politics.xhtml
Why blacks vote Democrat
By Ellis Washington
"In American politics, there is an existential tribal mentality that keeps black people on the Democratic plantation even to their own destruction. It is irrational."
The Metaphor: Detroit
Detroit?the city of my birth and where I currently reside? can be used as a paradigm of the apocalyptic disaster of black people voting for 75 years against their own vested interests. Since the 1967 riots, Detroit has steadily devolved from a cosmopolitan, dynamic city representing people of all political, intellectual, racial and ethnic groups?a city which in 1900 was called ?the Paris of America??into a balkanized, racially gentrified and intellectually monolithic city of liberal Democrats, unionism and corruption.
These patterns have been replicated in big cities across America where large concentrations of black people tend to live. Beginning in the 1960s, black people voted only for blacks and thus victimized themselves with mercenary and dishonest black leadership from the mayor to lower leadership ranks. This drove out the white middle and upper classes (with their tax dollars) and, in a few decades, turned many of these once great cities into America?s largest ghettos: Detroit is among the most preeminent of these cities of infamy.
The Choice: Independence vs. welfare state?
Liberalism is a politics of poverty, envy and despair. Liberals often attack people like Mr. Thomas, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Dr. Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and other black conservatives because they aren?t considered ?authentic blacks.? As Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier famously wrote against Mr. Thomas in a 1991 article in the Michigan Law Review, "Black representatives are authentic" when they are "politically, psychologically, and culturally black."
In the eyes of liberal academics, black conservatives "made it" without acknowledging the aid of white liberal paternalism and their omnipresent civil rights and affirmative action programs. Their independence is the reason these black conservatives are reviled.
So why do black people always vote for the Democratic Party? Because for the past 75 years since the socialist FDR came to power, socially and culturally blacks have been indoctrinated to follow, follow, follow. From antiquity, they followed the African tribal chief and the shaman. During slavery, we followed ?masser? and the overseer and did what we were told. The next 100 years after 1865 and the Civil War during de jure and de facto segregation, we followed poverty-pimp preachers and civil rights activists (not Martin Luther King) who told us that by voting Democrat, God would bless black people through government handouts, a minimum wage and good government jobs.
But welfare and government programs have destroyed the black family. Today, we proudly follow our first black president, Barack Obama, despite the fact that this president has done more harm to America in his first year than any other U.S. president in history.
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http://www.reflectionsebi.org/index...ue§ion=02_politics&item=01_politics.xhtml
Why blacks vote Democrat
By Ellis Washington
"In American politics, there is an existential tribal mentality that keeps black people on the Democratic plantation even to their own destruction. It is irrational."
The Metaphor: Detroit
Detroit?the city of my birth and where I currently reside? can be used as a paradigm of the apocalyptic disaster of black people voting for 75 years against their own vested interests. Since the 1967 riots, Detroit has steadily devolved from a cosmopolitan, dynamic city representing people of all political, intellectual, racial and ethnic groups?a city which in 1900 was called ?the Paris of America??into a balkanized, racially gentrified and intellectually monolithic city of liberal Democrats, unionism and corruption.
These patterns have been replicated in big cities across America where large concentrations of black people tend to live. Beginning in the 1960s, black people voted only for blacks and thus victimized themselves with mercenary and dishonest black leadership from the mayor to lower leadership ranks. This drove out the white middle and upper classes (with their tax dollars) and, in a few decades, turned many of these once great cities into America?s largest ghettos: Detroit is among the most preeminent of these cities of infamy.
The Choice: Independence vs. welfare state?
Liberalism is a politics of poverty, envy and despair. Liberals often attack people like Mr. Thomas, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Dr. Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and other black conservatives because they aren?t considered ?authentic blacks.? As Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier famously wrote against Mr. Thomas in a 1991 article in the Michigan Law Review, "Black representatives are authentic" when they are "politically, psychologically, and culturally black."
In the eyes of liberal academics, black conservatives "made it" without acknowledging the aid of white liberal paternalism and their omnipresent civil rights and affirmative action programs. Their independence is the reason these black conservatives are reviled.
So why do black people always vote for the Democratic Party? Because for the past 75 years since the socialist FDR came to power, socially and culturally blacks have been indoctrinated to follow, follow, follow. From antiquity, they followed the African tribal chief and the shaman. During slavery, we followed ?masser? and the overseer and did what we were told. The next 100 years after 1865 and the Civil War during de jure and de facto segregation, we followed poverty-pimp preachers and civil rights activists (not Martin Luther King) who told us that by voting Democrat, God would bless black people through government handouts, a minimum wage and good government jobs.
But welfare and government programs have destroyed the black family. Today, we proudly follow our first black president, Barack Obama, despite the fact that this president has done more harm to America in his first year than any other U.S. president in history.
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