The left’s ugly racism towards black conservatives
[NOTE: I’m forcing myself to write at least one post about something other than the election.]
We’ve seen this picture before, many times:
(1) Larry Elder, black face of white supremacy:
“Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned”
Larry Elder smiled the smug smile of a Black conservative who could very well be liberal California’s next governor.
“Where do you start with the damage Gavin Newsom has done to the state that we both love?”
He leaned forward to gaze across the room of white Republicans who had come to a hear him speak in Orange County. …
(2)
(3) Clarence Thomas is an Uncle Tom.
But this particular virus is hardly limited to the United States. It’s rampant in the UK at present, due to the election of Kemi Bandenoch as head of the Tories. Brendan O’Neill writes:
Following the election of the first black leader of a major party in this country [the UK], Ms Butler took to X not to congratulate but to sneer. Not to cheer this final breakthrough for racial equality in the UK but to share a poisonous description of the person who made the breakthrough as the “black face” of “white supremacy.” It is one of the worst things a member of the ruling party has done since they came to power four months ago. …
[Butler] … retweeted some tips for “surviving a Kemi Badenoch victory” written by Nels Abbey, a London-based Nigerian journalist. He branded Badenoch “the most prominent member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class.” She’s the chief representative of “white supremacy in black face,” he sniped.
… [Badenoch] was being depicted as mere dressing, as an exotic decoration for “white supremacy,” as the black mask our supposedly racist elites have decided to pull on. This is dehumanising talk: it robs Badenoch of her agency … and treats her as little more than the mouthpiece of a nefarious agenda that hurts her own kind. …
… The writer Kehinde Andres, in typically provocative style, shared his view that Badenoch is the “shining ebony example that the Psychosis of Whiteness is not reserved for those with white skin.”
… Other Tories from ethnic-minority backgrounds have likewise been branded the fodder of whiteness.
Sickening – to wrap oneself in the mantle of anti-racism while demonstrating a vicious kind of racism against both black people and white people. And unfortunately, this phenomenon seems to be rife on both sides of the pond. As more and more members of minority ethnicities have become conservatives, the left uses sophistry to declare them to be race traitors doing the bidding of their white supremacist controllers.
Black folk are some of the most racist folk there are. It is hard to recollect a people so thoroughly compromised by groupthink and violence. I have told people the black community will end up being a sideshow with violence. And all the potential of the young will be lost due to acting white.
Key tell: when a white cop shoots a black man riots, demonstrations, etc. When it’s a black on black mass murder every week, Nary a peep. The KKK couldn’t have thought up something so twisted.
Richard F. Cook:
I see many “peeps” from black people about black-on-black violence. It’s black Democrat politicians who don’t seem to talk much about it, or who blame it on white oppression.
The doctrine of False Consciousness allows the Left to evade actually having to face demographic and political reality, and they put it to use all the time.
A very long time ago, back during the Punic wars, I decided to study Economics. A big reason was Thomas Sowell, and the excitement he instilled in me about the impact that proper economic policies could have on the inner cities, the education gap, and thus, the wealth gap in this country. I’ve had a handful of occasions in my life to talk to young blacks recently graduated from college. They’ve never heard of him. Not a one.
Really sickening. Kemi Badenoch has actually conservative ideas. I thought they should have chosen her instead of Sunak, or even instead of Liz Truss.
This is similar to the vicious commentary in Slate recently to the effect that Usha Vance is a traitor to her race and “gender,” and is oppressed by her white husband.
Kate:
Yes.
That’s funny, I thought they were arresting people for expressing thoughts like that in the U.K. now. Does this person get a pass for racial taunting and hate speech because they, themselves, are people of color? So – the U.K. system of justice has separate codes, depending upon race, then?
“The smug smile of a Black conservative”?
Neo:
I lived in the Near West Side, in the heart of the hood in Chicago for 10 years. And worked armed loss prevention in the South and West sides. Same dynamic constantly. Child gets shot and killed maybe some reaction for two weeks then nothing. In an endless cycle. It’s not the politicians it’s the people. Seen the same thing in Atlanta, Newark.
Richard F. Cook:
You say “some reaction then nothing.” What would suggest people do? A lot of the murders are gang-related and/or drug-related. I’ve read about a lot of grassroots action against that, including by churches.
I doubt anyone in America has it as tough as a black American Conservative. Used to follow about 25 black American blogs—most considered themselves Afrosphere blogs. I’d sign up and let them all know humble me was a proud white man. Maybe one or two openly resented me there, but I don’t recall right now.
As I looked over the old bookmarks—many also seemed to have changed owners ‘n such. One old favorite – Field Negro – seems to have a new owner, and missing a great sidebar page/widget called House Negro of the Day or Week (forget now). Black Conservatives were usually listed as the “House Negro” but sometimes it would be an NFL football player who irritated the blog’s owner.
The “Field Negro” should’ve been named “House Negro” for true accuracy, IMHO.
Many of the black blog owners had wealthy parents—some powerful activists in ‘n around Washington. Some had gone to private schools—then on to college.
My favorite was a black Conservative blog who had strong connections to the King (MLK) family, maybe one was an owner or blog author (?). Have lost the link now.
Another black Conservative blog is still around – BLACK REPUBLICAN BLOG
They seem to be connected to the National Black Republican Association.
Black Conservatives are an underappreciated group of strong Americans, IMHO…
I’m delighted to learn that Kemi Badenoch is now leader of the Tories. I’m in love with both her and Suella Braverman.
Racism, despite the left’s using it as a blunt instrument, actually can be a word with an actual meaning: defining people by the color of their skin.
Back when the first Bush was President, he decided to have some of the US’s “black leadership” to the White House to convince them Republicans weren’t racist, or something. One of the “leadership’s” conditions was no Thomas Sowell. If Bush had real character, he would have told the “leadership” to shove it.
The topic of Democrats attacking black conservatives was was in national news, when a Democrat female former national security employee interjected herself into a coffee shop conversation among black female conservatives. This occurred in Alexandria, the Va. suburb of Washington DC.
White Lib (woman) Who Became Totally Unhinged Over a Black Trump Supporter Identified
More at the link, including a video of Ms. Catchings explaining herself. She kept her cool a lot better than I would have. There are also videos of the arrogant white liberal woman telling the black women they were “uneducated” for supporting Trump. Sounds like my NYC relatives.
Mike Plaiss
I am reminded of an encounter I had with a 40-something Venezuelan author at a meet-the-author deal at a local book store. I purchased several copies of his book for him to autograph for hometown friends with past ties to Venezuela. While he was autographing for me, I mentioned a book I had purchased while working in Venezuela that changed my political views: Carlos Rangel’s Del Buen Salvaje al Buen Revolucionario (from the Good Savage to the Good Revolutionary), perhaps better known in English as The Latin Americans: Their Love-hate Relationship with the United States, The author had never heard of the book, though it was published only a couple of years before he was born.
At least the author had heard of Carlos Rangel, though he misidentified Rangel as a politician. Carlos Rangel was a journalist, and had also spend some time as an Ambassador- which may be how the author got the politician angle.