"National Review’s editorial line on racial issues shifted in the 1960s toward a “colorblind” constitutional strategy. In part, this change reflected the moral case made by civil rights activists that laid bare the brutal realities of Jim Crow."
Despite African Americans being very conservative on many issues, this explains why “colorblind” conservatism has never taken root in the Black community — It was baptized in a bathtub of White Supremacy.
And older blacks knew this.
And they spread the word to their children, and their children.
It explains why you have two churches in the South, sometimes right across the street from each other. Both orthodox. Both conservative. But they don’t worship together because many white southern churches in the past supported slavery and Jim Crow.
Fucking evil mother fuckers...
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When they want the pathology (NATURE of the social disease) to be BLACK (unique to BLACK people) they are race conscious, collectivist. But, when evidence suggest
... but, when evidence suggest "the earliest most capital-intensive forms of Atlantic interaction.... The largest intercontinental migration in history before the mid-1800s" they are individualistic and color-blind"
"Contemporary artists like Beyonce have also depicted and paid homage to the Igbo Landing in their work. In the recent wildly acclaimed Marvel comic film ...
Black Panther, Killmonger, played by actor Michael B Jordan, refers to this event, saying, “Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ’cause they knew death was better than bondage”.
"He spoke with no bridled tongue of the political OUTRAGES in Arkansas and FortBend County, #Texas, and stated that he recognized the fight was to OVERTHROW the Negro Republicans in the State."
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by Thy might,
Led us into the light,
If Burkean conservatism is a response to the French Revolution; African or Black conservatism, emerges out of, and in response to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
"Give us, us free!"
The History of Racialism: Why Europeans Invented Racial Slavery
Reaching back across the centuries, this program sheds light on historical attitudes toward human differences.
"Arguably one of the cleverest artifices of white supremacy is the thorough scrubbing out of African civilization and human existence before contact with Europeans."
"When oppression and subjugation are falsely presented as the genesis of black human identity, it provides a pseudo-intellectual justification for the marginalization of black people both on the African continent and in the diaspora."
"Moreover, it provides a justification for self-hatred among black people who are not taught any better."
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