For Black Republicans, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is an obligatory fiction

[BS Filter]

Getting skinned up, and beat up, was just part of growing up (I turned out alright, except for this nervous tic I seem to have developed).

Yeah, I've done well. I'm 74, survived heart attacks, cancer, ruptured appendix and spleen. Still having a hard time with leftist idiots.

 

[Canon Shooter]

According to this wholly absurd construct, hard work – and hard work, alone – is a magical key that unlocks the promises of the American dream. And, if one accepts this premise, then the converse must also be true. Anyone who doesn’t achieve their dreams is simply not working hard enough.

You're a fucking idiot. Your premise is flawed in that it assumes that hard work always ensures success. That's just not true. Hard work does not guarantee success, it simply increases the odds of it. Not everyone who works hard becomes successful, just as there are lazy fucks (you know, people like you) who manage to become successful.

My CFO is a very successful guy who just happens to be black. He's worked his ass off his whole life and, I can assure you, the only reason he has the job he has now is because he's a conscientious, responsible, hard working guy. He's as educated as the white guys who I considered for the job, and he has a similar level of experience...

 

[Woodznutz]

Yeah, I've done well. I'm 74, survived heart attacks, cancer, ruptured appendix and spleen. Still having a hard time with leftist idiots.

I hear ya. I'm 82, had triple bypass surgery, radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer, double hernia surgery, shingles that messed up nerves in my foot. Still kickin' though.

 

[BS Filter]

I hear ya. I'm 82, had triple bypass surgery, radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer, double hernia surgery, shingles that messed up nerves in my foot. Still kickin' though.

Good for you. I'm convinced we're still here because our generation was stronger. We were more active and not coddled.

 

[Lastamender]

Aside from racial gerrymandering, suppressing votes, underfunding schools, upholding a biased criminal justice system, denying a woman’s right to choose, preventing access to healthcare, undermining democracy, opposing reparations and thwarting every effort for equal rights, perhaps the most preposterous part of conservative mythology is the insidiously racist idea of “bootstraps”.

According to this wholly absurd construct, hard work – and hard work, alone – is a magical key that unlocks the promises of the American dream. And, if one accepts this premise, then the converse must also be true. Anyone who doesn’t achieve their dreams is simply not working hard enough.

Although “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” was originally intended to be an obviously sarcastic phrase suggesting an impossible accomplishment, the concept has become a key component of the Republican ideology, especially as it relates to racial inequality. Apparently, the infallible founding fathers and the heralded leaders of the past wasted 250 years constructing laws, traditions, practices and a constitution that provided an economic, political and social advantage to the white majority when all they had to do was put their noses to the grindstone. America’s white majority benefited from human trafficking, free labor, segregation, redlining and the whole of government-sanctioned racism. Yet, to fulfill the promise that America offers, all Black people ever needed is a strong back, a good idea and an unfailing work ethic.


For Black Republicans, accepting this sliver of ahistorical fiction is the first step to ascending to a position of power and prominence in the Grand Old Party. Counterbalancing the accusations of racism lobbed at the Republican party is the main job of Black conservatives. To do this, they are required to fabricate a life story that serves as a parable and proof of the bootstrapping thesis.

Even before Herschel Walker decided to vie for the Georgia Senate seat occupied by Senator Raphael Warnock, the NFL running-back-turned-bootstrap-evangelist made a habit of explaining how his work ethic and a don’t-quit mentality led to accomplishments as a student, multimillionaire and a business mogul. There was only one problem with Walker’s backstory:

It doesn’t seem to be true.

According to investigations by the Associated Press, Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Atlanta Constitution-Journal, there is no evidence that supports Walker’s claims to own the largest minority-owned food business in America, his supposed net worth of $65m, or his proprietary mist that can “kill any Covid in your body”. It is possible that Walker isn’t a liar; maybe he simply meant to inspire others with the story about how he worked his way out of poverty to graduate in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia … Except he didn’t graduate from college.

Although he was hailed as the only hope of regaining the invaluable Senate seat, Walker’s Republican challengers are now convinced that his fabricated backstory, and domestic violence allegations by his ex-wife, have become a risk to the party, according to a report by Politico. Now that Walker’s con has been exposed, he is of no use to his Republican colleagues. The fairytale life that was once his biggest attribute has become “baggage”.

The South Carolina senator Tim Scott is taking note. For years, he has repeatedly extolled the values of hard work as part of his origin story. He often recounts the tale of his poor, illiterate grandfather who – Scott conveniently forgets to mention – owned 900 acres in South Carolina. While Scott once told me during an interview that he “struggles to come up with a concise definition of what systemic racism looks like”, he confidently told the world that “America is not a racist country”. And, according to Axios, Scott is now preparing to give a speech that warns against “teaching kids that they are oppressors”. How convenient. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Scott’s name has been bandied about as a presidential candidate.

Perhaps America’s highest-ranking Black Republican is Clarence Thomas. During his rise to the supreme court, Thomas loved to tell the tale of how his sister was content to survive on government assistance while he embraced the all-American ethos of hard work. “She gets mad when the mailman is late with her welfare check,” Thomas told a group of Black conservatives in 1980. “What’s worse is that now her kids feel entitled to the check too. They have no motivation for doing better or getting out of that situation.’’ It turns out, it was all a lie. But of course, it served its purpose. As a supreme court justice, Thomas’s life has turned into a liability that may cost his party a supreme court seat.

“What has happened too often is that people who seemingly mean well have promoted things that do not encourage development of any innate talent in people,” explained another Black bootstrapper, Ben Carson. “Hence we have generation after generation living in dependent situations. It’s not that they’re bad people, it’s that this is what they’ve been given, and it’s all they know in some cases.” As secretary of the housing and urban development department, Carson, a former presidential candidate, pledged to reverse policies that “created a culture of dependency in urban communities”. Carson didn’t mention that those same policies provided shelter, food and even the ability to see clearly during his quest to become one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in American history. But, alas, he has been discarded, too.

Unlike their white counterparts, Black Republicans are required to promote the idea that – instead of discrimination, systemic inequality and history – Black people are victims of their own laziness. Kelly Loeffler, who held the Georgia Senate seat before Walker’s opponent, came from a family that profited from government assistance. However, Loeffler didn’t bear the burden of representing the shiftlessness of white “culture”. Ben Carson didn’t point out that the man who appointed him could serve as the poster boy for white privilege, if Trump could manage to wrestle the title from the man who appointed Thomas to the supreme court, George HW Bush.

But that’s not what makes this a racist idea.

By preaching the tenets of the bootstrap gospel, Black Republicans are essentially saying that 83% of Black voters, 63% of Hispanic voters and 72% of Asian American voters are wrong. The fact that every non-white demographic in America has rejected this narrative cannot unseat this fraudulent conservative conceit. They might not know much about history, business, systemic racism or inequality in their own country but, apparently, white people know what’s best for everyone else.

The willingness to toss aside the people who labored for the conservative movement actually disproves the logic of bootstrap mythology. Ultimately, when the premise of the false narrative is exposed as a fantasy, they have no use for the Black people whose lives once supported the idea that the gears to equality are lubricated with elbow grease.

It turns out, it was snake oil all along.

For Black Republicans, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is an obligatory fiction

Just listen to the new tokens the Republicans have adopted, Herschel Walker and Tim Scott are the two they parade out front today. It used to be Herman Cain, Ben Carson, Allen West, etc., but they seemed to have fallen off the map.

West is running in TX. for Governor. Cain is dead. Carson is doing something useful, because that is what he does.

 

[BS Filter]

West is running in TX. for Governor. Cain is dead. Carson is doing something useful, because that is what he does.

These resident Black race hustlers are exactly the ones Booker T. Washington was referring to.

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."
Booker T Washington.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

I read your whiny post about how people...God forbid, expect you to work for yourself

I know Trump Humper, you have been brainwashed so bad you think only white folks work hard to achieve anything in life. Black folks have been working hard all our lives. Did you even read the article sista?

 

[daveman]

If poor white trash has suffered what black folks have in this country for over 400yrs, then they should receive restitution not help.

Don't you have any self-respect?

 

[BS Filter]

I know Trump Humper, you have been brainwashed so bad you think only white folks work hard to achieve anything in life. Black folks have been working hard all our lives. Did you even read the article sista?

And many Blacks like Clarance Thomas, Alan Page, Dr. Carson, Thomas Sowell, Senator Scott, etc, who have worked hard and contributed greatly to society get nothing but nasty vile insults from putrid trash like you simply because their political beliefs are different than yours. Blacks like you have always been the problem, not White people.

 

[Orangecat]

I grow my food so it is even cheaper.

Belly button lint, toe jam, and fromunda cheese aren’t particularly nutritious, so be sure to take some vitamins.

 

[struth]

I know Trump Humper, you have been brainwashed so bad you think only white folks work hard to achieve anything in life. Black folks have been working hard all our lives. Did you even read the article sista?

i never said that. Geez…you think it’s all about race…guess that’s what your Masters keep telling you

 

[scruffy]

Black folks have been working hard all our lives.

Some have, some haven't.

"Black folks" are no different from anyone else.

I'll tell you what "black folks" need to do, they need to start applying social pressure the deadbeat dads

I know a guy that fathered six children and he's not paying for any of them.

There's a LOT of people like that. It's a problem among black folks. All the moms end up on welfare because they can't work, they have to stay home and take care of the kids

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

I accept your concession

 

[Snouter]

I know Trump Humper, you have been brainwashed so bad you think only white folks work hard to achieve anything in life. Black folks have been working hard all our lives. Did you even read the article sista?

It is really sad that Black folks underachieve despite the fact that they have been getting preferential treatment for over 50 years. Prior to the preferential treatment they had to work hard to achieve, and those who did work hard and had talent were successful. The preferential treatment non-Whites get makes them generally lazier, more obese, more ghetto. In particular, the preferential treatment Blacks and Browns get are one reason the USA has become a third world cesspool. For example, the Black perp in this vid has served notice on society he had no business in society and really should been executed years ago, but the judicial system loves to let dangerous low IQ Blacks loose on society.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Yes they are

Not according to liberals.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

You're a fucking idiot. Your premise is flawed in that it assumes that hard work always ensures success. That's just not true. Hard work does not guarantee success, it simply increases the odds of it. Not everyone who works hard becomes successful, just as there are lazy fucks (you know, people like you) who manage to become successful.

My CFO is a very successful guy who just happens to be black. He's worked his ass off his whole life and, I can assure you, the only reason he has the job he has now is because he's a conscientious, responsible, hard working guy. He's as educated as the white guys who I considered for the job, and he has a similar level of experience...

How would you know?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

How would you know?

Scratch this post.
I thought for sure this was coming from one of our resident racist blacks.

 

[Canon Shooter]

How would you know?

Because I'm the guy who interviewed them...

 

[BertramN]

Aside from racial gerrymandering, suppressing votes, underfunding schools, upholding a biased criminal justice system, denying a woman’s right to choose, preventing access to healthcare, undermining democracy, opposing reparations and thwarting every effort for equal rights, perhaps the most preposterous part of conservative mythology is the insidiously racist idea of “bootstraps”.

According to this wholly absurd construct, hard work – and hard work, alone – is a magical key that unlocks the promises of the American dream. And, if one accepts this premise, then the converse must also be true. Anyone who doesn’t achieve their dreams is simply not working hard enough.

Although “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” was originally intended to be an obviously sarcastic phrase suggesting an impossible accomplishment, the concept has become a key component of the Republican ideology, especially as it relates to racial inequality. Apparently, the infallible founding fathers and the heralded leaders of the past wasted 250 years constructing laws, traditions, practices and a constitution that provided an economic, political and social advantage to the white majority when all they had to do was put their noses to the grindstone. America’s white majority benefited from human trafficking, free labor, segregation, redlining and the whole of government-sanctioned racism. Yet, to fulfill the promise that America offers, all Black people ever needed is a strong back, a good idea and an unfailing work ethic.


For Black Republicans, accepting this sliver of ahistorical fiction is the first step to ascending to a position of power and prominence in the Grand Old Party. Counterbalancing the accusations of racism lobbed at the Republican party is the main job of Black conservatives. To do this, they are required to fabricate a life story that serves as a parable and proof of the bootstrapping thesis.

Even before Herschel Walker decided to vie for the Georgia Senate seat occupied by Senator Raphael Warnock, the NFL running-back-turned-bootstrap-evangelist made a habit of explaining how his work ethic and a don’t-quit mentality led to accomplishments as a student, multimillionaire and a business mogul. There was only one problem with Walker’s backstory:

It doesn’t seem to be true.

According to investigations by the Associated Press, Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Atlanta Constitution-Journal, there is no evidence that supports Walker’s claims to own the largest minority-owned food business in America, his supposed net worth of $65m, or his proprietary mist that can “kill any Covid in your body”. It is possible that Walker isn’t a liar; maybe he simply meant to inspire others with the story about how he worked his way out of poverty to graduate in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia … Except he didn’t graduate from college.

Although he was hailed as the only hope of regaining the invaluable Senate seat, Walker’s Republican challengers are now convinced that his fabricated backstory, and domestic violence allegations by his ex-wife, have become a risk to the party, according to a report by Politico. Now that Walker’s con has been exposed, he is of no use to his Republican colleagues. The fairytale life that was once his biggest attribute has become “baggage”.

The South Carolina senator Tim Scott is taking note. For years, he has repeatedly extolled the values of hard work as part of his origin story. He often recounts the tale of his poor, illiterate grandfather who – Scott conveniently forgets to mention – owned 900 acres in South Carolina. While Scott once told me during an interview that he “struggles to come up with a concise definition of what systemic racism looks like”, he confidently told the world that “America is not a racist country”. And, according to Axios, Scott is now preparing to give a speech that warns against “teaching kids that they are oppressors”. How convenient. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Scott’s name has been bandied about as a presidential candidate.

Perhaps America’s highest-ranking Black Republican is Clarence Thomas. During his rise to the supreme court, Thomas loved to tell the tale of how his sister was content to survive on government assistance while he embraced the all-American ethos of hard work. “She gets mad when the mailman is late with her welfare check,” Thomas told a group of Black conservatives in 1980. “What’s worse is that now her kids feel entitled to the check too. They have no motivation for doing better or getting out of that situation.’’ It turns out, it was all a lie. But of course, it served its purpose. As a supreme court justice, Thomas’s life has turned into a liability that may cost his party a supreme court seat.

“What has happened too often is that people who seemingly mean well have promoted things that do not encourage development of any innate talent in people,” explained another Black bootstrapper, Ben Carson. “Hence we have generation after generation living in dependent situations. It’s not that they’re bad people, it’s that this is what they’ve been given, and it’s all they know in some cases.” As secretary of the housing and urban development department, Carson, a former presidential candidate, pledged to reverse policies that “created a culture of dependency in urban communities”. Carson didn’t mention that those same policies provided shelter, food and even the ability to see clearly during his quest to become one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in American history. But, alas, he has been discarded, too.

Unlike their white counterparts, Black Republicans are required to promote the idea that – instead of discrimination, systemic inequality and history – Black people are victims of their own laziness. Kelly Loeffler, who held the Georgia Senate seat before Walker’s opponent, came from a family that profited from government assistance. However, Loeffler didn’t bear the burden of representing the shiftlessness of white “culture”. Ben Carson didn’t point out that the man who appointed him could serve as the poster boy for white privilege, if Trump could manage to wrestle the title from the man who appointed Thomas to the supreme court, George HW Bush.

But that’s not what makes this a racist idea.

By preaching the tenets of the bootstrap gospel, Black Republicans are essentially saying that 83% of Black voters, 63% of Hispanic voters and 72% of Asian American voters are wrong. The fact that every non-white demographic in America has rejected this narrative cannot unseat this fraudulent conservative conceit. They might not know much about history, business, systemic racism or inequality in their own country but, apparently, white people know what’s best for everyone else.

The willingness to toss aside the people who labored for the conservative movement actually disproves the logic of bootstrap mythology. Ultimately, when the premise of the false narrative is exposed as a fantasy, they have no use for the Black people whose lives once supported the idea that the gears to equality are lubricated with elbow grease.

It turns out, it was snake oil all along.

For Black Republicans, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is an obligatory fiction

Just listen to the new tokens the Republicans have adopted, Herschel Walker and Tim Scott are the two they parade out front today. It used to be Herman Cain, Ben Carson, Allen West, etc., but they seemed to have fallen off the map.

The trump Nazis have swallowed every piece of the Republicans' bullsh!t since the 1960s, with each generation becoming more brainwashed than the one before. The trump Nazis' pride in their lack of education and disdain for education (and the educated) is validated by the GOP's fairytales contained in their Southern Strategy.

The stupidity cultivated over decades in the Republicans' voter base will soon be the death of U.S. democracy. But it will be the trump Nazis' firm belief the coming fascist state they create is a product of their patriotism, thus proving their incredible stupidity.





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[scruffy]

The trump Nazis have swallowed every piece of the Republicans' bullsh!t since the 1960s, with each generation becoming more brainwashed than the one before. The trump Nazis' pride in their lack of education and disdain for education (and the educated) is validated by the GOP's fairytales contained in their Southern Strategy.

The stupidity cultivated over decades in the Republicans' voter base will soon be the death of U.S. democracy. But it will be the trump Nazis' firm belief the coming fascist state they create is a product of their patriotism, thus proving their incredible stupidity.





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Well, this ^^^ is one of the more retarded posts I've seen lately.