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

[daveman]

Is that suppose to be a joke? You hated Malcolm X, Dr. King and any other black man who pointed out your racist ass.

I guess you missed when Malcolm stated this.

“I’m one of the 22 million Black victims of the Democrats. One of the 22 million Black victims of the Republicans and one of the 22 million Black victims of Americanism. And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve seen is hypocrisy. “

Odd, then, don't you think, that you keep defending racist Democrats?

 

[daveman]

Well go and catch him if that is the case, most of you cowards would have loved to be on the slave patrol.

No need. You're doing a fine job yourself.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Bullshit, you always come with the same garbage. There are many black folks who have become successful in this country and contributed a great deal to society and most are not bootlicking, republicans. See racist garbage like you love these men because they will never criticize your racist ass because they want you to accept them, but we know that will never happen because you are a racist POS. Yea I know black folks like me and Dr. King, Thurgood Marshall, Medgar Evers, Jesse Jackson, etc. You don't like those kinds of black folks do you?

Jesse is awesome!!

How's the family Budweiser distributorship?

 

[daveman]

Too bad racist like you don't share that dream.

Considering how you see everything through the lens of race, it seems it's you who doesn't share Dr. King's dream.

 

[daveman]

I understand boot lickin Trump Humper, scared the racist republicans might turn on you. It's sad to see someone black who hates themself.

You think it's self-hatred? Remember, Democrats think you're not smart enough or good enough to succeed on your own without the help of white liberals.

And you agree with them.

 

[daveman]

First of all fuck boy I never said all white folks are racist, but your weak, white ass is definitely racist. Blah, blah, blah, here we go again with the bullshit, right wing propaganda. I was probably working before your punk ass was born. Actually this country will be a lot better when racist trash like you is thrown out.

How are you going to throw anybody out?

This is where you backpedal furiously and insist you didn't say what you said. It's going to be funny.

 

[Lastamender]

3 bootlickers.

What do you think you are doing?

 

[Canon Shooter]

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?

You know, it's funny to see you say this.

When I bring up my CFO, who's worked his ass off his whole life to make something of himself and, oh, he happens to be black, you dismiss his success and call him a bootlicker. I assure you, he's not licking my boots, and I'm the guy who signs his paycheck.

Fuck you, you fuckin' hypocrite lawn jockey...

 

[Canon Shooter]

You missed my correction post.

Gotcha'...

 

[AZrailwhale]

Yep. We rode bikes without helmets, drank out of a garden hose and smoked weeds. We never heard of a "safe space".

Not to mention, riding in the open back of a pickup truck was the height of fun. Played sports without safety gear and went out to play in the early morning and weren't due home until sunset. It's amazing that any of us survived to grow up at all.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Would that be like getting killed by the police, given longer prison sentences for the same crimes that you commit. Discriminated against and dealing with racism. You can keep that preferential treatment.

Thxs for the Stormfront commentary.

Per capita more whites are killed by police than blacks. Blacks tend to get longer sentences because they either have police records or often dress and behave improperly in court.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Too bad racist like you don't share that dream.

Actually, WE DO believe in it. It's what being an American is all about. You and people like you are the ones fixated on race.

 

[BackAgain]

SUPERBADBREATH has a go to motto:

“My people can’t do it!”

 

[BS Filter]

SUPERBADBREATH has a go to motto:

“My people can’t do it!”

Supersadbrutha: "Help me, help me, I'm Black and I can't get up".

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Supersadbrutha: "Help me, help me, I'm Black and I can't get up".

 

[Batcat]

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.

One of the reasons Herman Cain has “fallen off the map” is that he is dead. Died July 30, 2020 of COVID-19.

 

[scruffy]

Where do you know this guy from?

Music biz.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Per capita more whites are killed by police than blacks. Blacks tend to get longer sentences because they either have police records or often dress and behave improperly in court.

Some black people get longer sentences simply because OTHER black people are idiots. A few mess it up for everybody.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Some black people get longer sentences simply because OTHER black people are idiots. A few mess it up for everybody.

So someone black committing a crime makes it worse for the next black person who commits a crime, but when someone white commits a crime it doesn't matter about the crimes whites before him committed. Let that sink in for a minute.

 

[jasonnfree]

Black woman in Texas gets more prison time for registering to vote after getting out of prison. She wasn't aware of the rules in Texas. We had a piece of shit for a president who tried to take over our country and some good men died over his actions, and guess what? He's down in Mari Lago holding court like a King. Actually lots of people have done worse crimes than this Texas woman did but they had good lawyers that got them off. Money talks and bull shit walks in this country.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/crystal-mason-thought-she-had-right-vote-texas,