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

[HereWeGoAgain]

You are the dujmb fuck for actually believing that. We call things that are racist that. Being a racist yourself, you think that your racism is normal operating procedure.

LOL...I didnt say cotton and milk were racist,that came from your crowd.

 

[struth]

The provisions in that bill died in 2004.
And drop that plantation shit white boy. Because the only party that wants blacks on the plantation is the republican party.

i am african american women

and no, the racist sentencing laws didn’t change til the first step act passed by the gop and signed by trump

 

[struth]

He has not been prosecuted yet.

pretty sure they are currently doing that…they indicted him in Nov of 2021

You appear greatly lost

 

[Leo123]

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,

I'd rather have money talk than bullshit talk. Which is what you just did.

 

[Leo123]

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.

You must have a degree in 'Black Entitlement'....

 

[IM2]

Are you saying blacks dont commit 50% percent of violent crime when black males only make up 7% of the population?
I know you have difficulties with percentages so take your time.

Except that blacks don't commit 50 percent of the violent crimes. Whites commit 60 percent of all violent crime. You guys use one category of crime to argue when there are 30. And all crime does harm so one can argue that all crime is violent. Your arguments are disingenuous therefore you have no credibility. You guys talk about math but all of you can't seem to understand it.

If there are more whites than blacks in this country, that means white crime is the biggest threat. But only in the lie-filled, excuse-riddled world of the white racist that people who are outnumbered 5:1 are considered a threat. Only in the psychosis-addled mind of the white racist is it OK to think that you get to commit more crimes because you have more people. That you can commit 3 times the amount of crime as blacks, but that's okay because you have not committed 5 times the amount. That you quantify all violence in one crime while whites led in rapes, assaults, batteries, and violence against their own families.

Blacks get most of the blame for crime, and it is not justified. In 2020, Whites were 51 percent of the offenders for all crimes committed in America. A white offender committed Fifty-four percent of the crimes against persons. Whites committed most property crimes (42%) and crimes against society (65%). Seven out of every ten arrests for crimes in America is on someone white. Whites have a history of criminal behavior that started at the very beginning of this country. Whites have elected numerous criminals to make laws in this country. Whites organized crime and made it a corporate business. Whites control the manufacturing, shipment, and distribution of drugs in this country. Whites made two of the most destructive drugs legal, creating millions of addicted citizens. I am talking about alcohol and nicotine. Whites have embezzled and scammed people out of trillions of dollars in the years America has been a country. Whites control the manufacturing, shipping, sales, and distribution of deadly weapons in this country.

 

[IM2]

You must have a degree in 'Black Entitlement'....

There is no such thing.

 

[scruffy]

There is no such thing.

"Sufficiency" is probably a more important word than "entitlement", for most people in real life.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Bill passed September 1994.

Republicans didn't crush the Dems until November 1994.
The 104th Congress wasn't seated until 1995.

How many from each party voted against the bill?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

it was enacted by the 103rd Congress which was the by dems in the house and senate…and signed into like by clinton

and congress does not veto bills…learn about basic civics…don’t continue to be an idiot like your plantation bosses want you to be

Funny how you know everything about white folks, but you are lost when it comes to black folks. I stand corrected Congress can override a veto, but tell me Slies how many Republicans voted against that bill? I bet you won't answer that question I will just get the usual boot licking excuses that you always give. Why is it that Republicans today are fighting to stop the John Lewis Voting Rights bill? Why are Republicans today fighting against police reform? 79 percent of white Republicans believe enough has been done in the fight for equal rights, do you agree with that statement? Tell me one bill that Republicans have passed in the last 50yrs that has helped black folks Slies, you want to talk about masters you are the one who is groveling at the feet of white republicans to be accepted as an equal, but we all know that will never happen.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

You must have a degree in 'Black Entitlement'....

You must have one in White Privilege.

 

[struth]

Funny how you know everything about white folks, but you are lost when it comes to black folks. I stand corrected Congress can override a veto, but tell me Slies how many Republicans voted against that bill? I bet you won't answer that question I will just get the usual boot licking excuses that you always give. Why is it that Republicans today are fighting to stop the John Lewis Voting Rights bill? Why are Republicans today fighting against police reform? 79 percent of white Republicans believe enough has been done in the fight for equal rights, do you agree with that statement? Tell me one bill that Republicans have passed in the last 50yrs that has helped black folks Slies, you want to talk about masters you are the one who is groveling at the feet of white republicans to be accepted as an equal, but we all know that will never happen.

ion is that your “you ain’t black” comment since i don’t tow your plantation line?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

ion is that your “you ain’t black” comment since i don’t tow your plantation line?

You tow the white Republicans plantation line.

 

[struth]

You tow the white Republicans plantation line.

maybe you should learn some history…real history…the GOP freed the slaves from the plantation

 

[j-mac]

You tow the white Republicans plantation line.

And you do good work keepin, a btrutha down.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

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.

If you ever want to see an example of how well the Democrat plan to control black people has worked - this post is the best example there is.

Damn.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

maybe you should learn some history…real history…the GOP freed the slaves from the plantation

Maybe you should try living in modern times, the GOP of 2022 ain't the GOP of 1865.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

And you do good work keepin, a btrutha down.

Sorry, I am not a white racist. That is what you do.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

If you ever want to see an example of how well the Democrat plan to control black people has worked - this post is the best example there is.

Damn.

Why is it Republicans oppose a permanent Votings Right Bill, why do they oppose police reform? We know why.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

The system is racist.

Now, say the quite part out loud.

I'll help.

The system therefore must be replaced and rights stripped away from the people so that communism/socialism may be installed.

You and I got cross for that very reason.

You're a freedom-hating communist motherfucker who is pushing re-founding indoctrination and I will never side with you.