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

[Superbadbrutha]

You're nothing but a lazy negro who's a drain on society...

What are you other than a privileged, weak ass, white boy who rides off the back of other white folks accomplishments.

 

[Canon Shooter]

What are you other than a privileged, weak ass, white boy who rides off the back of other white folks accomplishments.

Negro, I've made my own accomplishments. I'm a success due to my own hard work, and no one else's. I know you don't believe that, but that's only because you've never achieved anything in your pitiful little life. I scrimped and saved and sacrificed and almost failed more times than I care to count. But, unlike you, I don't rely on a gub'mint check so I can go buy some Hennessy and Watermelon 99 minis...

 

[Superbadbrutha]

[quote[Negro, I've made my own accomplishments.

[/QUOTE]
Wow good for you, you have done something nobody else has done exceptional white boy.

I'm a success due to my own hard work, and no one else's. I know you don't believe that, but that's only because you've never achieved anything in your pitiful little life. I scrimped and saved and sacrificed and almost failed more times than I care to count. But, unlike you, I don't rely on a gub'mint check so I can go buy some Hennessy and Watermelon 99 minis...

Oh don't forget the fried chicken and that I have a white woman as well.

 

[Canon Shooter]

Wow good for you, you have done something nobody else has done exceptional white boy.

Oh don't forget the fried chicken and that I have a white woman as well.
[/QUOTE]


Oh, I dig some fried chicken. You can keep the watermelon, though. I've never seen the allure with that.

There's an older black gentleman who owns a small place over on the bad side of the tracks, and he makes the best fried chicken I've ever had. I'll pick up a biscuit, a couple thighs and some cole slaw, and the bill is a whopping $8. He always gets at least $15 from me, though.

And I never claimed to have done anything exceptional, primarily because I don't see working hard and being successful as anything special. You're the one who seems to be fascinated by success and hard work.

So, yeah, go fuck off with your bullshit...

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

I don't have any racism to face.

Exhibit A

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Cheating didn't become a problem until Trump got his ass handed yo him. Our Lord can't lose it has to be cheating.

That's funny. ID wasn't a problem for black people until we started demanding it.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Wow good for you, you have done something nobody else has done exceptional white boy.

Oh don't forget the fried chicken and that I have a white woman as well.

Oh, I dig some fried chicken. You can keep the watermelon, though. I've never seen the allure with that.

There's an older black gentleman who owns a small place over on the bad side of the tracks, and he makes the best fried chicken I've ever had. I'll pick up a biscuit, a couple thighs and some cole slaw, and the bill is a whopping $8. He always gets at least $15 from me, though.

And I never claimed to have done anything exceptional, primarily because I don't see working hard and being successful as anything special. You're the one who seems to be fascinated by success and hard work.

So, yeah, go fuck off with your bullshit...

Damn there aren't any white folks who can fry chicken on the good side of the tracks. Which side of the tracks do you go to when you want a Ribeye steak? Oh that's right they don't eat steak on the bad side of the tracks. Fascinated by success and hard work, that doesn't really make any sense. So go suck yourself with that bullshit.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

That's funny. ID wasn't a problem for black people until we started demanding it.

I have enough IDs, don't need another one. You're right IDs weren't a problem until Trump got his ass handed to him and then Trump Humpers need and excuse why he lost.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

I have enough IDs, don't need another one. You're right IDs weren't a problem until Trump got his ass handed to him and then Trump Humpers need and excuse why he lost.

IDs were a problem when Trump was still selling his stupid board game (early 1990s).

You must be new to all this.

 

[g5000]

Which ones?

Hell, you're either a stone cold idiot, or deliberately obtuse.

Fannie Mae.

Freddy Mac.

JP Morgan

Goldman Sachs

Citigroup

Capital One

Bear Stearns

AIG

And about a thousand other financial institutions.

Then there are farm subsidies, oil and gas subsidies, alternative energy subsidies, sugar subsidies, on and on and on.


Hell, just this week there is news about Trump gifting the Yellow Corporation with $700 million, most of which they used to buy new equipment instead of protecting the paychecks of their workers.

And then there's ZIRP, which is killing savers and retirees while supporting the banks.

Then there is the part of the CARES Act which committed money to the Fed so that corporations could borrow money more cheaply.

I could go on all day.

 

[g5000]

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.

Look, man. You are wasting your time. The tard herd is being groomed to bleev the negroes were better off and a lot happier back on the slave plantation. That's why they resist any education whatsoever which contradicts this. They are well conditioned to forcefully deny and ignore anything which might disturb their delusions.

It's a willful blindness. They DESERVE to be lied to.

 

[g5000]

TEACHER: Today we are going to learn about Plessy v. Ferguson.

SNOWFLAKE, JR: Stop blaming me!

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

TEACHER: Today we are going to learn about Plessy v. Ferguson.

SNOWFLAKE, JR: Stop blaming me!

TEACHER: (audible part) Today we're gonna learn about why white people are inherently racist and why we must re-found the nation (silent part) in the image of Mao.

 

[g5000]

TEACHER: (audible part) Today we're gonna learn about why white people are inherently racist and why we must re-found the nation (silent part) in the image of Mao.

Yes, that is what tards like you hear in your heads. You are literally mentally ill.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Hell, you're either a stone cold idiot, or deliberately obtuse.

Fannie Mae.

Freddy Mac.

JP Morgan

Goldman Sachs

Citigroup

Capital One

Bear Stearns

AIG

And about a thousand other financial institutions.

Then there are farm subsidies, oil and gas subsidies, alternative energy subsidies, sugar subsidies, on and on and on.


Hell, just this week there is news about Trump gifting the Yellow Corporation with $700 million, most of which they used to buy new equipment instead of protecting the paychecks of their workers.

And then there's ZIRP, which is killing savers and retirees while supporting the banks.

Then there is the part of the CARES Act which committed money to the Fed so that corporations could borrow money more cheaply.

I could go on all day.

Fannie Mae.

Freddy Mac.

Yeah, those government mandates really fucked them up.

JP Morgan

Goldman Sachs

Citigroup

Capital One

Short term loans that were paid back at a profit to the Treasury.....just awful!!!

Bear Stearns

Went away. Bought by JP Morgan in 2008.

oil and gas subsidies,

Writing off typical business expenses? I hate when that's allowed.

And then there's ZIRP, which is killing savers and retirees while supporting the banks.

You think banks benefit from ZIRP? How? Be specific.
AFAIK, their margins are squeezed by low rates.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijfe.1595

I could go on all day.

Feel free. I'll keep pointing out your errors.

 

[Canon Shooter]

Damn there aren't any white folks who can fry chicken on the good side of the tracks. Which side of the tracks do you go to when you want a Ribeye steak? Oh that's right they don't eat steak on the bad side of the tracks. Fascinated by success and hard work, that doesn't really make any sense. So go suck yourself with that bullshit.

You know 's funny? You don't know how to react when a white guy praises a black guy, because it blows your whole "white guys are racist" bullshit outta' the water.

Fuck off, moolie. You're a worthless little fuck...

 

[scruffy]

Shut up racist. What we blame whites for are things whites have done or continue doing.

That very statement is racist as hell.

Maybe you oughta look in the mirror?

 

[IM2]

That very statement is racist as hell.

Maybe you oughta look in the mirror?

There is nothing racist about that comment. What whites have done is documented. I don't need to look at anything but the facts.

 

[IM2]

Exhibit A

What you call racism by me is not racism. But you can't face the truth.

 

[Ropey]

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