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

[scruffy]

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

You don't get it, do you?

You must be a leftie.

Categorizing people on the basis of skin color is racist. If I said "blacks talk too much", that would be racist, wouldn't it?

Because I'd be lumping all black people together on the basis of their skin color, instead of dealing with individuals and the cultural anthropology

You say, what "whites" have done. You categorize by skin color. Which is racist

For every white person that's done a bad thing, I can find a black person that's done worse. Or an Asian, or whatever other label I want to imagine belongs to the reason.

"What whites have done" is textbook racism on your part

 

[IM2]

You don't get it, do you?

You must be a leftie.

Categorizing people on the basis of skin color is racist. If I said "blacks talk too much", that would be racist, wouldn't it?

Because I'd be lumping all black people together on the basis of their skin color, instead of dealing with individuals and the cultural anthropology

You say, what "whites" have done. You categorize by skin color. Which is racist

For every white person that's done a bad thing, I can find a black person that's done worse. Or an Asian, or whatever other label I want to imagine belongs to the reason.

"What whites have done" is textbook racism on your part

I know what racism is I live with it. The facts of history show what I say to be correct. Now you have made some assumptions based on your own racism. Because I'm well aware that all whites aren't racists, but the reality you can't man up on is that whites did the things I am talking about. Racism is a BELIEF, I am talking about things that are called facts.

Definition of fact: 1 a: something that has actual existence. b: an actual occurrence. 2: a piece of information presented as having objective reality. 3: the quality of being actual. 4: a thing done. b archaic: action. c obsolete: feat Definition of opinion:1 a: a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter. 2 a: belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge. b: a generally held view. 3 a: a formal expression of judgment or advice by an expert. b: the formal expression (as by a judge, court, or referee) of the legal reasons and principles upon which a legal decision is based.

Now when I discuss race I'm talking about it in a systemic fashion. You cannot find where blacks or asians codified their racism into law and policy, then created an mechanism to enforce it. You cannot find where blacks, asians, etc., implemented laws and policies designed to exclude whites from competing in this system. Your little definition of racism is not the true definition.

So you go run along until you learn that the definition of racism involves the belief that a race is inherently superior or inferior. A belief is not fact. Redlining is a policy that whites implemented to denying housing to blacks. That is not a belief, that is fact supported by the FHA policy manual. So again, your argument is lacking. I am not a racist and I damn sure don't need some right winger trying to explain what racism is.

 

[j-mac]

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

Bull freaking shit! Blacks can be and are every bit as racist as whites…

 

[j-mac]

I know what racism is I live with it. The facts of history show what I say to be correct. Now you have made some assumptions based on your own racism. Because I'm well aware that all whites aren't racists, but the reality you can't man up on is that whites did the things I am talking about. Racism is a BELIEF, I am talking about things that are called facts.

Definition of fact: 1 a: something that has actual existence. b: an actual occurrence. 2: a piece of information presented as having objective reality. 3: the quality of being actual. 4: a thing done. b archaic: action. c obsolete: feat Definition of opinion:1 a: a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter. 2 a: belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge. b: a generally held view. 3 a: a formal expression of judgment or advice by an expert. b: the formal expression (as by a judge, court, or referee) of the legal reasons and principles upon which a legal decision is based.

Now when I discuss race I'm talking about it in a systemic fashion. You cannot find where blacks or asians codified their racism into law and policy, then created an mechanism to enforce it. You cannot find where blacks, asians, etc., implemented laws and policies designed to exclude whites from competing in this system. Your little definition of racism is not the true definition.

So you go run along until you learn that the definition of racism involves the belief that a race is inherently superior or inferior. A belief is not fact. Redlining is a policy that whites implemented to denying housing to blacks. That is not a belief, that is fact supported by the FHA policy manual. So again, your argument is lacking. I am not a racist and I damn sure don't need some right winger trying to explain what racism is.

Blah, blah, blah….tell yourself anything.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

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.

Is that what they are teaching you on the compound?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

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...

Fuck yourself fuck boy. Keep doing what you do best, sitting behind a computer screen wishing you were actually a tough guy.

 

[IM2]

Bull freaking shit! Blacks can be and are every bit as racist as whites…

When you show that blacks have done exactly the same things whites have done, I'll agree with you. But I doubt you will find laws and policies passed by blacks to purposefully deny whites of rights or opportunity.

 

[IM2]

Blah, blah, blah….tell yourself anything.

Wrong. What I posted is true.

 

[Canon Shooter]

Fuck yourself fuck boy. Keep doing what you do best, sitting behind a computer screen wishing you were actually a tough guy.

I'm tough enough. Certainly tough enough to handle your monkey ass...

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I don't need to look at anything but the facts.

And ignore the math.

 

[hadit]

When you show that blacks have done exactly the same things whites have done, I'll agree with you. But I doubt you will find laws and policies passed by blacks to purposefully deny whites of rights or opportunity.

Would South African farm seizure laws suffice?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

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

Do you even know where CRT comes from?

God, you are fucking ignorant.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

When you show that blacks have done exactly the same things whites have done, I'll agree with you.

When you show that I have done what others with the same skin pigment have allegedly done, then you won't be a racial bigot.

 

[WelfareQueen]

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.

I definitely think you're helpless. Give up now.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

I know what racism is I live with it. The facts of history show what I say to be correct. Now you have made some assumptions based on your own racism. Because I'm well aware that all whites aren't racists, but the reality you can't man up on is that whites did the things I am talking about. Racism is a BELIEF, I am talking about things that are called facts.

Definition of fact: 1 a: something that has actual existence. b: an actual occurrence. 2: a piece of information presented as having objective reality. 3: the quality of being actual. 4: a thing done. b archaic: action. c obsolete: feat Definition of opinion:1 a: a view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter. 2 a: belief stronger than impression and less strong than positive knowledge. b: a generally held view. 3 a: a formal expression of judgment or advice by an expert. b: the formal expression (as by a judge, court, or referee) of the legal reasons and principles upon which a legal decision is based.

Now when I discuss race I'm talking about it in a systemic fashion. You cannot find where blacks or asians codified their racism into law and policy, then created an mechanism to enforce it. You cannot find where blacks, asians, etc., implemented laws and policies designed to exclude whites from competing in this system. Your little definition of racism is not the true definition.

So you go run along until you learn that the definition of racism involves the belief that a race is inherently superior or inferior. A belief is not fact. Redlining is a policy that whites implemented to denying housing to blacks. That is not a belief, that is fact supported by the FHA policy manual. So again, your argument is lacking. I am not a racist and I damn sure don't need some right winger trying to explain what racism is.

Y'all ever notice that all of the alleged societal ills pimped by IM2 can only be cured by more government action to seize and redistribute wealth?

Not a commie.....at all.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

I'm tough enough. Certainly tough enough to handle your monkey ass...

I doubt it, but good for you to think you could.

I definitely think you're helpless. Give up now.

It doesn't matter what you think.

 

[daveman]

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.

Yes, that's what white Democrats tell you to believe, and you don't dare question them.

 

[daveman]

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.

That's stupid as shit, dude. He buys the food he likes. Same as you. Same as me. The race of the cook is immaterial.

 

[daveman]

The tard herd is being groomed to bleev the negroes were better off and a lot happier back on the slave plantation.

Yeah, outside of a handful of idiots, nobody believes that.

 

[daveman]

Is that what they are teaching you on the compound?

He's on your side, you moron.