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Racial Bigotry; White America’s Foremost Addiction – BlackFaces Again.

February 14, 2019 by  
Filed under News, Opinion, Politics, Weekly Columns

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(ThyBlackMan.com) At this point, there should be no surprise when a report surfaces regarding a high-ranking elected official “blackening up” during some period of their life. The problem for Black America is that such figures possess much power over their lives. The latest in a long line of such Whites is Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring whose attempt at humor nearly 40 years ago, the emulation of famed rapper Kurtis Blow, with a minstrel show performance of a rap song would have made Thomas Daddy Rice proud.

Although I am sure that the presence of a photo of Mark Herring in Blackface removes the compulsion to deny his role in this sordid tale, such proof does nothing to reduce the reality that Mark Herring has untold influence over the lives of Black folk. The discussed situation is akin to Joseph Mengele, a German Schutzstaffel officer andphysician in the Auschwitz death camp, being placed in charge of Jews during World War II. Although Herring is not charged with the slaughter of Blacks, his significant influence over the lives of a population he abhor is no less dangerous.

Alas, one has to understand that this persisting problem that the great scholar W.E.B. Du Bois termed “the problem of the twentieth-century” does not lay at the feet of Black America. Racial bias, hatred, and bigotry emanate from a White America that has never retreated from a haughty colonial position that it is “either their way or the highway” for those who oppose their worldview and politico-economic monopolies. Truthfully, it is easy to compose a convincing argument that White America’s addiction to Opiates is secondary to a viral infection passed to a white fetus by their mother and reinforced by all they encounter during their life. The foremost symptom of the alluded to viral infection is racial bigotry and a lifetime dedication to white world supremacy via politics, business, and education. When one considers the repeated chicanery surrounding elections, it appears that the unspoken mantra of Whites seeking to hold onto their power by any means necessary is “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.”

It is for the above reasons that the photos of Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring “blackened up” does not raise my ire; if such matters angered me I would be the personification of the great social critic James Baldwin’s observation that “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” Put simply; Herring’s antics are par for the course when dealing with Whites.

As mentioned above, racial bigotry is White America’s problem as it has its genesis there and a comfortable place to rest undisturbed among Whites occupying various political beliefs and lifestyles. Unfortunately for Black America, the racial bigotry that a figure like Mark Herring has carried his entire life impacts Black America in an unconscionable manner; and that is not going to cease any time soon.

Staff Writer; Dr. James Thomas Jones III

Official website; http://www.ManhoodRaceCulture.com

One may also connect with this brother via TwitterDrJamestJones.


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