(ThyBlackMan.com) Many conservatives – including a few Black accommodationists – are saying that Black people are being bamboozled into voting nearly exclusively for the Democratic Party. This is clearly a republican talking point, either that, or they believe that Black people are so stupid that we can be convinced to vote for people who have left no stone unturned to deprive us of our right to vote, and who repeatedly try to portray us as lazy criminals and dope fiends who are content to vote for anyone who will allow us to spend our lives on welfare. When put in that way it makes one wonder, what Black people could possibly be thinking? How could we not want to vote for a group people who portray us in that way?
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It seems to me, however, that a more pertinent question is how any Black person in America could proudly, or even quietly, declare themselves a conservative, or even think of voting for a Republican – any Republican?
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After all, the Republican Party has clearly demonstrated themselves to be the domestic enemy of the United States, with their policies, their governmental obstructionism, and with their seeming determination to hold America hostage to accommodate their corporate cronies. They’re,
literally, trying to punish America for electing President Obama under the pretext of addressing a national crisis that they created, just like every other economic crisis that the nation has experienced over the past one hundred years (The GOP: A One Hundred Year Record of Swindling the American People ).
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In addition, anyone Black person with even a casual understanding of the English language would recognize that “conservative,” by it very definition, means that they’re dedicated to “conserving” the values and traditions of the past. That alone represents a malevolent agenda for all Black people. Thus, any Black man who supports that agenda is either dumb, or self-serving. Period.
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But I have a theory about those who do cave in to become Black conservatives. I think they suffer from a form of “Stockholm Syndrome.” The Stockholm Syndrome is a psychiatric concept named to describe the psychological response of hostages who were locked in a bank vault for five days during a robbery in Stockholm, Sweden between August 23rd and 28th of 1973.
Some of the hostages were so traumatized during the ordeal that they began to confuse relief from blatant abuse with an act of kindness. As a result, they began to empathize with their captors. Many became so attached to their captors, if fact, that they refused assistance and even defended the criminals after they were released. We saw the very same effect in Patty Hearst after she was kidnaped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and also in Black collaborators during slavery – “Dim niggas talkin’ bout burnin’ our house down, Massa.”
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The Stockholm Syndrome is consistent with what I’ve suggested many times before – that since Black people are the product of the very same racist environment as White people, many Black people of weaker character have become just as racist towards other Black people as any mouth-foaming, sheet-wearing, White bigot, as any Black person who has ever worked for the United States Postal Service will eagerly attest. In addition, the epidemic of Black-on-Black crime in our inner cities, and the lack of darker skinned Black women in entertainment videos will also attest to this fact.
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Over the years many Black people have been conditioned to believe that having “arrived” means that you live as far away from other Black people as you can get, without leaving the county, and that you assume as many White attributes as you can accommodate without bleaching your skin – and some have even gone so far as to do that. But a small minority of Black people feel that the ultimate evidence that they’ve arrived is to assume conservative values – values that are renown for looking upon Black people, and the Black culture in general, with disdain.
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And then there are those Black people who go conservative, at the expense of the Black community, for personal gain. In his article, “My Republican Party has Abandoned Me,” Black Republican activist, Raynard Jackson, says the following:
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“For many years, I have approached the party and its supporters about underwriting programs to bring together Blacks who are Republican or lean Republican so we can weave them into every facet of the party structure. The answer is always, no! But, twice this year some of these same people have approached me about funding for some election year tricks that they (White Republicans) have conjured up and simply need a Black face to execute the plan. On these two separate occasions, these funders were willing to spend upwards of $20 million to have me organize a national campaign to identify Blacks who would be critical of President Obama.”
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Black people understand these facts intuitively, so no matter how many Herman Cains or Dr. Ben Carsons the Republican Party trots out, they’ll never obtain the Black vote. In fact, trotting out such people only serve to stoke the flame of our animosity even further, because it is clear that the GOP is not only trying to insult our intelligence, but they’re manipulating the very least among us to try to achieve that goal.
