[Cboldt]

-- The ones flocking to Sharpton, Jackson, and other black radicals are the descendants of those turned loose by the white man in 1865. They are looking for special treatment and favors, hating the white man and hating blacks who "act white." They don't want to get along, they want to get even. --

I don't think so. I think it's a more modern phenomenon. Communism, Marxism, leftism, progressivism - whatever, in many forms. There is an appeal to the worst parts of human nature, and unfortunately, PT Barnum (or whoever said it) was right - "a sucker born every minute." Here we have many lined up with a lottery mentality, "owed reparations," something for nothing. And Johnson's "Great Society" enabled that to grow and fester.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Those are excellent points and absolutely they are super major factors!

I want to make clear however for anyone reading this but not reading my original reply.. I make a distinction between blacks who freed themselves before 1865 and those who did not. The former may be the ancestors of today's conservatives.