[MrB]

I heard an adult black man in 2000 declare that if Bush became president, we’d return to slavery, and he was having none of that.

Now, do they really believe this, or is it just “cultural hyperbole”?

[newzjunkey]

Now, do they really believe this, or is it just “cultural hyperbole”?

AlGore campaigned with Jesse Jackson and Stevie Wonder telling black audiences Bush saw them as 3/5ths of a person.

[DoughtyOne]

I heard an adult black man in 2000 declare that if Bush became president, we’d return to slavery, and he was having none of that.

Now, do they really believe this, or is it just “cultural hyperbole”?

Either way it's sad. If they truly believe it, it's tragic. That mindset couldn't be good even for them. And as a body of people, it would indicate a severe disadvantage when coping with employment.

If it's just hyperbole, it's unfortunate to even mouth that stuff. There are bound to be kids around at times, and what that mindset would imply to them would be terribly destructive.

[FerociousRabbit]

“I heard an adult black man in 2000 declare that if Bush became president, we’d return to slavery, and he was having none of that.

Now, do they really believe this, or is it just “cultural hyperbole”?”

Actually he was right. Bush became president and they returned to slavery... just under Obama.

[danielmryan]

I think they really do believe that. It's been ingrained into them that they climbed up the ladder with the help of (Democrat) government, so they conclude that without that same government they'd fall right back down to the bottom.

Ever notice that the people who say things like, "If the Republicans win... we'll go back to the cotton fields/ we'll go back to the barrio/we'll wind up poor and starving [etc.]" are people that got up the ladder with the aid of government programs? By saying that they'll die by the sword (if Republicans get in) they're really saying that they live by the sword.

If you're looking for the source of that insidious plantation mentality, that's it. Those people really think that Democrat policies are what made them rise up from poverty, not their own efforts.

That's why so many black people with steady jobs and good prospects, who pay lots of taxes, talk like they're on welfare assistance. I have a hunch that the monolithic Democrat vote is caused by that "government made me" mentality.

If you're looking for a way to make them question it, that's positive, you could ask them: "Where did you get the idea that government pulled you up instead of your own work pulling you up? Why so hard on yourself?"

[Nea Wood]

Now, do they really believe this...

I don't think they really believe it. I think they say it because they know it turns some whites into sniveling, trembling puddles of guilt. Then those guilty whites will give, give, give blacks whatever they want. Just my opinion.