Awareness that the message of MLK was long ago subverted and twisted 180 degrees by self-anointed Black "leaders". Awareness that welfare and race preferences created a dead end that keeps blacks on the federal plantation, dutifully begging for more handouts and mouthing the Democrat party line. Awareness that, for blacks, Democrat=Dependency.
Somethin's bubblin'.
Somethin's bubblin' up from the black community. And it doesn't wear giant pants, heavy gold chains and sport a street swagger.See also a Free Republic search for "Jesse Lee Peterson"
This new thing is the most frightening terror ever to threaten the Anti-assimilation poverty pimps known as the Left: it is true Black Awareness.
Not to hijack the thread, or anything, but the flood of third-world immigrants is going to "bubble" the black community.
Blacks continue to get mileage for injustices done to their ancestors from ancient history. (Oh, boo hoo.)
But the third worlders don't have much sympathy for outdated black struggles. Why? Because these people have hard times in the here-and-now.
Mexicans have just displaced blacks as the largest minority in America. And I doubt the Mex's will be sympathetic to blacks demands for reparations.