[miss marmelstein]

Funny how the further we get from slavery, the more blacks cling to it.

[PeterPrinciple]

Funny how the further we get from slavery, the more blacks cling to it.

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Slaves never want to be free, they want to be the masters.

[ClearCase_guy]

Yes. Huge irony that Spike Lee is attacking these people with “We love you Massa” but the fact is that Spike is the one who is stuck on the plantation doing exactly what he’s told to do.

[rlmorel]

I would edit your post to say "...Funny how the further we get from slavery, the more some blacks cling to it..."

I admit I am encouraged by signs that there are blacks who recognize the damage the Left has done to them, and aren't going to simply vote as a block for them anymore.

[Gay State Conservative]

[Steve_Seattle]

"Funny how the further we get from slavery, the more blacks cling to it."

I was thinking the same thing last night. Every time I see Candace Owens on Fox debating one of the old-guard of Democratic black loyalists, it occurs to me that the old-timers are really clinging on to victimhood as part of their identity. They live in the past, it is essential to their identity, and do not want to assume the status of integrated citizens. They want to be something special in a negative way, as victims, rather than as autonomous members of society who were freed from slavery more than 150 years ago and Jim Crow more than 50 years ago.

Recent immigrants from Africa have a very different mentality. They get jobs, work hard, value education for their children, and are often appalled by American black "culture" - rap, gangs, drugs, single-parenthood, crime, willful ignorance, and all that goes with it.