The shame of the black conservative

A black man worthy of respect

House negro

I don't want there to be any misunderstanding. Black people hate what Alan Keyes stands for.

I'm sure that some people like the guy, there are some useless fools who call themselves Republican. who do, but to most black people in America, he is simply a traitor. He betrays the community, the culture, everything good about being black.

You'll realize in a few weeks how much, when the good preachers of Chicago work his ass over, but until then, let me explain why black people hate his ideas like mailmen hate dogs. Well, some black folks, like Barack Obama's extended family may well hate him, and the homies of the South Side wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire and Osama was holding the torch. Oh, they'd get Osama, but Keyes, well.....

First, Malcolm X described sorry people like Keyes long ago.

To understand this, you have to go back to what [the] young brother here referred to as the house Negro and the field Negro -- back during slavery. There was two kinds of slaves. There was the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes - they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good 'cause they ate his food -- what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved their master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master's house quicker than the master would. The house Negro, if the master said, "We got a good house here," the house Negro would say, "Yeah, we got a good house here." Whenever the master said "we," he said "we." That's how you can tell a house Negro.

If the master's house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, "What's the matter, boss, we sick?" We sick! He identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself. And if you came to the house Negro and said, "Let's run away, let's escape, let's separate," the house Negro would look at you and say, "Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?" That was that house Negro. In those days he was called a "house nigger." And that's what we call him today, because we've still got some house niggers running around here.

This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about "I'm the only Negro out here." "I'm the only one on my job." "I'm the only one in this school." You're nothing but a house Negro. And if someone comes to you right now and says, "Let's separate," you say the same thing that the house Negro said on the plantation. "What you mean, separate? From America? This good white man? Where you going to get a better job than you get here?" I mean, this is what you say. "I ain't left nothing in Africa," that's what you say. Why, you left your mind in Africa.

On that same plantation, there was the field Negro. The field Negro -- those were the masses. There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lings" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.

*The field Negro was beaten from morning to night. He lived in a shack, in a hut; He wore old, castoff clothes. He hated his master. I say he hated his master. He was intelligent. That house Negro loved his master. But that field Negro -- remember, they were in the majority, and they hated the master. When the house caught on fire, he didn't try and put it out; that field Negro prayed for a wind, for a breeze. When the master got sick, the field Negro prayed that he'd die. If someone come [sic] to the field Negro and said, "Let's separate, let's run," he didn't say "Where we going?" He'd say, "Any place is better than here." You've got field Negroes in America today. I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about "our government is in trouble." They say, "The government is in trouble." Imagine a Negro: "Our government"! I even heard one say "our astronauts." They won't even let him near the plant -- and "our astronauts"! "Our Navy" -- that's a Negro that's out of his mind. That's a Negro that's out of his mind.

Just as the slavemaster of that day used Tom, the house Negro, to keep the field Negroes in check, the same old slavemaster today has Negroes who are nothing but modern Uncle Toms, 20th century Uncle Toms, to keep you and me in check, keep us under control, keep us passive and peaceful and nonviolent. That's Tom making you nonviolent. It's like when you go to the dentist, and the man's going to take your tooth. You're going to fight him when he starts pulling. So he squirts some stuff in your jaw called novocaine, to make you think they're not doing anything to you. So you sit there and 'cause you've got all of that novocaine in your jaw, you suffer peacefully. Blood running all down your jaw, and you don't know what's happening. 'Cause someone has taught you to suffer -- peacefully

The house negro like Keyes is adept at aping his masters, shuffling along and doing what his masters tell him to do. He will even be crazier than the master.

Alan Keyes' role model

Now, the idea is that people like Keyes are independent thinkers, not tied to the Democratic Party.

To someone on this side of the fence, the race fence, Keyes is a man of wasted potential, of brilliance, totally wasted. Instead, he rattles on like a crank and disgusts every black person within sight. It's as if black conservatives are simply ashamed to be black. As if they suffer from some deep, horrific self-hatred. That they would deny their culture and adopt the language of their enemies. I don't mean the GOP is their enemy, I mean people like Jesse Helms.

You have this totally insane house negro, Vernon Robinson, saying to voters, "white kids deserve a chance". I mean, why does he hate himself so much.

Now, I know being black isn't easy, and some people, unfortunately, are driven crazy. I mean did Keyes try to lighten his skin? Bathe in milk? Why did he have to try so hard to adapt the way of his masters.

It isn't even that he's a conservative. There are lot of people who are black and conservative, at least socially. But Keyes crossed over and decided to take stands which would hurt black people, to prove he wasn't like us. He wanted to be a special negro, one white people would like, would let run something.

But of course, they would no more do that than let him marry their daughters.

What is so sad is that these modern day Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas have gotten so little for selling their souls. They don't run the RNC, they aren't taken seriously. They drag a few out for a minstrel show every four years and let them buck and shuffle along until the dance is over. Black Republicans are despised by most black people. Now, my father was a Republican since he was old enough to vote, because in the 1950's, the Dems still had a bunch of crackers in them. If you were born in the South, you didn't become a Democrat before the Civil Rights movement. Jackie Robinson was a loyal Republican.

But these current wave buck and shine negros who run into the current GOP leave their dignity and their souls behind. Because at every turn, the master is insulting them, denigrating them, embarassing them.

When Giuliani was mayor, he had a black deputy mayor, Rudy Washington. A nice guy, but he was repeatedly stopped by police who didn't believe he was a deputy mayor. After a couple of humiliating episodes, he was regarded as a joke. A lackey of an openly racist mayor.

What I don't get is why people sell their souls to be junior members of the club. They never get the support or recognition they seem to crave. Their bitter, jealous denunciations of people like Al Sharpton rung hollow in the black comunity. When they adopt the language and ideas of their ideological slave masters, they lose all credibility with any black people around. Take Keyes insane rants on abortion. That was the language the black panthers used in 1970 and was soundly smacked down.

White people to this day probably don't know why Clarence Thomas is detested by black people. It's very simple, he committed a mortal, unforgivable sin. He denigrated his sister to make him self look good in the eyes of his white masters. His sister was poor and living in Georgia, while he was going to Yale Law. He basically said she was a victim of the "poverty mentality". Now most folks don't care if you kiss a little ass, but to offer your sister up, not only to make yourself look better, after she was left holidng the bag, but to offer up to white conservatives, well, that was that. He had done the one thing people didn't even do often in slavery, turn on your family to make white people happy. Jesus, you can a lot of shit, but that was so wrong, such a betrayal, it is literally unforgivable.

While black groups had lined up to support him, at the time, they soon realized their mistake and the depths of his pathology.

Black conservatives can roughly be grouped into two widely reviled groups, the desperate opportunists and the I'm better than those other colored folks.

A desperate opportunist is like Vernon Robinson, someone so self-loathing, he embraces anti-immigrant racism and denigrates himself before white voters. I think he thinks that's the quickest way to get to power. Talk like master, grovel to his peons and they may reward you. It's a sad shameful thing to see. A man so desperate for success he would turn himself into the black Jesse Helms, which is kind of like seeking to be the Jewish Julius Streicher. When black people hear of such a creature, Gollum comes to mind, but instead of the ring, it is white conservative approval he seeks. I mean, he might as well run around in blackface tapdancing for his prime time coon act. People like him take great pleasure in stepping on black people for white approval.

Now the I'm better than other colored people sort are desperate to prove that they can fit into white society, Ken Hamblin comes to mind. He is so eager to be loyal to his ideological masters, he parrots their lines and apes their manners to get approval. Sure, he tosses around Jesus, but on black radio, he's the punchline to a joke. This kind of psychosis pops up from time to time with some black people. They get plastic surgery, they avoid other black people. Former Wall Street trader Joseph Jett, before he got jammed up, was one of these negroes, so was Jayson Blair. Not just comfortable with white people, they eagerly sought their approval and adopted their ideas.

Why do so many black people loath the GOP?

Two words: Colin Powell

Oh, black people may not agree with him, they may not respect his stands, but they will not openly disrespect him. No matter how stupid he was in working for Bush and trying to be a Republican, he still had character and some dignity. His son is a douchebag, but that's another story. George Bush ignores and humilates him on a regular basis. When they all got in the room, the white men won the day, despite Powell's sane advice. Bush had to have him around, but it is clear that his is an emasuclated power.

The GOP booded this man in one of their conventions. Bush humiliated him about a trip to a conference in Africa, while his mistress/lackey Condi Rice nodded her head and smiled.

These are not ignorant people, but Powell thought as secretary of state he would shape foerign policy. Sorry, the black man is the figurehead, but has no real power to make policy. He's the policy eunich of Washington. Standing loyally by the callow Dauphin who mocks him.

Powell's sad fate is not an uncommon one.

Imagine two restaurants. One serves OK food, nothing flashy, but OK. The other restaurant is inviting you over, but when you get there, they spit in your food, serve you in the back and overcharge you. Now, even if the food is better, do you go back?

Well, the GOP openly disrespects their black members, brings them out for the coon show, but then hides them. They had their newest sambo, Michael Williams, on display in Boston. Like a good little negro, he tapdanced for his masters and then went back to Texas, having done his little jig. They find these Gollums among the desperate and depressed. Those who want to succeed at any price.

Another problem is that they find these creatures who often have scant morals. In the mid-90's, they dragged out this former criminal, Star Parker. She was a conservative, but bragged about her welfare scams. I was stunned. Did they think black people would accept this as a role model? Or Glenn Loury, who was a former coke addict while teaching? Or Shelby Steele, who's own brother is embarassed by him? These people are loathsome creatures. They are widely seen as betraying black society, not just politics. If they could keep their dignity, they might gain some respect.

Now, you might say Jesse Jackson, but I'll tell you he didn't get a free pass on his little dalliance. Yet, the GOP brings out these moral cripples and expect black people to take them seriously. They have no dignity, no pride and no common sense.

Alan Keyes is a gnome, a moral cripple compared to Barack Obama. He seems gnarled and shrunken, eager to do the bidding of his masters to destroy a black man who seems destined for greatness. Keyes wants to be the token negro who stops his rise. Most men, with any kind of sense, would shrink from that kind of thing. Not Keyes. He leaped right up, like the soulless creature that he is.

People need to understand that black conservatives are our shame, our embarassment. People driven mad to assimiliate at ANY cost, their soul, their dignity, common sense.

Look at the respect people like Tom Joyner, Tavis Smiley and even Oprah gets. They don't debase themselves for the approval of white people. They have character and dignity. Look at the gollum which is Alan Keyes and you see something entirely different, sadder, but different.

posted by Steve @ 12:12:00 PM