Thus, it's not exactly that anyone is expecting blacks to do anything that many black radicals and progressives have, themselves, asserted, argued, etc. The most widely read example of the first clarion call espousing such an identity politics, which clearly suggests people of color should be smarter than whites is The Combahee Collective's statement where they claim that it is by virtue of their extreme marginalization from society that black lesbians would be the ones to make that first "revolutionary leap" paving the way for -- snap! -- radical social change of the sort so many believed was happening at the time.
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Yes, there it is, the medicine this headache of a thread sorely needed.
I was hoping you'd have time to make this very relevant point, which is something avid bitchlab readers had the pleasure of reading some time ago.
Michael Smith wrote:
Forget about the first 'A' for a minute -- just assume they're 'normal' Americans, as that LA police chief memorably said. Assume they're answering these pollsters based on the same media representations of reality as their melanin-challenged cousins. 'What's the matter with Harlem?' doesn't seem to me a harder question to answer than 'what's the matter with Kansas' -- in fact, it's probably the same answer, don't you think?
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Just so.
People! Please oh please stop expecting black Americans to be super human, to be immune from the myth of America, to carry inoculation against propaganda, to be steely-eyed double agents of the Left, waiting for their main chance to change the world.
It's so very simple: if you're conventionally liberal, the Democratic party is your only choice.
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