More Pathologies of the White Conservative Soul: Did You Know that Socialist Thought Has Crippled Bl

[Donnachaidh]

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/03/28/more-pathologies-of-the-white-conservative-soul-did-you-know-that-socialist-thought-has-crippled-black-america/

Act fast because for a limited time only, the Right-wing Web site, Townhall, has a good two-for-one sale on pandering foolishness and ahistorical race-baiting.

As I have said many a time, the White Conservative Soul is quite ill. It is filled to the gills with the poisonous crack rock that is the politics of white racial resentment and victimology. In turn, this addiction is enabled by black conservative, professional Negro sycophants such as Herman Cain, Niger Innis, Juan Williams, Michael Steele, Allen West, and “journalist” Star Parker. Collectively, they are the metaphorical (if not literal) smokescreen for some of the most onerous policies of the New Right.

In their broken-record-like performance, popular black conservatives hit all the talking points as they smile, grin, shuffle, and legitimate a narrative in which black Americans are dumb, stupid, on a “plantation,” and incapable of making well-reasoned political choices. By implication, white people — and conservatives in particular — are endowed with a special wisdom and agency that black Americans are not. The premise from which the black conservative imagination flows is excreta-filled because of its utter disdain for the black community. The implications for their parroted Right-wing dogma are just as vile precisely because the wellsprings are so befouled.

Even given the low standards of intellectual rigor common to the Right-wing echo chamber, I always try to find a kernel of fact or historical truth in their utterances. John Rossomondo’s piece, “Socialist Thought has Crippled Black America” (where he, as the good, noble, white “father” offers resplendent insights into the “pathologies” of black people) is an epic fail even by the Right’s low standards.

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