North Carolina's Lieutenant Governor, Mark Robinson, is just the latest striking example of how the Republican Party supports and elevates black politicians, but only if their platform serves to advance the "white supremacists' agenda". Yes, very blunt words, but just the most basic of objective research will prove it.
Clay Cane's book The Grift, possibly the most important political book for this election cycle, is a must-read by all. It is a thoroughly researched and documented history of the political scene starting with Abraham Lincoln to the present day. He minces no words and name names in documenting how black Republicans are used by the white power brokers to provide cover for their explicit bigotry.
He gives many examples of black people being welcomed as long as they "know their place". The cost to them is to merely deny or significantly downplay the existence of racism in the country and blame any alleged inequality on the black victims themselves. The better they do that, the higher they may go. He states that is one of the greatest threats to the liberation of black and brown people. If in doubt, when was the last time you heard a black Republican attack Trump or even criticize congress for refusing to pass voter rights legislation or supporting anything that would help decrease inequalities?
Cane also has tough words for many Democrats too, in the likes of JFK, LBJ, and Joe Biden. He acknowledges that the political landscape is far from perfect, but pleads with his readers to understand that only one party tolerates members who promote white supremacy and who has no intention of ever giving up their majority power and domination over the people of color. And only one party, the Democrats, that fights for health care, voting rights, civil rights, equal justice, labor unions, increased minimum wage, paid family leave requirements, and among many other things, an environment with cleaner water and air, while the other party fights to block almost any attempt to bring meaningful and needed changes. Gerrymandering and the 60-vote filibuster make many things extremely hard, and often impossible, to pass.
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See author's recent article in OpEdNews: Many Reasons Why Trump is not a Friend to People of Color.
