I’m reminded of a very pivotal scene in the mini- series Roots in which the main character, Kunta Kinte, escapes from his plantation to seek a woman he knew from his youth in Africa who lives in another plantation.
When he arrives at that plantation and finally finds the woman, Fanta, that he’s loved and been separated from for so many years, he asks her to escape with him and head North for freedom.
She refuses to go because she doesn’t want to be haunted down and killed.
She refuses to be called by her African name.
She no longer understands her former African language.
And even though she’s been raped by her slave master and mistreated in other ways, she’d rather stay on that plantation and survive because it’s all she knew.
Kunta doesn’t understand her at all because all he thought about was escaping slavery and returning back home to his land ever since they both came across the ocean on the same slave ship.
Fanta had the plantation mentality locked in solid the same way African Americans feel they must support the Democrat Party. It’s all they know and it’s all they’ve been socialized to accept by Liberals.
That’s why Herman Cain has hit a sensitive spot because the hold the Democrat Party has had on the African American community has always been a house of cards. Enough time has passed and succeeding generations have seen that it’s all been lie after lie and false promise after false promise.
Politico
Black voters have not been “brainwashed,” and suggesting as much — as Herman Cain and Pat Buchanan have recently — is demeaning and derogatory, Jesse Jackson said Friday.
“Those are very strong words,” the veteran civil rights activist told POLITICO. “It’s both demeaning and insulting.”
Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and a Republican presidential candidate, on Wednesday told CNN that black voters have been “brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.”
“I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative,” Cain told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “So it’s just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.”
On Thursday, Buchanan, an MSNBC contributor, endorsed that view.
“I admire Herman Cain for standing up and going against, if you will, the conventional wisdom, and being a tough African-American businessman who succeeded in a tough world,” Buchanan said.
He said blacks had been hurt by programs championed by Democratic presidents like Lyndon B. Johnson.
“Great Society liberalism has been devastating for the African-American family. … I think what he’s saying that they bought an awful lot of liberal propaganda on the liberal plantation, and I think he’s right,” Buchanan said.
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The nightmare for the Democrat Party is when the African American community politically evolves to become “independent minded” and no longer robotically votes Democrat. And that day is coming sooner than a lot of people think.
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