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Proud liberal 80

(4,392 posts)
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 06:42 PM Aug 2020

Black conservatives favorite line

“I got off the plantation.”......but ironically if this was 1840 they would be the ones telling on the slaves who tried to escape the real plantations

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OAITW r.2.0

(31,731 posts)
1. It's a sad group of people who will loan the GOP their skin color to provide cover
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 06:46 PM
Aug 2020

for their political agenda. The money must be good, though.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
2. The implication is that the 90% of African Americans who choose to vote AGAINST the GOP
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 06:46 PM
Aug 2020

are ignorant or deluded. I don't know how well that will go over with the 90%.

Thomas Hurt

(13,975 posts)
3. The insincere concern for black folks is amazing with the christofasicsts...
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 06:46 PM
Aug 2020

Dem cities, black on black crime, still stuck on the plantation same old racist dog whistles.

Concern trolls making excuses for Trump's incompetence and lack of leadership.

Stallion

(6,642 posts)
4. You Know Where Else Black Democrats Are or will Be?
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 06:46 PM
Aug 2020

the White House, the Vice President's House, the Supreme Court, the Senate leadership, the House of Representatives Leadership, the Washinton Mall at the MLK Monument and we just lost a great, historic leader whose body lay in state in the Capitol

We don't need to take that Plantation shit because it is demonstrably wrong

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
5. Sad that they side with the party which is also the home...
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 07:13 PM
Aug 2020

of racists, nazis, the KKK, white supremacists and alt-right scumbags. They're people on the make who like to think the party sees them as 'different' from those other black people, but that's a lie they tell to themselves. What they really are are transactional opportunists with something to sell who don't stand out as well in the bigger Democratic Party pond with all manner of other POCs.

And the thing they have to sell is themselves.

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