Democrats of today of course act incensed at such accusations, insisting that blacks like Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Allen West, and others act against their own best interests and those of blacks in general.
Liberals would undoubtedly point out that the vast majority of African Americans vote Democratic, and this is true. About ninety percent of them typically vote Democrat (out of the ones that vote), while more like ninety five percent voted for Obama.
But what they don't realize is this was true throughout the Jim Crow era. Like today, blacks in the Jim Crow, Democrat dominated South, felt they had no other choice.
It should also be pointed out that the many freedom-yearning blacks of the old southern slave states who dared to try to escape on the underground railroad probably likewise made up a very small percentage of the general population, most of whom were either content to remain as slaves, or afraid to try to achieve freedom. To be raised in shackles and chains and inculcated with a belief that you are inferior by reason of your birth and race has to have a debilitating effect on your outlook. How can you accept such a station in life without being filled with self-loathing and an overall feeling of worthlessness. How would you even cope if you suddenly were free?
Its probably no accident that black conservatives tend to be self-supporting as opposed to dependent on government support. Even those who may have gotten a hand up at one time, to attend school or other reasons, tended to not engage in a continuous lifestyle of government handouts. For the most part, they are not involved with drugs or gang violence. They might not all be renowned albeit controversial jurists, successful politicians, or millionaire businessmen and CEOs, but they do show a marked ability to achieve and maintain a lifetime of success.
Why in the hell would they want to go back willingly to a system that promises them a subsistence level income and an attitude that suggests they just can't make it without government help, which is instilled daily in their neighborhoods, churches, and schools?
Wild horses couldn't drag them back to that world. They have too much self-respect to live that way, and too much integrity to join the ranks of the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons in helping to force it on their own people.
That is exactly why they are the objects of scorn and derision, and even outright hatred, by the liberal Democratic elites, and even by their own people. It is an intensity of dislike born out of fear. In the case of their own people, it is a fear of the unknown, much the same as black slaves held in loathing those escaping slaves who felt they had made it harder on all of them. They would have probably willingly doled out a brutal punishment against any recaptured slave for much the same reason. To prove their loyalty, and their "worth".
As for the Democrats, those limousine liberals who have kept blacks in line for all these decades, the escaping African American conservative represents a dire threat to their power and supremacy over their political and societal plantation system. This is especially true should they achieve success in the world. They represent a way out, an escape from the slavery from which far too many black families have truly never been free.
