From his twenties until his very last day of life, John Lewis fought white racism. I know some people probably tried telling Lewis how he should stop and how he was a racist, or how he was obsessed with an issue that did not apply now. Or how he hated all white people. Lewis was born during the overt era of American apartheid. He was twenty-four before he could vote. He saw it all, and up until his transition, he did not declare that he was happy with the improvements he had seen so it is time to be quiet.
John Lewis saw the worst of segregation, a man who got his skull busted so that I can do the things I can today. Lewis will go down in history as one of the greatest Americans of all time. His sacrifice made it so black scan vote, enter more colleges, and have an improved quality of life. By every measure, this was a successful man. But until his last breath, Lewis told us that there is still work to do regardless of the improvements we have seen. If John Lewis, a man who saw the harsh reality of the past can say that, today’s black sell-outs have NOTHING to say.
Another American hero, Colin Powell, a black republican, was a pioneer in the military. He reached the top of his profession and ascended to one of the highest offices in our land. Powell, who also suffered the indignities of Jim Crow as a young serviceman, went to his final days telling America that we still have much to do regarding the issues surrounding race.
If both these men who saw the worst of American Apartheid can say that in the twenty-first century, we have come a long way relative to race, but we still have a long way to go, that’s the undisputed truth no one can deny. Therefore, you mealy-mouthed right-wing whites who choose to post in my threads can just STFU because you don't bring anything to the table worth listening to. If a black man is going to be a Republican, then he best be a Republican in the spirit of Frederick Douglass, you know, the man who stood in front of a crowd of whites who asked him to speak on July 5th, 1852, and he said this:
“What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.”
This is what blacks do who are not sell outs and Uncle Toms. Frederick Douglass did try talking about how Africans sold other Africans when he made that speech, nor did he try making claims about black slave ownership because 1 or 2 blacks owned some slaves. Neither did Lewis or Powell. And any black man or woman who cannot meet these standards should not be respected by anyone else in the black or the overall American community.
