1. Do you always think in absolutes? Of course you do. You're conservative.
PS. PhD Philosophy Georgetown ... You better run your ideas past me in the future so you don't post such nonsense anymore.
You Personally… KEY WORD, personally ‘think’ ALL conservative philosophy is flawed. That simply means that you have an extremely biased opinion for whatever reason, and you use a non-technical social degree to give credibility to your biased and grossly misinformed opinion.
Then posters come dap you because it seems like you made good points, and it sorta fits into their own personal ideology. I guess it doesn’t matter that you’re incorrect and historically inaccurate.
To start off by saying that black political philosophy started post-civil war and only borrowed ideas from White conservatives is inaccurate. Black conservatives weren’t ineffective and obscure pre-civil war. You say they were, but based on what, compared to what? As blacks gained power and prominence in American society – both black liberal and black conservative ideologies paralleled that gain in influence. And FYI no black political philosophy is mainstream, even today in 2013.
You’re equating black oppression with white conservative ideas.. which is sad as hell. That is the reason that white liberal ideology is more troublesome in most instances, because it’s more difficult to dig yourself out of a hole – if you’re under the impression that no one is holding you there and that the way you got there is the same way you can get out (aka white liberal ideas). At least black conservatives (who aren’t simply puppets) realize what needs to happen, and realize that self-sufficiency not handouts is the most effective means of self-preservation and improvement. I've used every handout, even food stamps, etc... But I realize that dependance shouldn't be for us.
The ‘far left’ didn’t trick black people into anything… And that’s not the idea or point a black conservative would make. The truth is that blacks were originally enslaved ,then oppressed, then banned from equal opportunity… and finally forced into communities with limited resources… so far left ‘dependency on government and others; as long as you side on the frivolous leftist issues as well’ agenda was very appealing towards the bottom classed of our society. Black politicians and media figures pushed the masses towards the end goal of over 90% of us giving blind votes and accepting our continued demise via dependency and false precipitation of full acceptance.
You have MLK and his ideas all wrong. Completely wrong, so get your money back.
You can’t say that the original black conservative ideology is simply a copy of white conservative ideology. First off, black people can think for themselves, and have done it for millions of years, refined it over 200K years ago, and have only had to deal with horrible intentions for about 6K years.
Black liberal agendas aren’t always a copy of white ideas either. There are cross over ideas, but there are different goals and motivation. Today the motivation is to correct our current ills and increase economic power. Post slavery the white conservatives wanted segregation as a method of continued oppression. Black conservatives wanted to consolidate economic power and also (correctly) assumed the smart thing to do wasn’t to beg, cry, and compromise for a seat at the table you help to build – but to build your own table, of course within the framework of the society you were forced to be a part of; however, the end goal is to be prosperous and focus on your community taking advantage of the opportunities that were once denied.
Do you even realize how dangerous it is to have this glamorized idea that only the conservative South wanted segregation, the whites in the north were ok, white liberals would have promoted black causes and marched- even without black conservative and black religious figures putting the catalyst out there, and that liberal ideology is the savior of the blacks in America?