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Originally Posted by sublime
can you educate me some here?
I'll be you can work through it on your own.
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by 'you guys' i assume you mean the right end of the political spectrum
See? You got this.
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how much about Malcom X do you know? the modern day democrat just assumes every black person is liberal
Wrong.
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The man flat out loathed the democratic party. you need to remember when he was a child the democratic party was in cahoots with the KKK, doing their absolute best to MURDER every BLACK republican on the planet.
Did those pre-Southern Strategy Democrats have liberal or conservative views on race relations? Think carefully.
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so, what i guess im saying is i don't understand why the right needs to appropriate Malcolm?
Because you guys on the right don't have any interesting conservative intellectuals of your own to trot out. The left has Malcolm X and James Baldwin, you have.... William F. Buckley? Hence this constant game of conservative Republicans appropriating people like X, MLK, Frederick Douglass and pretending they would ever have been on your side of the aisle.
Notice how this never goes the other way? The left doesn't ever pretend that the John Birch society were actually hardcore liberals. That's partially because they're operating in good faith, but also because they just don't have to do so.