Why are progressives cheering the fact that it is a black man, Enrique Tarrio who gets the longest sentence in the January 6 show trials—a black man who wasn’t even at the Capitol that day? Because black men are not supposed to associate themselves with western chauvinism and conservative and populist politics.
It’s the same reason Harrison Floyd, who served as director of Black Voices for Trump, was the only one of the nineteen defendants in Fani Willis prosecution of those who questioned the 2020 results denied bail and sat in an Atlanta jail for several days.
Black men are supposed to be in the progressive camp, not on the side of democratic-republicanism and restoring the American Republic. The cultural left believes they own blacks and therefore define who they are and what they should believe. When blacks act contrary to their designated role, they are viewed as especially offensive to the progressive establishment.
Remember when Joe Biden told Charlamagne (a black man) on the radio show The Breakfast Club that “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black”? That didn’t come out of the blue. Biden is fully embedded in the progressive ideology that sees black conservatives as not really black. They’re imposters. They’re race traitors. They’re called other things I cannot say or I will be censored or de-platformed.
For progressives, black is not about ancestry but about politics. Black Lives Matter is a slogan of the hegemonic power of the progressive establishment.
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