By Paul Weiser
Everyone understands liberal guilt in its Hollywood and Jewish forms. What we must examine is how this powerful psycho-political trap works with American blacks.
Liberal guilt: You do well. Looking around, you can't help but feel that, despite your self-confidence and proven abilities you're really overpaid for your work (in the case of lawyers, movie stars, and top business executives vastly overpaid). You feel guilty. To assuage this guilt you try to force other people to help... other people. You're the A in A and B deciding what C shall do for D. In short, you're a liberal.
Now imagine a different but more tragic situation. You're a black couple; you stay married, control and protect your children and do, not extravagantly well, but well enough. You're living the American dream, but instead of thinking you're like most black Americans - which you are - you look at the inner- city thugs and gangsters. Misled by mainstream media, you believe that, instead of being ordinary, successful black citizens, you're part of a small minority of blacks which has had exceptional good luck. You mistake your peace and prosperity - which are well earned and, logically and economically, should make you Republicans - for riches unearned. You suffer liberal guilt and fall for black-racist hype of the "CIA invented AIDS and crack" variety.
This is a horrible situation, and the foundation of 90% black liberal voting when blacks' true individual and family interests are 80% conservative. Maintaining this false sense of guilty obligation also explains the vicious conformity to the hard liberal line demanded of the "talented tenth" by race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. For if the comfortable middle - the 80% of blacks who are neither ghetto scum nor political hacks - ever got wise, they'd all vote as Republican as George Washington Carver.
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