by Fred Logan
The national Black community, as a community, is in the vanguard of the rising national resistance struggles that kicked Donald Trump’s right-wing, White racist butt clean out of the White House, the Oval Office, and the Rose Garden.
The historic role of Black unity in these struggles is what made Herman Cain, Jim Brown, and the other handful of Black folks who supported Trump news worthy.
In the US Black community support for Trump is an anomaly. In White America Trump supporters are the norm. In a racist society, Albert Memmi said, the racist is the norm, (see, The Colonizer and the Colonized).
But the antics of these Black anomalies do not detract one iota from the historical importance of Black struggle in Campaign 2020.
Joe Biden gave thanks to Black struggle for its central role in slowing down the rise of the rabid, racist US right.
Likewise, “Honest Abe” Lincoln, no friend of Black people, had to admit the North would not have won the US Civil War, which kept the United States intact, without the vital support of over 186,000 Black soldiers and many, many, more Black logistical supporters.
Without the shadow of a doubt, Donald Trump is the most facts-checked liar in world history. But he doesn’t give a damn that the whole world knows that he is the psychotic liar that he is. Still, NFL Hall of Fame football player, and longtime Trump groupie Jim Brown said he met with Trump and he believed what lying Trump told him, whatever that was.
To further justify his support for an out and out White racist, Brown said something about everyone has a right to their own opinion. That includes Brown and Trump.
Many of Trump’s opinions as public policy or social practice would be extremely dangerous for the Black community. In 2015-2016, Trump said he admired Benito Mussolini, the father of European fascism. In the 1930’s and 40’s, Mussolini’s Italian troops mass murdered thousands and thousands of African people in Africa.
Trump refused to condemn the White racist 2017 “Unite the Right’ rally in Virginia.
The KKK and neo-Nazis share Trump’s opinions along with Jim Brown and other Black anomalies in this pack.
Keep in mind a number of prominent long-time White conservatives, by no means friendly toward the Black community, said publicly that Trump was far too reactionary for them and they could not, and did not, support him.
The very conspicuous former NBA basketball player Shaquille “Shaq” O’Neal supported this very same Donald Trump who was and is too reactionary for some White folks on the right.
Some Black folks for Trump are Black folks who always argue first and foremost they are “individuals.” They don’t follow the crowd, that is the Black community. They do their own thing. So, they supported Trump.
In direct contrast, first and foremost, White folks support Trump in support of the White community and not for themselves as individuals. They voted in support of the collective White monopoly of power, wealth, privilege, and status. That is White supremacy.
White workers, women, and religious leaders put collective White racism over and above their individual class, or gender, or professed religious ethics.
Every now and then, we saw at some Trump campaign rally—they all had the trappings of an old-time lynch mob rally—one of these Black Trump supporters strategically positioned for the TV news cameras.
Some Black Trump-groupies argued the Black community protests in mass when the police kill Black people, but they argue the Black community does not protest what mainstream White America labels “Black-on-Black” violence.
That’s a low-down, bottom-of-the-slop-bucket lie, a Donald Trump-level lie.
Over the past 40 plus years, the mass struggle against illegal drugs and drug-related violence has been the most frequent social struggle in the Black community. In Pittsburgh, and elsewhere, the Black community, has led this struggle through hundreds, nay thousands of meetings, rallies, protests, and prayer vigils. We must call these sordid liars, the liars they are.
The late millionaire Herman Cain was a diehard Trump groupie. Cain ran around the country, refusing to wear a mask in the midst of a global pandemic, talking boo-coo trash for Trump. Cain committed suicide for Trump, or much, much more precisely “Foolicide.” For that, Cain should be made, posthumous, the official “Blacks for Trump” poster boy. He earned it.
In apartheid South Africa, the Africans who collaborated with White racism could not get way with the bankrupt defense, “The Black community is not monolithic.” And the same thing is true in the United States for the African Americans who supported and support Donald Trump.
The neo-Nazis, and KKK are very disappointed by Trump’s November 3 defeat. But they are by no means deterred. The US right is blazing ahead mobilizing, educating, and organizing the seventy-plus million White folks who knew exactly what they were doing when they voted for an out-and-out White racist on November 3. The January 6 right-wing attack on the United States Congress is one example of their organizing.
In these very dangerous times, the national Black community must keep a very close eye on all of the Black anomalies who supported the very dangerous Donald Trump.
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