Life on the Old Plantation

La Shawn Barber

Upon meeting me, white liberals take one look at my skin and presume I'm a left-leaning, Congressional Black Caucus-supporting, racial preference-loving, pro-infanticide crony. They condescendingly offer opinions about "diversity and multicultural" this or "Democratic fundraiser" that. I usually excuse such transgressions because it's natural to quickly size up people based on information readily available. When I rebut these presumptions and share my deeply held conservative beliefs, however, I get open-mouthed stares.

With 90 percent of the black vote locked down tight, Democrats don't quite know what to do with the other 10 percent, so they pull the old plantation routine by turning blacks against each other. While the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) shamelessly attacks California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, a black conservative nominated by President George W. Bush for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, white liberals sit back and gaze upon their handiwork. It's life as usual on the old plantation.

Chains of physical bondage have been broken, but mental bondage still exists. Sometimes slave-owners recruited loyal blacks to be the overseers who crushed the will of other slaves longing to be free. Justice Brown--unlike the CBC--is not a slave to liberal dogma, and she is mercilessly berated as a result by the CBC and their white colleagues.

Slave-owners have always exploited human weakness to control slaves with fear, distrust, envy and lies, and the exploitation continues. You see, conservative blacks are the plantation system's greatest threat. We're the runaway slaves who followed the Underground Railroad to freedom. We're the "uppity Negroes" of the Jim Crow era who just won't stay in our place.

Modern-day plantation owners--white liberals--manipulate paranoid blacks into attacking each other in ways that would make a blackface performer blush. A black liberal web site (to remain unnamed) recently posted a shameful caricature that depicted Justice Brown as Clarence Thomas in drag. Without hesitation or reservation, blacks take the bait thrown out by white Democrats and viciously turn on one another. All the master has to do is sit back and watch. And laugh. Almost 300 years ago, a slave-owner named Willie Lynch assured other slave-owners it was that simple.

In 1712, Lynch (from whom the term "lynching" derived) delivered a speech on the banks of the James River in Virginia and shared his secrets to keeping slaves in line. One of his methods was to create division. "I take these differences [light skin vs. dark skin, young vs. old] and make them bigger. I use fear, distrust, and envy for control purposes. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South…. The Black Slave, after receiving this indoctrination, shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands."

Lynch's methods are still working today. In an attempt to malign Justice Brown's character, the acerbic Rep. Maxine Waters called her a "poster woman for the far right wing," and said that her "legal record and her views on civil rights and constitutional issues place her so far outside the legal mainstream." Right. So far outside the legal mainstream is Justice Brown that 67 percent of liberal Californians voted for her in 1998. Non-voting D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton added that Justice Brown was "cut from the same cloth as Clarence Thomas." Why?

Here are a few reasons why Democrats consider Justice Brown unqualified to sit on the D.C. Circuit:

She dissented in a California Supreme Court opinion that upheld the right of a child to have her unborn baby killed without her parents' consent. Right-wing nut! She wrote the opinion that upheld Proposition 209, a voter-approved measure outlawing the use of race in public university admissions and hiring in California, a direct threat to the professional grievance lobby. A race traitor!

In order to forward their far-left agenda, liberals know they must circumvent the U.S. Constitution and the will of the people, which Justice Brown vowed to honor. She wrote: "When fundamentally moral and philosophical issues are involved and the questions are fairly debatable, the judgment call belongs to the Legislature." This, in the words of legislator Sen. Edward Kennedy, is "despicable"! Justice Brown--and all independent thinkers--are a menace to plantation society. Old master Lynch warned other slave-owners about such people when he said, "It is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us. They must love, respect and trust only us."

Looks like old Willie was a prophet.

©2003 La Shawn Barber

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La Shawn Barber is a columnist for TheRightReport.com, also reviews books for Town Hall
barbersview@yahoo.com