Lloyd Marcus is a black American. I mention this only because it gives context to a little piece he writes for American Thinker. It's ostensibly about Rush Limbaugh, but one could substitute "read Conservative thought" for "listen to Rush Limbaugh" and the message would be the same. Here's what Marcus says:
I am a black man who, since 1993, has been a regular listener of the Rush Limbaugh radio program. I must caution black America. Be afraid, be very afraid of this powerful white man. Regular listening to him could be devastating to the psyche of the 96% of black Americans who voted for Obama. I have compiled the following Top Ten list of reasons why.
10. If you want to believe blacks are eternal victims in America, do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
9. If you do not want to take responsibility for your life, do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
8. If you are a dead beat loser who voted for Obama in hope of him redistributing what others worked for to you, do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
7. If you believe blacks can not achieve without lowered standards and intervention by government and liberals, do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
6. If you believe blacks who speak English correctly and are self sufficient are traitors, do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
5. If you believe black liberal Democrats (Sharpton, Jackson, Waters & Co.) are your friends rather than your slave masters, do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
4. If you do not believe self respect, pride and true self esteem comes from personal achievement, do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
3. If you want to hate your country and believe it is the greatest source of evil in the world, do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
2. If you want to believe rich white racist Republicans are burning the midnight oil thinking of ways to keep black America down, do not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
And the number one reason black America should fear regularly listening to Rush Limbaugh; they will become ditto heads.
Actually, I think the black Americans most likely to become disenchanted with the Democrat party that Rush is so critical of are those in the black middle and upper classes. These are people who have worked hard to get where they are. They have a stake in their communities. They pay taxes and care about the quality of their schools and neighborhoods, and eventually they're going to realize that the Democrats are doing nothing to make these things better.
The Democrats have a lock, however, on many among the chronically poor, whether white, black, or brown. These people pay very little in taxes, they live off the largesse and productivity of the greater society, their poverty is often a consequence of their own bad habits and choices in life, and they tend to vote for anyone who promises them that they'll get more goodies from the government if they do.
They're entitled to vote, of course, and everyone else is entitled to take comfort and hope in the fact that they usually don't.
RLC
