It his me the other day that the worst perpetrators of “blaxploitation” are black politicians. They pander to blacks rhetorically, but never make their lives better. But they use the PERCEPTION that they are the good people, the friends, the allies, to win elections and then use those offices to get rich. If you do two or three tours of the House, or 1 tour of the Senate, you will by some magical process be millions of dollars richer. We know this. But we tolerate it. Book deals for money losing books. Hundreds of thousands of dollars for $500 speeches. There are a hundred gimmicks. Low interest loans, shares in businesses, insider information, etc. etc.
But Clarence Thomas has never hurt any black people. He didn’t use them to get ahead. He didn’t use them to get himself noticed or rich.
No, Spike Lee and people like him did that. They are the real Uncle Tom’s who have forged close relationships with the white world to deliver access by rich white politicians to black audiences; to guarantee their loyalty; and who profit on the backs of the on-going problems which persist, generation after generation, uncorrected and largely unaltered, other than a table scrap of free iPhones or something like that every few years.
To my mind, faithless “friends” are vastly more dangerous than true enemies. And the indifferent are vastly preferable to both.