Thinking back to a previous post, I will continue by saying that I would even go so far as to say cooning goes beyond being a mere pointless insult to the point of also being a sociopolitical ideology and an informal political party – one that only self-hating Blacks can have and be a part of. With whites, it’s just racist ideology. Some call it conservative, which means sticking to traditional values and customs. But what’s more traditional in America than racism?
These are the values and principles this country was founded on. That’s why I look at every Black conservative with a side-eye. I don’t automatically write them off in my mind as a Sambo sellout when I see them introduced on TV as a conservative. But I do think that his or her views and talking points had better be good. Ten times out of ten, they aren’t. Be that as it may, they have a right to their opinion, just as l have a right to critique their opinion for good, bad, indifferent – or woke, coon, or apolitical/innocently stupid but sometimes meaning well.
Who are the Sambos?
A few years ago the great Charles Barkley said, “I don’t know if slavery was all that bad.” That’s his opinion and “healthy dialogue.” Most outraged Blacks felt it was fair game to also opine with “healthy” justifiable harsh criticism that he is a bootlicking Sambo for that. It’s harsh, but not gratuitous. Conservatives just want to buck dance for their racist handlers without judgmental impunity from Black America.
A few years ago, the great Stephen A. Smith quoted a statistic of most of the NFL players with domestic violence charges being Black. His white former co-host, Skip Bayless, had to school him with a sense of perspective on the cherry-picked statistic. He reminded his shucking and jiving counterpart, that most of the NFL players are Black anyway, so naturally the majority of domestic violence cases of NFL players will be Black. Stephen A. seemed to imply that the NFL wife-beating stat of Black players correlates with Black men in the rest of society. He has a right to his opinion and to spread a negatively distorted image against his own people to some white person in Iowa or Montana who has little to no association with Blacks other than watching them on TV and watching people like him describe us on TV. He received a backlash for that by Black America. I guess Blacks felt they also had a right to intuit his whitewashed logic and buck dancing heart for what it is. In hindsight, Stephen A. might have just made an innocently stupid gaffe that sounded like a Sambo. But he doesn’t strike me as a real Sambo like the repeat offenders like Jesse Lee Petersons, Candace Owens, Larry Elders, and Barkley’s buck dancing tirade he went on for a good period.
C-list actress Stacy Dash once said Black History Month and BET channel should be eliminated as if Blacks are fairly represented in the rest of His-story and other forms of media. That c-list reference to her Hollywood status was petty and childish of me, but calling her a Sambo is relevantly calling a spade a spade. FYI, I don’t hate any of them either. I just hate their white-washed logic.
Side note: Stacy Dash’s racist bosses and handlers have fired her and now she’s crawling back to the Black community.
