(Todd A. Smith)
Former President Donald Trump told North Carolina’s Republican nominee for governor, Mark Robinson, “I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two.”
Unfortunately, the two to eight percent of Black people who support Trump have not said much to push back on such an asinine and disrespectful comment.
Black people who co-sign some of the reprehensible things that come out of the mouths of modern Republican politicians like former President Donald Trump should be ashamed of themselves.
There is nothing wrong with Black people being conservative.
However, there is something wrong with Black people supporting people and positions that are detrimental to the Black community going froward and the legacy of some of 0ur most revered icons.
North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor, Mark Robinson is the latest Black Republican that has forgotten he is Black just to appease racist White people like the former president.
Robinson has made incendiary comments about Black people, Jewish people and women, and that has won him enormous support from North Carolina Republicans.
But to compare someone, who makes hate a part of his regular vocabulary, to Martin Luther King Jr., who epitomized love and unity, is sacrilegious and blasphemous.
Trump referred to Robinson as “Martin Luther King on steroids.”
However, he should have labeled Robinson as Stacey Dash, Candace Owens, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and Justice Clarence Thomas (combined) on steroids because he is the definition of self-hate to the infinite power.
Robinson, and the other aforementioned members of the Black Self-Hate Hall of Fame, are just the type of Black people that racist White people use to justify their own racism.
If a Black person, who actually hates being Black, co-signs their hatred, then that White person could not possibly be as racist as they feel.
And if a self-hating Black person gets the approval of White people, they must be better than all those ghetto and uneducated Negroes that good White folks look down upon.
But unfortunately for those self-loathing Black folks, they are often discarded by those same White people when they are no longer needed to aid in the cause of White supremacy and privilege, just ask people like Dash and former political candidate Herschel Walker.
Nevertheless, some of those same Black folks continue to kiss up to people like Trump who have no respect for their community or culture.
Disrespecting King like Trump did should be one of many straws to break the camel’s back when it comes to Black support.
However, any self-respecting Black person knows “N-words for Trump” will continue to be house Negroes for Massa Trump.
Therefore, educating those n-words is the equivalent of flogging a dead horse.
But for those still redeemable, let us look at some of King’s famous quotes and compare them to some of Robinson’s infamous quotes to prove that both Robinson and Trump must be on some illegal substance more dangerous and addictive than steroids.
In a 2018 Facebook post, Robinson wrote, “This foolishness about Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash.”
About the 2018 blockbuster Marvel movie “Black Panther,” Robinson posted on Facebook, “It is absolutely AMAZING to me that people who know so little about their true history and REFUSE to acknowledge the pure sorry state of their current condition can get so excited about a fictional ‘hero’ created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by a satanic marxist. How can this trash, that was only created to pull the shekels out of your Schvartze pockets, invoke any pride.”
“Schvartze” is a derogatory Yiddish word for Black people.
In a video from 2020, Robinson said, “I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote. Do you know why? Because in those days, we had people who fought for real social change, and they were called Republicans.”
On the contrary, King said such unifying things as, “Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.”
The Nobel Peace Prize winner also said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’.”
King also said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
More apropos is the fact that King once said, “Never forget that everything that Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
And he said, “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to carry.”
King and the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement also had many women take positions of leadership and give their lives for the cause of equality.
It was a woman, gospel legend Mahalia Jackson, who urged King to tell those gathered on the National Mall about the dream, which led to him delivering his most well-known speech, “I Have a Dream.”
A man that built his legacy and life around love and nonviolence should not be compared to a man that spews hatred.
Furthermore, a former president who has encouraged his followers to act violently should never utter the name of the prince of nonviolence.
Most importantly, all Black Republicans should immediately rebuke the rhetoric of Robinson and Trump’s comparing of him to king because it shows a lack of intelligence and knowledge.
And as King once said, “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscience stupidity.”
