The Great Manipulation: How Marxism Hijacked Black Grievance for Political Power
There exists in America today a carefully cultivated narrative, repeated endlessly across media platforms, academic institutions, and political campaigns. It tells us that America is irredeemably, systemically racist. It tells us that Black Americans remain trapped in an oppressive structure designed to deny them opportunity, dignity, and success. It tells us that the 2016 election of Donald Trump was not a political outcome but a racial reckoning, proof positive that the nation’s original sin remains unforgiven and unredeemed.
There is only one problem with this narrative: it is demonstrably, empirically false. And those who propagate it know it is false. They are not mistaken; they are strategic. They have identified in Black grievance the most potent political weapon available to advance an agenda that has nothing to do with racial justice and everything to do with the wholesale transformation of the American republic. A recent social media post, written by a Black veteran and twice Obama voter who now supports Donald Trump, lays bare this manipulation with devastating clarity. The post is not the rant of a right-wing extremist. It is the testimony of a man who has lived through the shift, watched the narrative change before his eyes, and recognized the lie for what it is.
Let us examine the timeline, because chronology is the enemy of propaganda. The “systemic racism” panic did not emerge from the long arc of civil rights struggle. It did not follow the election of America’s first Black president, an event that should have marked the culmination of that struggle. It emerged, as the post correctly notes, in the final years of the Obama administration, accelerated dramatically after Hillary Clinton’s unexpected defeat in 2016, and achieved full hysteria following the tragic but misrepresented death of George Floyd. The triggering event was not a new wave of racial oppression but a political loss. The narrative was not born of evidence but of electoral desperation.
Consider the foundational myth of this movement: “Hands up, don’t shoot.” It was chanted in streets, printed on t-shirts, repeated by members of Congress, and taught to schoolchildren. It was a lie. The Department of Justice, under Attorney General Eric Holder himself Black investigated and concluded that Michael Brown had not surrendered with his hands raised but had assaulted a police officer and attempted to seize his weapon. Black witnesses confirmed this. The evidence was clear. Yet the lie persisted because the lie was useful. It provided the emotional fuel for a political realignment that would cast the Democratic Party’s electoral setbacks not as policy failures but as moral outrages requiring systemic revolution.
This is the Marxist playbook. It has been executed countless times across countless societies. Identify a genuine historical injustice. Exploit its emotional resonance. Generalize it from a specific wrong to a universal condition. Transform victims into permanent victimhood. And leverage the resulting resentment to dismantle existing institutions and concentrate power in the hands of those who claim to speak for the oppressed. The targets are always the same: the family, the church, private property, the rule of law, national sovereignty, and the very concept of objective truth. The methods are always the same: accusation, division, and the relentless repetition of narratives that cannot survive honest scrutiny.
The post’s catalog of Black achievement undercuts the systemic racism thesis more effectively than any ideological rebuttal. A Black president. A Black attorney general. The world’s greatest golfer and greatest female tennis player. The most popular talk show host and pop star. Dominance in professional basketball. Network television hosts. A billionaire entertainment mogul. And perhaps most staggering: if Black American wealth were its own nation, it would rank as the eighth-largest economy on earth. No other country, not a single one, has produced such concentrated success among its Black population. Not the nations of Africa, with their centuries of independent governance. Not the European powers that once presided over vast colonial empires. Not Brazil, with its large and historically significant Afro-descendant population. Only the United States.
This is not to deny the persistence of racism, the reality of disparate outcomes, or the painful legacy of slavery and segregation. Conservatives do not argue that America has achieved racial perfection; we argue that America has achieved racial progress unmatched in human history, and that the path to further progress lies in accelerating the principles that produced this success free enterprise, equal protection under law, colorblind justice, and cultural assimilation to American civic values not in abandoning them for European-style socialism or postmodern identity politics.
Yet the Marxist Left requires perpetual grievance. A Black president is not evidence of progress but of co-optation. Black billionaires are not success stories but exceptions that prove the rule of oppression. Black conservative voters are not exercising political agency but suffering from false consciousness. The narrative must be insulated from refutation at all costs, because if Black Americans were to recognize that the greatest obstacle to their advancement is no longer systemic white supremacy but the progressive policies that have devastated Black families, neighborhoods, and schools, the entire edifice of modern leftism would collapse.
This is why the response to Black conservatives is not debate but denunciation. We are not fellow citizens with differing policy preferences; we are traitors to our race, Uncle Toms, sellouts. The accusation of racial betrayal serves the same function as the accusation of systemic racism: it forecloses inquiry, punishes dissent, and maintains the political cohesion of a voting bloc upon which the Democratic Party’s electoral strategy depends. The left does not need Black votes to govern; it needs Black votes to legitimate its governance, to cloak its redistributionist agenda in the moral authority of the civil rights movement.
The post’s author identifies himself as a two-time Obama voter who has voted for Donald Trump three times. His journey is not unique. Across the country, Black Americans—particularly men, particularly veterans, particularly those who work with their hands and build their own businesses—are quietly abandoning the Democratic coalition. They are not being converted by conservative media personalities or seduced by white nationalism. They are observing the results of progressive governance in their own communities: failing schools, unaffordable housing, family disintegration, and a culture that celebrates victimhood while punishing excellence. They are watching cities governed for decades by Democrats descend into disorder and decay. And they are asking a simple question: what, exactly, have we gotten in exchange for our loyalty?
The answer is nothing but slogans. The answer is rhetorical performances of solidarity unaccompanied by tangible improvement. The answer is the systematic destruction of the very institutions the nuclear family, the Christian church, the small business, the trade union, the neighborhood school—that enabled Black Americans to rise from slavery and segregation into the middle class. The answer is being used.
Conservatives must meet this moment not with cynical appeals to racial resentment but with a positive, principled, and colorblind vision of American citizenship. We must honor the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr., who demanded that individuals be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. We must champion school choice, economic opportunity, safe neighborhoods, and strong families—policies that transcend race and benefit all Americans. And we must tell the truth, even when it is uncomfortable, even when it is unfashionable, even when it costs us.
The lie of systemic racism is destroying this country. It poisons the wells of civic trust, convinces young Black Americans that their fate is sealed before they draw their first breath, and provides moral cover for a political movement whose ultimate objective is not racial justice but revolutionary transformation. The truth is that America, for all its flaws, remains the greatest engine of human advancement and opportunity the world has ever known. And the truth is that the Marxist Left will never admit this, because their power depends on convincing Black America that we are still enslaved. We are not. We are free. And it is time we started acting like it.
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