Lloyd Marcus is one of the most visible members of the Tea Party. You may be confused as to why he joined but he took the time to explain it to us. Let's look inside the mind of Black Tea Partiers...
I had the misfortune of running across an article in The Guardian from one of the most vocal and visible Tea Party members out there because…well…it really helps when he’s onscreen. In this magical article, Lloyd Marcus lays out a personal story in order to explain why he’s just so darn awesome.
“A urine smell permeated the stairwell. In the darkness due to smashed light bulbs, the sound of broken wine bottles underfoot echoed off the concrete walls. I was nine years old. With the elevators out of service half the time due to vandalism, I was forced many times to take the scary trek into the shadow of death up the stairwell to our sixth-floor apartment in the projects of east Baltimore….All I kept hearing was that everything was the “white man’s fault.” Even at the age of nine, I sarcastically thought to myself, “how can we stop these evil white people from sneaking in here at night peeing in the stairwell, leaving broken wine bottles, smashing the light bulbs and attacking people?
“So, my early experience living in the government project taught me that some folks simply have a ghetto mindset. I also witnessed the trap of government welfare. And why were so many around me angry and violent—despite getting free housing, food and healthcare?”
This is playing into the worst of what some people believe when they think of blacks and welfare. And now they have a Negro co-signing all of their thoughts and fears. He says that story was happening in the ‘50’s but doesn’t acknowledge any of the socioeconomic ripples of a horrendously oppressed people. He acts as if being on public assistance created some sort of Negrotopia where everything you could ever want was provided for you and people should have been ecstatic about it.
“Several of my cousins stayed enslaved to the system and the bigotry of low expectations. Because true self-esteem comes from personal achievement, they possessed very little. They lived angry and bitter lives, consumed with serial impregnating, out-of-wedlock births and substance abuse. An outrageously high number died prematurely.
“So, when I hear politicians, such as Barack Obama, pandering to the so-called poor of America, it turns my stomach. I've witnessed the deterioration of the human spirit, wasted lives and suffering that happens when government becomes "daddy."
Yeah, scared white folks, that’s what happened. The government became daddy for the “so-called poor” and everyone just destroyed themselves.
Or not.
Continued...on This Week in Blackness