Newark Mayor Ras Barakas poisonous slavery claims reveal his true loyalties

When in doubt, progressives will always default to weaponizing historical black plight — the lifeblood of their political arguments.No one wields dead black people more enthusiastically than a progressive ideologue bent on clotting common-sense political discussions.Leftists like Ras Baraka repeatedly repurpose our racial identity to throttle the beating heart of American prosperity.In a recently surfaced campaign-trail video, Baraka — current mayor of Newark, NJ and aspiring governor — angrily compared US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the slave-catchers of the distant past.“The attack on immigrants…they want to know why we can relate to that: Because we was undocumented too!” Baraka proclaimed.“Black folks ..

.you come from a whole line of undocumented people.

And if you didn’t have your papers, you going back to the plantation.They have people chasing, catching you.

It wasn’t called ICE then,” he lamented.“We know what that means and feels like,” he said.“In fact, the 14th Amendment exists because you was being chased.”That’s Baraka’s modus operandi: using black American victim narratives to fuel his political career and progressive policy agenda — even to the detriment of working-class black Americans themselves.The predominantly older black audience that heard his “slave-catcher” rant is of the ilk that’s living off their solid 401k’s and no-longer-offered company pensions.They aren’t the black Americans who are living check-to-check with little savings, while competing with illegal immigrants for traditional working-class jobs all throughout the state of New Jersey.Baraka and other progressives fail to acknowledge that illegal immigration has directly harmed black Americans throughout this state — as people who aren’t supposed to be here have taken away our opportunities.As a New Jersey resident for over 20 years, I’ve watched the Garden State transform into the “Warehouse State,” thanks to the ...

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Publisher: New York Post

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