De Tocqueville, in "Democracy in America," said in 1820 that if blacks don't fight for the freedom . . . and its WHITES who fight for them instead . . . great evils would derive from this fact.

What troubles me is that the Arabs (I think of Ibn Battuta in the 8th Century) said that Sub-Saharan Africans were different from every other race. He said that when Muslims tried to enslave the Slav or the Iberian, they fought back. Only blacks [wrote Battuta] passively went along with their slavery, considering life as a slave superior to life in the jungles back in Africa. To live in civilization, even as a slave, was a step up.

De Tocqueville seemed to concur with Battuta, writing, "The negro enters upon slavery as soon as he is born: nay, he may have been purchased in the womb, and have begun his slavery before he began his existence. Equally devoid of wants and of enjoyment, and useless to himself, he learns, with his first notions of existence, that he is the property of another, who has an interest in preserving his life, and that the care of it does not devolve upon himself."

So blacks learn to think that SOMEONE else is responsible for feeding them, clothing them, providing their healthcare, housing, etc.

One of the biggest black pills you ingest as an adult is that NOT EVERYONE values freedom and independence. (This is a Greek value, and a Western concept.) Plutarch writes, in "Moralia," of a twelve year-old Spartan boy who was captured and jumped off a building to commit suicide rather than to remain a slave. Xerxes, emperor of Persia, was shocked that the Greeks saw slavery as worse than death. To him, this love of liberty was a strange fetish. Most people around the world were not like this.

We chauvinistically project who WE are onto the rest of the world and are shocked when our values are not in fact universal values. And surprised when most people don't live in to our social mores.

It's depressing as hell that, after 600,000 white people fought to ensure the independence of blacks during the Civil War, 94% of blacks in 2021 are fighting to STAY on the plantation, with Whitey responsible for their food, housing, and healthcare . . . just as de Tocqueville described from the slave days.

Their fight for welfare is a fight to REMAIN enslaved. Sorry, conservatives, but African-American don't want your "freedom and independence". The Democrats understood their psychology better.

There's a quote: "Power isn't something you're given; it's something you take".

Blacks, if you notice, are still ASKING for power.

(That's not how this works.)

To return to de Tocqueville: The fact that they didn't fight for their own freedom opened the door to massive evils.