Before was the American dream, ‘Pull yourself by the bootstraps, and you can make yourself…you can make it in America,’ all these lies that America told us our whole life. And then when we start getting in, they tried to lock us out of it. They start inventing words like you know, ‘capitalist,’ you know, things like that. I mean, you know, we’ve been called ‘n–ger’ and ‘monkeys’ and shit. I don’t care; those words y’all come up with. Y’all gotta come up with stronger words.
We’re not gonna be tricked out of our position. Y’all locked us out. Y’all created a system that, you know, doesn’t include us. We said fine. We went our alternate route. We created this music. We did our thing, you know, we hustle, we fucking killed ourselves to get to this space. And, you know, now it’s like, you know, you know, ‘Eat the rich,’ and, man, we’re not stopping, so that evolution is, you know, from us.
It seems to be mostly black and hispanic men breaking Republican, while black/hispanic women keep voting Dem. Is conservatism mostly a machismo thing? American conservatism has always been an explicitly male-oriented ideology. I guess some guys just dig being told they are the greatest and everyone should listen to them because they are male.
There's machismo elements to being conservative for sure but I think more pertinent are the facts that 1. Dems haven't done shit for PoC for 50 years and 2. An increasing number of Black and Latino people are becoming members of the propertied class, and as such are beginning to share some of the same material interests as white bougies. Whiteness functions as a reproductive mechanism for capitalism and it will very happily extend a portion of its benefits to wealthy individuals who would never be considered white without their money or property.