Don King’s endorsement of Trump isn’t fooling anyone
Actor Samuel L. Jackson came to mind last week when professional boxing promoter Don King introduced Donald Trump with a performance akin to a house Negro act.
Jackson’s film resume includes a role as Stephen, a plantation owner loving, own-race hating, sellout in director Quentin Tarantino’s “Django: Unchained”.
Jackson nailed his performance with such subservient perfection that seeing him in his own skin produces severe loathing. Jackson is Stephen. Forever. So, as King shuffled, shucked and jived, occasionally seeming mentally unhinged or fighting dementia, visions of Jackson as Stephen overwhelmed, especially when attendees laughed or smirked about the always a black man no matter what rhetoric.
“If you’re poor, you are a poor negro — I would use the n-word — but if you’re rich, you are a rich negro. If you are intelligent, intellectual, you are intellectual negro,” King explained.
“If you are a dancing and sliding and gliding nigger— I mean negro — you are a dancing and sliding and gliding negro,” King said, laughing as crowd members smiled and smirked.
“You’re going to be a negro ‘til you die.”
King tap danced for Trump during an introduction at the New Spirit Revival church in Cleveland Heights as several African American religious leaders welcomed the Republican nominee.
“There’s only one Don King. Only one,” Trump said, underscoring God’s ultimate wisdom regarding creation.
Trump and King continually criticize “The System” which provided unimagined wealth for both of God’s children.
The same system King rallied against allowed him to stomp to death employee Sam Garrett in 1966 on a Cleveland street, spend four years in prison then earn hundreds of million dollars as an infamous fight promoter.
King allegedly swindled millions from many black fighters who either sued him or delivered verbal attacks against the great self promoter.
Mike Tyson, a former heavyweight boxing champion, called King “a wretched, slimy, reptilian mother#***er. This is supposed to be my ‘black brother’, right? He’s just a bad man, a real bad man. He would kill his own mother for a dollar. He’s ruthless, he’s deplorable, he’s greedy.” And street smart. King knew that white America offered opportunity for black men who showed contrition for social sins and a willingness to voice undying love of country.
King produced a calculated agenda for acceptance by using the American flag as a prop and by offering this assessment.
“America is the greatest country in the world. I love America. What I’ve accomplished could not have been done anywhere else,” served as King speech.
Any man or woman who expresses explicit passion for the United States no matter the historical racist agendas manifested by its leaders, gains acceptance. Murderers and scoundrels gain access to inner circles where they will be dispatched to stand in God’s houses and proclaim not only the greatness of a specific candidate but also the majestic American dream.
Ohio Gov. Jim Rhodes unchained King with a 1983 pardon of his manslaughter conviction.
Rhodes said his action followed the recommendations of the Ohio Parole Authority and support offered by Coretta Scott King, and city influentials including Cleveland Browns president Art Modell and Gabe Paul, the Cleveland Indians president.
Money and being needed as color for political palates gains allegiance from civil rights activists queens and men who turn the great wheels of democracy.
While many U.S. blacks make the perennial mistake of voting for the person who shares their heritage or skin tone, we hold enough intelligence to know when people like Don King represent chicanery.
Don King, unchained and loosed for public inspection looked and sounded more like Stephen, either not knowing or willingly accepting his role as black jester.
King prescribed Trump as anecdote for black peoples’ problems.
Lost or disoriented, King engaged trivial pursuits.
“So, dare not alienate because you cannot assimilate, so you are going to be a Negro ‘til you die,” King said.
Negro, please.