>His rationale in the book was basically that
>Black America has given its unyielding loyalty to the DNC and
>they haven't gotten enough in return. That sounds like a
>statement that ahead of its time to me (this was 20 years
>ago).

mind you...the cleaver endorsement of nixon was just a few years after a democratic president signed both the civil rights act and the voting rights act.

so its not ahead of its time...as its literally been an intentional right wing talking point for decades that they convinced more and more black people into making sense of ('democratic plantation'...dems keep black people loyal with welfare and food stamps...etc). and prominent black people have said it even in the wake of democrats passing historically momentus legislation to help black people.

20 years ago woulda been around the end of the clinton era...when the black middle class made its most gains in modern history due to clinton job/economic legislation...black wage growth was the highest in modern history...and black child poverty was the lowest in modern history.

so barkleys line of thinking was just as dumb then as it was now. and the black people that say it tend to be the ones that know the least about politics (grifters, youtube pundits, rappers, etc).