Crossing the Red Sea: Why Black America Must Leave the Democratic Party
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.” Exodus 14:15–16 (KJV)
This was a disturbing week of the year—and I don’t suppose that’s saying much, considering this is only the second week of the year. Still, I would be remiss if I didn’t point out the killing in Minnesota of a woman who, after being ordered to get out of her car, drove forward into an officer and was then shot and killed by that officer.
It is a tragic situation that a woman lost her life, but just as troubling is the fact that there are people who send others out to protest while offering no real protection, responsibility, or accountability when those situations turn deadly.
For weeks now, we have been witnessing rising protests against ICE agents in several Democratic-led states. In many of these protests, demonstrators have openly antagonized federal officers who are tasked with enforcing federal law. Somehow, illegal aliens appear to receive more sympathy and protection than the federal officers themselves.
“You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution. You can kill a freedom fighter, but you can’t kill freedom.”
The officers have become the villains, while illegal aliens—regardless of their history or manner of entry—are defended by left-leaning Democrats. Civil-rights language is repeatedly used to suggest that what is happening today mirrors the civil-rights movement of the past. But this is not a civil-rights issue.
The reality is that these are individuals who crossed the border illegally, who did not build this country, who have no historical stake in this nation, and who have not contributed to it—yet they are making demands. Democrats argue as if these individuals are entitled to rights that belong to American citizens.
Even more troubling is the misuse of the ADOS story as justification. Our history is not the same. Our struggles are not interchangeable. They are not interconnected or entwined. The protests of today are nothing like the protests of the 1960s, which were largely peaceful. American Blacks did not spit on officers, hurl insults, impede their progress, disrupt communities, or place officers in situations where they were forced to defend themselves.
In fact, it was white mobs—often led or protected by Southern Democrats—who reacted violently to American Blacks for simply riding a bus, sitting at a lunch counter, walking down the street, or drinking from a water fountain. It is those who held that same ideology—who treated American Blacks as less than human and sought to keep them enslaved—who now claim moral authority while fighting to keep illegal aliens in this country to labor, serve tables, and fill roles they do not want for themselves.
More disturbingly, they now want American Blacks to join them in this effort.
That is one of the core issues: we are being asked to fight a cause for a group of individuals whose primary impact has been taking from our communities in the name of their own salvation. We are expected to move over and make room—for housing, healthcare, education, and jobs—while white employers hire them, pay them lower wages, and then force them to rely on social systems to sustain their lifestyles.
Meanwhile, Black men remain imprisoned, and Black women are still living in projects and Section 8 housing.
Individuals like Summer Lee, Jasmine Crockett, Ayanna Pressley, Roland Martin, Don Lemon, Abby Phillip, and Whoopi Goldberg guilt American Blacks into believing we are advancing a righteous cause—one that ultimately steps over our own community. Many within the Democratic Party listen to this rhetoric and calmly repeat the lie.
If there is one group whose best interests are not at heart in this movement, it is American Blacks.
We are also asked to follow Democratic leadership while individuals like Tim Walz and Jacob Frey send out dog whistles suggesting that what happened in Minnesota with this woman’s death is equivalent to what happened to George Floyd—and that we should respond in the same way. We are encouraged to riot, to burn, and to react, rather than to think critically.
At the same time, we are expected to forget about the fraud that has occurred in Minnesota—fraud involving resources intended for children, the elderly, and the disabled. While not every individual is responsible, the fraud happened, and it was exposed. It revealed another situation in which immigrants—some legal, others not—have come into this country and extracted resources from lower-class communities already struggling to survive.
We are asked to believe in the policies of an unknown leader—one who operates in the shadows and creates chaos from behind a curtain.
Meanwhile, those of us who support Donald Trump are ridiculed, labeled, and publicly shamed for that support. More importantly, we are expected to view everything Trump does as inherently wrong, without honest discussion or evaluation of outcomes.
I must address what Trump did regarding Maduro in Venezuela. We are expected to see these actions as un-American or as violations of international law, even though pressure on Venezuela was already in motion under the Biden administration. We are told to ignore the reality of what Venezuelan socialism has produced—and how it has driven millions from that nation into the United States.
There is little doubt that meaningful pressure on Venezuela could slow the flow of migrants from that region and disrupt drug-trafficking routes that use that country as a bridge into the United States. Yet we are instructed to believe that such actions somehow harm us.
Any policy—no matter how small—that could benefit our communities is rejected outright if it is associated with Trump. Results no longer matter. Outcomes no longer matter. If Trump is connected to the action, it is opposed on principle alone.
So the real question becomes: what is next, and what should be done?
I believe the answer is clear. There must be a mass exodus of Black Americans from the Democratic Party. We must remove ourselves from systems that hold us down, keep us dependent, or maintain us in a state of political bondage.
It is time to cross the Red Sea and never look back, lest we be lost to the rising waters of blue-state policies and special interests that threaten to drown our communities.
