Allen West, talking to Laura Ingraham on the O’Reilly Factor last night, used a sustained slave plantation analogy to describe the relationship between the Democratic Party and the black community.
In response to a question about the black community’s discontent with President Obama, West identified African-American leaders such as Rev Al. Sharpton as “overseers” of a “plantation” that maintains black support for Democratic politicians:
“You have this 21st century plantation that has been out there, where the Democrat[ic] Party has forever taken the black vote for granted, and you have established certain black leaders who are nothing more than the overseers of the people on that plantation. And now the people on that plantation are upset, because they’ve been disregarded and disrespected and their concerns are not cared about. So I’m here as the modern-day Harriet Tubman to kind of lead people on the underground railroad away from that plantation.”
