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July 26, 2022

You’ve probably read the sad tale recited by Van Jones on CNN about the “special heartbreak” in the black community over the current Bidenflation.

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“The rising gas prices, food prices — it has really walloped the black community in a particular way,” Jones explained.

See, by “flex[ing] their voting muscles in 2018 and 2020 to support Democrats” blacks thought they were entering a new era. But all is not lost, says Jones:

He said Biden is “doing stuff” for the black community — citing funding for black colleges, “going after police departments and fixing police departments,” and nominating black justices to federal courts — but knocked him for “not communicating” those purported accomplishments.

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Oh yeah. That should do it: going after police departments, nominating black justices and stuff. That will solve the “special heartbreak” in the black community with regard to gas prices and food prices.

But I get it. In the words of Curtis Yarvin, blacks are lower-class Clients. They don’t expect to make their own way in the world; they expect their leaders to provide.

But what if the leaders don’t provide? Good question.

In Yarvin’s analysis there are three kinds of people in the world. There are Educated Gentry, there are Commoners, and there are Clients. Lots of people have tried these Three Level theories. I have compiled a list of about forty of them. Our progressive friends right now are in love with the Allyship narrative, in which there are Allies, Oppressed Peoples, and White Oppressors. I will leave you to decide who are the good guys, who are the bad guys, and who are the Clients in the sacred narrative of Allyship.

Black economist Thomas Sowell developed his own Three Layer theory in his 1995 book The Vision of the Anointed. He proposes the Anointed, the Benighted, and the Mascots. I wonder what he means by that?

You will note that while Yarvin’s Three Layer theory is descriptive and value-free, the Allyship and Anointed theories are moral judgements on the ruling class of our society.