#black republicans

[odinsblog]

Caveat Lector 🚨🚨🚨

Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican.

BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.

Mr. Trump has openly courted black voters, who were key to Joe Biden's election win in 2020.

But there's no evidence directly linking these images to Mr. Trump's campaign.

The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a group which encourages black people to vote, said the manipulated images were pushing a “strategic narrative” designed to show Mr. Trump as popular in the black community.

A creator of one of the images told the BBC: “I'm not claiming it's accurate.”

The fake images of black Trump supporters, generated by artificial intelligence (AI), are one of the emerging disinformation trends ahead of the US presidential election in November.

Unlike in 2016, when there was evidence of foreign influence campaigns, the AI-generated images found by the BBC appear to have been made and shared by US voters themselves.

One of them was Mark Kaye and his team at a conservative radio show in Florida.

They created an image of Mr. Trump smiling with his arms around a group of black women at a party and shared it on Facebook, where Mr. Kaye has more than one million followers.

At first it looks real, but on closer inspection everyone's skin is a little too shiny and there are missing fingers on people's hands - some tell-tale signs of AI-created images.

“I'm not a photojournalist,” Mr. Kaye tells me from his radio studio. “I'm not out there taking pictures of what's really happening. I'm a storyteller.”

Disinformation tactics in the US presidential elections have evolved since 2016, when Donald Trump won. Back then, there were documented attempts by hostile foreign powers, such as Russia, to use networks of inauthentic accounts to try to sow division and plant particular ideas.

In 2020, the focus was on home-grown disinformation - particularly false narratives that the presidential election was stolen, which were shared widely by US-based social media users and endorsed by Mr. Trump and other Republican politicians.

In 2024, experts warn of a dangerous combination of the two.

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#politics #republicans #donald trump #deepfakes #disinformation #republican dirty tricks #misinformation #ai #a.i. #artificial intelligence #media manipulation #false narratives #black republicans #caveat lector #black voters matter #mark kaye #fake ai

[africanamericanreports]

The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. Clay Cane lays out how Black Republicanism has been mangled by opportunists who are apologists for racism.

#black republicans #clay cane #the grift #african american #black history

[sbrown82]

Among Kanye’s West’s defenders, the thinking goes like this: He is a genius, a freethinker, an elevated conscience. They may not like or agree with everything he does, but they applaud the man.

There is a cult of Kanye, and I came to the opinion long ago that our society confers a special allure on cults, particularly when they are tied not to religion but to pop culture or politics. In those arenas, they feel fun, innocent, like rooting together for a favorite team.

So I’m not here to argue about whether West is a genius, although when people refer to themselves as such, it tends to undercut the appellation.

This newspaper itself has repeatedly called West a genius, so it would behoove him, I suppose, to run with the branding.

But it has always seemed to me that West is aching to be considered a modern Mozart: the tortured genius. Of course, Mozart was a genius beyond dispute, but the idea that he was a tortured one may be a myth. As Jan Swafford wrote in his book “Mozart: The Reign of Love”:

“While Mozart had his share of sorrow and loss and frustration like the rest of us, he was fundamentally a happy man. He wrote for public consumption, which is to say that he was a professional in a way few composers are anymore. Still, on the whole he did what he wanted to do the way he wanted to, and when he was done he didn’t worry overmuch about what the public thought of it.”

West is no Mozart. West is a brooding, narcissistic attention addict and praise junkie. He attends his torture. He curates and employs it. Some of it may come naturally, but some is manufactured, to enlarge the legend.

I will let others debate whether his talents as an artist, which are remarkable, rise to that of genius. I want to focus instead on West as a cultural chaos agent, as a purveyor of dangerous politics. In this arena, he is no genius; he is a gussied-up gimmick. West’s latest brushes with thoughtless provocation came this weekend when he was kicked off Twitter and other social-media platforms for a series of antisemitic posts. But as noted, these are merely his latest brushes with thoughtless provocation.

West is often described as a “freethinker,” but in the political space, he isn’t. He’s simply a Black artist willing to regurgitate conservative — sometimes bordering on white supremacist — talking points as if they were his own.

Coming from the mouth of an international superstar, a rapping fashion designer, oppression starts to sound like freedom to those who shy away from or openly reject a serious analysis of politics and current affairs.

Last week, West caused a firestorm by wearing a “White lives matter” shirt at his fashion show in Paris. The Anti-Defamation League labels “White lives matter” a “white supremacist phrase” and has written that, since 2015, “white supremacists in several states, especially members of the Texas-based white supremacist group Aryan Renaissance Society, have promoted the slogan” as part of “a loose campaign to popularize the phrase.”

Well, last week, West gave the white supremacists a boost.

West is the same man who in 2013 was selling merchandise with Confederate flags on tour. As he explained to a radio station that year about people’s appalled reactions:

“Any energy is good energy. The Confederate flag represented slavery in a way. That’s my abstract take on what I know about it, right? So I wrote the song ‘New Slaves.’ So I took the Confederate flag and made it my flag. It’s my flag now.”

Kanye pitches it as co-option, but it is, in fact, basic shock-value antics that promote and normalize anti-Black hate symbols.

There is nothing genius about this. It is bargain basement exploitation. As West put it himself, “any energy is good energy,” which is just an almost spiritual, if jargony, way of reinterpreting what Oscar Wilde wrote in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in the late 1800s: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” The spirit of that idea led to “all publicity is good publicity.”

After the latest outcry over the “White lives matter” shirt he wore at Fashion Week, West continued his publicity seeking by going on Fox News to elaborate. The interview was a jumble of themes in which he attempted to weave together godliness, artistic inspiration, personal persecution, disdain for institutions, anti-abortion talking points, an inversion on the ideas around racism and his support for Donald Trump. You know, core ideas of the modern right wing.

West says of the shirt, “The answer to why I wrote ‘White lives matter’ on a shirt is because they do.” He plays oblivious to the obvious.

West is the same man who said in 2015 that “racism is a dated concept,” and that “it’s like a silly concept that people” use “to separate, to alienate, to pinpoint anything. It’s stupid.”

He is the same man who said in a TMZ interview in 2018: “You hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sounds like a choice. Like, you was there for 400 years, and it’s all of y’all?”

West later apologized for the slavery comments, but even in the apology he could not control his narcissism, saying: “You know in a relationship, maybe somebody will do something just to see if you still love them. One thing that I got from the TMZ comment is it showed me how much Black people love me, and how much Black people count on me and depend on me. And I appreciate that.”

None of this, in the political sphere, is genius. It’s shallow and dull. Kanye is just a Black man who discovered Black conservatism and thinks it’s enlightenment. There is nothing complex or mysterious about it. He’s a Black man parroting white supremacy, while far too many brush it off, continue dancing to his music, and wear his clothes.

West is a Black man sampling vintage anti-Black racism, remixing and releasing it under a new label: the tortured Black genius.

#kanye west #rapper #racist #narcissist #lunatic #antisemtism #racism #uncle tom #coon #anti blackness #cult #conservatives #republicans #black republicans #black men #dumb ass nigga #ny times #op ed #a read #sbrown82

[hezigler]

Watch "The TRUTH about Black Republicans" on YouTube

My personal opinion about Black Republicans is based on my admittedly limited personal experience. All the Black Republicans I know are intelligent, well-educated, generally very good to excellent in their chosen profession, and bat shit crazy.

#Youtube #black republicans #african american republicans #african american politics #african american culture #mlk #mlk jr #dr. martin luther king jr.

[blkice64-blog]

This is both sad and infuriating at the same damn time. Mentality still in the cotton fields

#black republicans

[blackwolfmanx2]

What Happened to the Black Republicans? - Grift Report

#blackwolfmanx2 #ancap #libertarian #hotep jesus #grift report #black republicans

[mysharona1987]

They have turned the Palestinians into actual Guinea pigs for the military industrial complex.

We will see the robots and miserable remote controlled dogs at the next big BLM protest on American soil soon enough.

#free palestine #blm #robots #woc #news #democrats #republicans #politics #poc #women of color #black lives matter #ai #israel #capitalism #palestine #military #chicago #Pets

[writemarcus]

There Goes The Neighborhood workshop with The Elif Collective

#marcus scott #marcusscott #write marcus #writemarcus #black playwrights #theatre #theater #lgbt #lgbtq #black conservative perspective #black conservative republicans #black conservatives #black republicans #all lives matter #black lives matter #slasher #slashers #horror plays

[yourapple56-blog]

Look! Black Republicans don't like the new slavery narrative being pushed by DeSantis!

#youtube #black republicans #ron desantis

[odinsblog]

Obviously I despise Republicans, but I hate Black Republicans sO fucking much. Trump is making racist jokes and they’re all just sitting there laughing and applauding him.

Talk about a “yassir massa,” house negro mentality. They would eagerly sell out their parents, their children and all their loved ones for just 0.003 seconds of basking in the white gaze.

Black Republicans are the living embodiment of house slaves who snitched and warned their white masters about field slaves plotting an escape.

By the way: racist “jokes” about the lights going out and only being able to see the white eyes and white teeth of Black people isn’t anything new.

This racist trope was used repeatedly in cartoons of the early 1900s.

#politics #republicans #donald trump #black republicans #sellouts #c👀ns #🦝 #black conservatives #black conservative federation #bcf #white gaze

[helloparkerrose]

#black republicans #black america #1970s #republican convention

[africanamericanreports]

George L. Cook III has written a kindle vella horror story titled SELLOUT, A Ghost Story about a Black person who has no qualms about making money by talking bad or degrading his "own" people. The story focuses on a character named Richard English, who is a political pundit who appears on TV and radio talk shows and always puts Black people in a negative light. Although a horror story the story features a Black History twist.

#black history month #african american #horror #kindle vella #black republicans #sellouts

[negrolicity]

Can you say Stockholm syndrome?

#negrolicity #herschel walker #black republicans #crazy white people #ye #chronic traumatic encephalopathy

[hezigler]

Watch "The REAL Faces of Black Conservatism" on YouTube

Another in a series, this one seems like he gets dangerous at the beginning, but this Signifier really has his shit wired together. Because he digs deep into Malcom X, Louis Farrakhan, Bill Cosby et al. and comes up with some of the best arguments against our present economic application of our political system on video. This is in addition to his excellent historical review and analysis of black conservatives in America.

#Youtube #fd signifier #black conservative perspective #black conservatives #black republicans #conservatism #malcom x #bill cosby #louis farrakhan

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#black lives matter #republican assholes #Republican racists

[the-fruit-tea-devil]

SJWs: Black people can’t be racist! Black Conservative: Yo SJWs: 

#all black lives matter #candace owens #black republicans #miss me with that shit