‘Uncle Tom II’ Challenges Conservative Preconceptions on Civil RightsThe new documentary puts the words of civil rights icons under a microscope, showing how they planted the seeds for the dismal present-day situation of blacks in America.
By Gavin Wax
September 8, 2022
“Uncle Tom,” released in 2020, highlights the experiences of black conservatives and gives a platform for them to explain their experiences living in a world where they are outcasts for holding a different point of view. “Uncle Tom II: An American Odyssey,” now available for streaming and on DVD, takes a different approach.
The documentary fleshes out the historical context that has led to near-total ideological conformity among the black community. It presents a thesis anathema to every liberal fact-checker, Afrocentric college intellectual, far-left Black Lives Matter thug, and milquetoast conservative.
The movie begins with its narrator, Chad Johnson, a blue-collar, working-class black American construction worker, describing his intellectual journey from liberalism toward conservatism. Jackson says he hopes the film “breaks the spell that so many people are under that keeps them angry, makes them bitter, blinds them [to] the truth.”
A staple of the documentary is images and videos of the historic black American family juxtaposed with mass media propaganda about 21st-century black people being victims of slavery. The images of an enraged and indoctrinated 7-year-old girl participating in a BLM terror march are shocking and offensive, but they set the stage for the heartwrenching story of the fall of the American black community.
“Uncle Tom II” paints the picture of a strong, independent black culture that rose from the shackles of slavery into immediate prosperity—a truth of history lost in our contemporary narrative. This culture arose before the victim mentality insidiously crept its way into the black mindset. Following the end of slavery, black Americans had the opportunity to enjoy freedom, pursue commerce and reap its rewards, and be seen as equal participants in a society ever striving for growth and improvement; they were not subject to a grotesque welfare state subsidizing indolence and depravity in the name of compassion. These industrious people thrived despite the tangible institutional racism they faced. Black Americans worshiped Christ, had a stable family and church life, and began to build intergenerational wealth.
“Uncle Tom II” touches the third rail of racial politics in America—one that very few conservatives dare approach. Conservatives have adopted egalitarian talking points because they are too cowed to speak ill of “diversity” and “tolerance,” which have been elevated to the most sacrosanct of virtues by the liberal elite. It depicts contemporary secular black society and its thrall to heroes of depravity—murals and deification of figures such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Michael Brown—whose only contribution to society was dying in violent encounters with the police. These are false idols for a dark and dystopian time. This transformation took place by design, with the “trained Marxist” founders of BLM following a time-tested blueprint of separating the people from the love of their actual Creator, just as Mao, Stalin, Lenin, and other communist despots did.
While these points are strong and controversial, “Uncle Tom II” goes into truly forbidden territory while it chronicles the history of the civil rights movement. It is heavy-handed in positing that the civil rights movement transformed the black community from a Christian-oriented, dignified, family-centric culture into what it has become today: one defined by grievance and envy and hatred of white people. And it was not just fringe civil rights figures movement whom “Uncle Tom II” targets, but also the titan of the movement: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/08/uncle-tom-ii-challenges-conservative-preconceptions-on-civil-rights/
