Do Black people in this country know what it feels like to be accused of “dual loyalty”?

Maybe it’s a “privilege” of sorts to have gone 4 centuries without this accusation being leveled at us.

The accusation of “dual loyalty” is not usually directed against the convenient racial underclass, but against those ethnic groups who are perceived as “too powerful”, “too connected”, “too much of an economic threat to the previous, older elite”, “too much in thrall to their place or community of origin”, “too antagonistic to this country’s order”.

In contrast, the accusation against us has been that we violate someone else’s racial/cultural “honor”, “pedigree”, “property value”, “standards”, that our mere presence will spread the “ways” of poverty, crime and other “working class habits”.

At best, some of us may have been accused of being in thrall to Soviets during the Cold War. More recently, as in the case of the White Nationalist terror plot against Islamberg, New York, some of us have been accused of being in thrall to the Muslim Brotherhood movement.

But I perceive an assumption of class in these accusations of parasitism: we’re poor “parasites”, and others are “rich” “parasites”. I think these accusations show a bit of the priorities of the accusers more than those of the accused.