When in doubt, progressives will always default to weaponizing historical black plight — the lifeblood of their political arguments.

No one wields dead black people more enthusiastically than a progressive ideologue bent on clotting common-sense political discussions.

Leftists like Ras Baraka repeatedly repurpose our racial identity to throttle the beating heart of American prosperity.

In a recently surfaced campaign-trail video, Baraka — current mayor of Newark, NJ and aspiring governor — angrily compared US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the slave-catchers of the distant past.

“The attack on immigrants…they want to know why we can relate to that: Because we was undocumented too!” Baraka proclaimed.

“Black folks . . . you come from a whole line of undocumented people. And if you didn’t have your papers, you going back to the plantation. They have people chasing, catching you. It wasn’t called ICE then,” he lamented.

“We know what that means and feels like,” he said. “In fact, the 14th Amendment........

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