It's a combination of things. In no particular order:
1) "New Blacks." We have a group of people who are more ashamed than empowered by our past and what we've overcome so they want to transcend their blackness and become better than/different from the average black person. They tend to be a bit more successful and think other black folks aren't because they have a "victim mentality" and all they have to do is stop playing the "race card" to advance. They don't want to to be reminded of our history, they want to move about freely in the world without being shackled by blackness or the stereotypes that accompany it.
2) Weak minded, sorry ass black folk. You see this in many of the ados/fba folk. They feel insecure and inferior. They need somebody- anybody - they can feel superior to. They are tired of feeling like the forgotten and bottom caste and are more than willing to step on the backs of someone else to elevate themselves. They also want to transcend blackness, so they hold on to anything that says they are Native American or have origins from anywhere other than Africa. They don't see folks on the continent as our distant cousins anymore, only separated because of the slave trade. They see them as an enemy. They also don't realize that for the ones who do have poor opinions of blacks in the US, that those opinions were shaped by white supremacy and propaganda to intentionally keep us separated, and they are more than willing to widen the gap. Just like white and black folks here in the US have also been subjected to the propaganda that we are lazy, and unwilling to do for ourselves, like systems were not in place to hold us back. It's called systemic racism for a reason.
3) Dumb people with good intentions unwilling to educate themselves properly. They may be waking up to and discovering politics for the first time but don't realize how government works. They are swayed by anyone with an authoritative sounding argument. They make unreasonable demands, and get mad when agendas aren't passed but don't understand dems don't have the votes to pass them. They fall for a lot of grievance politics which may be rooted in legitimate issues, but the people they are listening to aren't offering solutions, just targets to be angry with. There are no gatekeepers for information on the internet.
Any idiot with a camera and a mic can put out a video about something they pulled out their ass, and sound like they know what they are talking about because they speak convincingly, but a lot of the info out there is bad and/or misleading.
3) People with anti-government tendencies. They concern troll over what the dems are or aren't doing, but are never willing to address what the GOP is or isn't doing. They want us to be mad at dems because they have 2 people unwilling to fall in line, but have no heat for the GOP which has NO members willing to do the right thing. More than one of the folks around here have said that this want to see the system fail, and to do that they think we need to have the GOP win and take over. They have this romantic ideal that black folks have survived worse and would survive this, like we didn't then or wouldn't in the future have people suffer and die. They also think black folks will win and come out on top even though we are 13% of the population. I've remarked more than once that Steve Bannon also wants to see the system fail, because he thinks white folk will win. They can't both be right.
4) Outside influences. I've told y'all someone cracked the code and realized that black folks distrust the system and they've targeted black folks with conspiracies that get amplified from the most distrustful, least reflective individuals they can find, and now we all suffer for it. A lot of the Russian and Chinese propaganda targeted black folks and the infiltrated local BLM and other activist groups. One of the twitter accounts I followed only posted positive stories about black people, but it was one of the accounts that got deleted when they pulled the Russian accounts. Normally what happens is they lure folks in with legitimate issues, and then bit by bit start introducing ideas to radicalize people or spur them to take certain actions. I remember when we had folks quoting Russian memes and talking points word for word. SMH.
5) Grifters stirring up controversy to make money off their audience.
6) Groups and organizations targeting (usually) black men or using a black face to push GOP policies and agendas. They want to siphon off black votes from dems and (usually) black men are the way in for this. Some black women are susceptible, but we don't usually fall for the nonsense in as great of numbers.
7) A lack of critical thinking and America's piss poor education system. They can't do the basics and surmise that if a + b happens, then c will result. When they do try to do the math it's something stupid like if we withhold votes then the dems will be forced to pass our agenda if they want us to vote for them again, (even tho they will have lost seats, lost power and have fewer votes to do anything with.)
8) Chaos agents. They don't have shit else to do than sit at their keyboard all day and talk shit, so that's what they do. Half the time they are arguing for one side, then the other. They don't really care about politics or what happens to the country in general, they just want to start some nonsense and watch the rest of us hash it out.
9) Folks claiming to be black or dem, again with an agenda to get people to listen to their otherwise BS viewpoints, to sway folks to not vote dem. Again, just chaos agents.
10) People who only read headlines, which are often misleading. They think they are educated about a topic, but only have sound bites, so they have faulty opinions due to faulty or incomplete information.
There's probably more but that's all I've got off the top of my head.
