How can you learn from the past if you omit parts of it? We have to talk about the guy that snitched on Nat Turner, the Black people that worked for the FBI, the time that Farrakhan ran and told on Malcolm X, why there's a guy on the roof, and every other distasteful part. We've been making the same mistakes over and over again because we look at life like a big ass church. The pastor and the deacons are godly, the past can be washed away with a prayer and the future can be manifested with obedience. Neither are true.
Coons are a large part of our history and have hindered us every step of the way. We MUST talk about them but in the same way we talk about Slavery and Jim Crow.
In essence, they serve as distraction that absolves the system of the daily indignities necessary to seem as if it's functioning.
What we can learn from them is that they have chosen the path of least resistance in the hopes of securing status, but all they have done is made themselves last for being discarded when they no longer serve a purpose.
I have no intention to come off as antagonistic, but my study of history has shown these folks are dangerous and us among the masses who suffer for their "making it"