Posted on 09/10/2014 7:10:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It doesn't matter that low voter turnout did not kill Ferguson Missouri's Michael Brown, any more than it killed Trayvon Martin or Troy Davis or even James Byrd back in 1998 Jasper Texas.
What really matters to our black political class is not what we need but what they need. They need their perks, they need their careers, they need to constantly reaffirm and to re-legitimize their privileged status as the imaginary representatives of all the rest of us. Their answers to every question reflect what they need, and not what we need.
South Carolina representative James Clyburn was on CSPAN TV Labor Day sitting alongside establishment historian Peniel Joseph, sagely instructing audiences that while 56% of Ferguson residents turned out to vote in the 2012 presidential elections, less than 10% came out when the local mayor's job was up for grabs. This was Clyburn's and is our black political class's standard explanation for the killing and the circus of official misconduct that followed.
Congressman Clyburn is not stupid, just self-involved and self-interested like the rest of the black political class. He knows that that cities with lots of high ranking black cops and often black mayors, from New Orleans and Atlanta to Philly and Columbia SC, also savagely mistreat African Americans. Clyburn is a man with priorities, and his first priority is his status, not ours. So his answer to everything is simply “vote,” and today's glittering black political class, where he rides near the top, is the end of history, the inevitable fruit of our people's long struggle for justice.
The black establishment figures would all have us believe that low voter turnout killed Michael Brown, rather than the sharp end of a vicious police and prison state that black politicians, black Democrats have partnered with their white colleagues of both parties to build and operate.
Any problems in the lives of African Americans yet unsolved, in their opinion, are because black folks haven't voted long enough, wisely enough or in great enough numbers. For almost a generation, the only cards left in the short deck of our black political class have been appeals to racial solidarity in even numbered years, and the big vote.
Those old enough to recall the 1998 murder of James Byrd by white supremacists in Jasper Texas, who dragged him more than a mile behind a pickup truck will also recall the “nonpartisan” mailing that went out to millions of black households nationwide on the eve of the 1998 election. It was the last two years of the Clinton era, just the last two of the Obama epoch are upon us, and black disappointment had never been heavier. Clinton rode into office with a Democratic majority, promising a peace dividend, some rollback of the drug war and prison state, money for mass transit, housing, and reforms that would allow unions to organize again. Instead he delivered NAFTA, so-called welfare reform, a wave of privatizations, and vast expansions in the numbers of police, prison beds and death penalty offenses.
How did the black political class get out the vote that year? Not with new answers or even new discussions or new demands. Just with pictures. Their nationwide mailer was punctuated with the silhouette of pickup truck dragging a chain.
It's nothing new because our black political class doesn't need anything new. For them, the old stuff is working perfectly well, as long as their own careers keep rolling along.
Is Ms. Pierre (cute as she appears) anybody’s aunt?
The author needs to look at how the community in Texas handled the Byrd killing.
There were no riots. The race hustlers tried to take control of the situation and were shouted down. The father of the man who murdered James Byrd sat next to Byrd’s family in court and told them “I do not know where he learned this but it was from me”
He didn’t claim his son was about to turn it around or was really a good boy deep down
So the perps father was sorry and appalled by what is son did and supported the victims family in this Am i reading this right ?
At Riverside Church? Isn’t that Illegal politicking in a church?
Yes. The perps father sat with the victims family and publicly apologized for the behavior of his son.
The Black Panthers showed up and were told by the black residents of the town to leave because they didn’t need that kind of help.
Wow my hat is off to that man
The, to save the nation, cut the EBT cards, and FIX BAYONETS!
Apparently the son picked it up in prison where the guards encourage the prisoners to segregate into gangs along racial lines (if you don’t “buddy up”, you are easy pickings for everyone whether that be sex/rape, theft, assault, insult, whatever).
It’s much easier to keep the heat off the authority figures in prison if the prisoners are busy taking their aggression out on each other.
Been that way in this country for many many decades.
And it doesn’t serve as any defense of the murderers actions to point it out.
I wonder is she understands the origin of Aunt Jemima?
“Ain’t yo mama.” Old southern nanny saying.
So, Bruce, I assume that means you will agree with me on the issue of TERM LIMITS?
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