Posted on 09/19/2002 11:18:40 AM PDT by ArcLight
Events of the past year have demonstrated that the Black political movement is vulnerable to surrogate candidates in electoral contests in which African Americans are a majority or near-majority.
This challenge is funded and directed by the Hard Right. It is a new and ominous threat, intended to destabilize existing Black leadership and, ultimately, destroy independent Black political action. Moreover, it is clear that African Americans will be confronted by this determined strategy for the foreseeable future and with escalating intensity.
The Cory Booker mayoral candidacy in Newark was both a test and herald of the Hard Right's New Black Strategy. Although Mayor Sharpe James was not ousted from office, the closeness of the contest and the effectiveness of the financial and other resources brought into play on Booker's behalf, encouraged ultra-conservatives to believe that the new approach is practical and promising.
In quick succession and with great fanfare, Right-funded challengers defeated two Black congresspersons: Representatives Earl Hilliard (D-AL) and Cynthia McKinney (D-GA). Although right-wing Zionists played the most public role in these campaigns, the same political apparatus that was at the center of the Booker bid in Newark, provided organizational, media and financial muscle in Alabama and Georgia.
The Hard Right's own propaganda machinery, through its think tanks, has from the beginning described the three contests as linked enterprises, with promises of more to come. These enemies of independent Black action are hard at work in the African American political heartland, seeking to groom new candidates. It is from within the Democratic Party that the next Black Trojan Horses will emerge.
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Oh my. Another fine example of Black on Conservative-Black persecution. But then again, probably no worse than my hatred of socialists...
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The trouble is this sort of garbage is FAR more popular in black politics than the tinfoil stuff is in mainstream politics. Louis Farrakahn has been using this stuff for years to great effect.
This is tin-foil politics at it's very best. Unfortunately, because there are so many in the black community that buy into the conspiracy theories of the radical fringe, this message will soon end up in the mainstream.
Don't be surprised if Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton begin to parrot this line to the detriment of all involved.
This is part of what I've said for years: that as long as the fringe can keep ahold of the press, they can say and do what they want and remain unchallenged. It is our responsibility as conservatives - black, white and otherwise - to make sure that the truth does get out; that the race-baiting conspiracy theorists are exposed for who they are and that our message is not marginalized as the "lunatic right-wing."
The neverending battle continues...
Yes. See #11, mhking has summarized it very well.
Yeah, sure. If only.
It is a new and ominous threat, intended to destabilize existing Black leadership and, ultimately, destroy independent Black political action. Moreover, it is clear that African Americans will be confronted by this determined strategy for the foreseeable future and with escalating intensity.
Mmmm... The sweet incense of Leftist fear. Suh-weet...
When it comes down to it with the black Left and their destruction, the higher the flames rise, the more I like it.
Marxist doublespeak. The existing "leadership" is trying to keep them chained and dependent. "Independent", as they mean it, is doing what the leadership commands, when it's commanded, no question asked.
We have entered a new epoch, facing the same enemy with new and dangerous designs. The most critical task facing Black political activists is to identify, expose and defeat Black Trojan Horse electoral candidates. They must be identified early, before money and media have provided them with credibility within and beyond the Black electorate. We have the capacity to expose them thoroughly, through rigorous research and relentless deployment of our own media and institutional resources. At every opportunity, they should be confronted directly and without civility, thus demonstrating our outrage at their activities..These men and women must be ostracized from the political life of the community.
We have a plan.
Three of the people on my personal list of people who I wish were interested in public office (but aren't) happen to be black.
Thomas Sowell, Walter E Williams, and Larry Elder.
I'm guessing they wouldn't be a big hit in the black electorate. But who knows? You have any insight into that?
Or in plain English, this writer is condoning the intellectual tar-n-feather job that Michael Eric Dyson did to Jesse Lee Peterson at the NABJ conference earlier this summer, and subsequent to that on national television (on FNC's Hannity & Colmes). They figure they can jump up and down, call us names and it's OK.
They can refer to us in the most vile of terms - as "lawn jockeys," "oreos," "boot lickers," and "Uncle Toms" and get away with it. Why? Because they figure they're right. In their minds, political correctness doesn't apply to us, because, in their limited minds, we are subhuman.
Be aware. Be prepared. Be forwarned. Be armed with the truth. Don't let 'em get you down - and they are going to try - but don't let 'em see you sweat.
Among the folks who buy this tripe: encourage their paranoia, and try to intensify it into suspected "treason" on the part of various Democrats.
Divide and conquer.
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