Posted on 03/19/2011 8:56:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Leading black conservatives lay blame for black America's rampant poverty and other ills squarely at the feet of the socialist orientation of black leaders such as Al Sharpton.
They say the black intelligentsia’s rhetoric has created a defeatist and demoralizing climate that has robbed millions of black Americans of hope and has sentenced them to an impoverished existence.
“One of the tenets of the socialist ideology is to create a welfare state, and that’s exactly what has happened in the black community,” says Florida Rep. Allen West, the only Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus. “I like to say we have sort of a reverse plantation going on here where you have people like Sharpton and [Jesse] Jackson trying to make themselves into overseers.”
Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, says Marxists have worked hard to exploit blacks for the past century and divide them from the rest of society.
Socialism has been deeply ingrained in the black community since the NAACP’s founding in 1909 according to the Socialist Party USA.
And NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois later developed an admiration for Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin and even continued to apologize for him even after many other black intellectuals such as Ralph Ellison had repudiated their support for the dictator. DuBois even received the 1959 "Lenin Peace Prize" and formally joined the Communist Party USA two years later in 1961.
An affection for socialism also permeated black American culture during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s when artists such as Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson flirted with Stalinism. Robeson won the 1952 "Stalin Peace Prize" and remained an unapologetic defender of the Soviet dictator throughout his life.
Not even legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. escaped being infected by the socialist virus, as evidenced by speeches he gave toward the end of his life. And the Black Panthers, including now-Congressman Bobby Rush looked to Mao for inspiration.
“The biggest tragedy in all of this is that the blacks did not know the poison of socialism and communism,” Innis says. “And they were led to believe it was the only alternative for fighting Jim Crow and pushing back against segregation.”
The black elites’ Marxist dialectic has pit white versus black and rich versus poor, and has disempowered countless black Americans in the process by promoting collective hatred and jealousy.
“It has really hurt the black community because the real uplift in this country is through individual initiative, activity and entrepreneurship,” says Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr., a prominent conservative black minister and Tea Partier. “This mindset that you are owed something and everything has to be the same for everybody is a very dangerous and insidious attitude that has crept into the black community.”
Barack Obama’s 1995 book “Dreams from My Father" illustrates this collectivistic and conformist mindset because the president relates that he chose to associate with “Marxist professors” and discuss the ideas of Marxist thinker Frantz Fanon to “avoid being mistaken for a sellout” while he was at Columbia University in the early 1980s.
Black individualists who resist the Marxist black intelligentsia’s demand for ideological purity face the sort of denunciations recently visited on potential GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain who recently was denounced by blogger Chauncey DeVega on AlterNet as "a monkey in a window".
Marxist dogma says blacks cannot be racists because they lack power; consequently, Sharpton, Jackson and others need to maintain a perception in the black community that they are powerless and and level the charge of racism against opponents because it enhances their power, according to Innis.
“The Marxists are guilty of the charge they often level against capitalists, pro-free market economies and countries, which is divide and conquer,” Innis says. “They are the dividers because through their philosophy and rhetoric they seek to segregate a particular group … and certainly throughout the 20th century, in our country, it was the African-Americans.
“The communists … took a movement that had its roots in pro-free market, free labor … capitalism and totally corrupted it and co-opted it into a communist agenda.”
Innis contends black Americans will find a way out of their current predicament by returning to the individualistic, pro-free market spirit of self-determination exemplified by abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and non-Marxist black intellectuals like Booker T. Washington.
Yeah and the result is just the opposite. When are they going to wake up?
The fact is that the Socialists, both Marxist & Fabian, have deliberately exploited gullible minorities as revolutionary tinder, with little or no concern for the terrible damage they were doing to the social infra-structure of those they claimed to be concerned over.
The "Civil Rights" movement was the most successful gambit from that perspective. Correspondingly, it did more to undermine personal responsibility--the key to all real social progress--in the process.
Small wonder. Socialism and black victimology go together hand-in-glove.
No, you don’t get it. You imply the problem is with blacks themselves, as though the failure of blacks is reflected everywhere they exist. This is not true.
I would not ask your question.
I would ask, why do US born blacks struggle and fail in such great numbers when blacks who immigrate from Africa do so well in the USA. The difference is - black immigrants follow capitalist ideals, going to school, studying hard, and working hard to apply themselves in the workforce. They succeed.
The US born ghetto blacks are told they are victims and to not study, “don’t be white”, and take a generation of handouts. They are trapped and miserable following the socialist demands of the race hucksters like Van Jones and remain useful idiots of the Dem party.
Black immigrants who follow capitalism quickly move into the middle class in a generation or less. I know a man who immigrated 30 years ago from Cameroon, now living in the San Francisco bay area. Most of the white couples I know can’t afford a house before their mid 30s. By his mid-30s, he not only had a home, but he had a 4-plex rental unit as well.
Blacks in the US who work hard generally succeed and become middle class or better. It is the ones who sit home on the dole via socialism, as they are told to do, that fail in the USA.
How would the black community be today if millions had not been aborted?
Who has done more harm to American blacks? KKK or Lyndon Johnson/Ted Kennedy
Will blacks be better off ten years from now?
Why do blacks not notice the great wealth of men like Jesse Jackson?
Why do whites and asians not have "leaders" who speak for us?
Why do black athletes and entertainment celebs not speak out against the slavery of socialism/quotas/affirmative action?
Why are blacks so gullible?
How is it we spend upwards of $120,000 per student on K-12 and yet so many blacks have no marketable skills?
With TV and the internet how can blacks NOT understand that they can make a terrific life for themselves thru their own efforts?
I just don't get it.
>>>Marxist dogma says blacks cannot be racists because they lack power...<<<
I also run into this belief with many Native Americans.
In fact, the core of much racism is the idea that people of one race has power over people of another race. The Klan was formed out of the belief that the newly-freed slaves would somehow run rampant over the defeated Confederates. The National Socialist thought they were victims of a Jewish cabal. Victimhood and racist thought are often linked.
In fact, the most viciously racist people I’ve met in the past 20 years have all been black. (Which is not to imply that all blacks are racist.) Now, that’s just my experience, but you’d think that the supposedly white power structure would have somehow whispered in my ear privately about their distaste for minorities. Instead, the only racist voices I hear come from the minorities themselves.
I call such folks “skin color fetishists.” I also call them out on their racism whenever I hear it. It doesn’t make me popular, but what the hell.
Does this sound like someone we know? who now has attained a postion strickly because of his color, definitely not on merit or effort, who seems to be having trouble doing the work required in that position.
“Socialist Godlessly Secular Marxist Thought Has Crippled America”
There fixed it!
My guess it that W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King Jr., Bobby Rush, Frantz Fanon, Chauncey DeVega, Sharpton, and Jackson, were all educated in socialist modeled, collectivist, voter mob ( school board) managed government schools. Schools that were fundamentally secular and therefore godless in their worldview.
If our nation's children are educated for generations (since the mid 1800s) in schools that are socialist, collectivist, voter mob managed, and fundamentally godlessly secular in their worldview we should not be surprised that they see the government as their Redeemer and Savior. We should **expect** that they bow down and worship the false idol of communism.
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