"Tell Me More's" Michelle Martin Interviews Two "Hijackers Of Black Community Development Consciousness" But Fails To Define The Construct Of The Debate Properly

Today I listened into "Fight The Power Radio" (WAOK AM Atlanta).
In the convergence of:

• A Black mother who was charged with vehicular homicide of her own child as she crossed a busy street in the middle of the block and a drunk driver struck and killed the child - a mass community show of support converted what was sure to be jail time into probation for the grieving mother.  The gathering of the activists proved to be a "self-chumming" event showing the "Strength and honor of Black people to change the mind of a 'White judge' who was going to throw her in jail" (paraphrased quote from a caller)
• The Black Unemployment Rate
• The concerns over the US Debt situation
• The Atlanta School Cheating Crisis

The result of all of this was a massive "The Black Community NEEDS TO" forum where all agreed that:

• WE NEED TO support Black owned businesses
• WE NEED TO create our own jobs
• WE NEED TO manage the affairs in our own community because the police are not equipped to do so
• WE NEED TO provide tutoring and guidance to your Black students so they can learn in school
• WE NEED TO support our elected leadership so they can defend our interests in hostile environments

From this "We Need To" session I was forced to note that this very common point of thinking has been the operating agenda for the Black community for decades and decades.  In fact the "Black Racial Services Machine" that I keep referring to was indeed founded after a mass gathering of "Black leaders" who resolved to make more effective use of our valuable community resources for the purposes of obtaining improved outcomes.

The 2-D Graph / Time Line - A Foundational Management Tool For The Protection Of The Interests of The Black Community

Before I get into my review of the NPR interview with the NAACP and the National Urban League - it is important to introduce a key construct 

To the left is a standard management tool.

On the X axis is a time series.
On the Y axis a number of different measures can appear.   In this particular post the measurement of the intensity of our "Investment Of Black Power Resources" into the "American Political Domain.
The Y axis is categorized into the 4 segments of governance - including "The Black Community".
I have stated previously - in my observations of those who work to manipulate the resources of the Black Community - walking into a debate with them with only your mouth (your arguments) you will never out-debate them.  They know how to throw out indictments and put the onus on you:

• "What have YOU done for Black people?"
• "Where were YOU when we were getting beat up by the police?"
• "Show me YOUR better plan before we agree to stop marking on our plan (that we were just heard grieving about as being insufficient)"

On MSNBC ("The UN-FOX-Biased Biased Network) we often hear the slam against Conservatives being "anti-science" because they are so doggedly entrenched into their ideology.   It is clear, however that those who doggedly avoid seeking to MEASURE the forces that they say are bearing down upon the Black community (threatening to return us to slavery) are of this same spirit of non-science in favor of non-sense.

By not submitting to a model - in which the forces that bear down upon the Black community are put into their proper PROPORTION - they are able to claim the presence of "Racism(!!!)" and the acceptance that racism is present is sufficient to dismiss their culpability in our present aggrieved state.

The other force, besides the oppressive force of "racism" (or the stagnating force of "corporate abandonment") are the affirmative INVESTMENTS that the Black Community was compelled to make as we accepted the quid pro quo promises by the "Black Racial Services Machine" in support of our "Community Development Consciousness".  

It is my contention that if the Black Rank & File do not enforce the INTEGRITY of our institutions and resources that are put at play - we are going to get PLAYED.    I believe that the NAACP and National Urban League - in their present form are PLAYING THE BLACK COMMUNITY.   The primary means by which they are allow to get over is the absence of:

• A Time Line
• The Lack Of A Video Tape In Which Their Community Development Plan Is Reviewed For Its Efficacy 

Both of these are necessary tools in the protection of the Black Community Interests from usurpation

The NAACP, NUL And Other Black Racial Services Machine Must Be Forced To Submit To Constructs Which Protect The Core Black Community Interests From Usurpation From Failed Schemes

The graph above shows the implementation of the plan by which the outcomes within the Black Community were to be improved as "The Black Community placed favorable people into seats of power, to control the institutions within our community, electing Democrats, to advance favorable public policy for the benefit of the Black Community."   This more or less models the "Black Progressive Agenda" that was voiced in 1968 after the death of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

This plan was first implemented in a large scale in 1968 as the mayoral elections in Cleveland took place.  The same Black institutions that had been driving for "Civil Rights" began to carry political campaign signs on behalf of Carl Stokes.

As with the recent comments made by radio talk show host Tom Joyner the "Black Racial Pride" in seeing "First Black (Progressive)" in office can be used to compel our people to "Vote Our Race".   Despite the attempts to suppress this sentiment among White people in 2008 - Joyner and other embedded operatives are not about to ask Black people to "disarm" in this manner" - regardless of the data indicating the state of our community as the plan from 1968 has run its course.

The other day my "racial consciousness eye" shed a tear as I heard a person on the radio argue that our Black children in school TODAY are still suffering from the after-effects of SLAVERY in our schools.  This despite the fact that "favorable people" run the schools and the larger community within which they reside.

It is clear - that absence some CONSTRAINT - they are going to keep selling past infractions as present indictments - compelling Black people to look past the incompetence of some of the people who have been invested in - and instead SELLING US on the importance of fighting the present fight that is in front of us.

Chart Description
BLACK COMMUNITY Level  - The "Black Community Development Consciousness" - our quest to improve the conditions within as we are positioned to interact with more leverage to the greater community.   The other elements of the chart is an approximation of how our community consciousness has been fused to the "American Political Domain" - compelling us to continue the investment of this valuable resource along with the "Equal Black Ballot"

MUNICIPAL Level - The struggle to insert "favorable people" into power over the key local institutions (mayor's office & executive/administrative staff, city council, police & fire departments, public school systems) has been most dramatic at the municipal level.  "Black (Democratic) voting blocks" are most effectively leveraged in the domain with such closed quarters.

STATE Level - As the population of Black people is diluted into a greater whole - the need for "Joint Venture Partnerships" and coalitions was seen as necessary to achieve the favorable policy goals that are common among the individual Progressive-leaning groups.  The relatively small group of Black state representatives and state senators needed these partnerships to advance the stated (progressive) interests of the Black community

FEDERAL Level - At the federal level the use of coalitions and caucuses are vital.  Blacks are only 13% of the population.   The Democratic Party and the "special interest groups" that seek to influence elected officials are vital.  The "Labor" coalition and various "Social Justice" partners that supported "redistributive economics" were seen as partners.

As time passed the "Black Agenda" was forced to yield into a more generic "Progressive/Left-Wing" agenda.

(Not the next passage has no bias applied.  I am reporting the stated facts based on their announced plans).
In listening to the NAACP and "The Leadership Conference On Civil Rights" over the past few years - they have affirmed their expansion into "Immigration/Hispanic Rights" and "Gay Rights" and "Abortion Rights".   I have previously analyzed this as evidence of compromised "Black Interests" for the sake of "Progressive outcomes".   In truth the historic Black Civil Rights organizations are "freed up" to support the activism in these other venues because so much of the "low hanging fruit" of unchecked racism on Black people has been picked.    TODAY WE ARE OPERATING IN A PURE IDEOLOGICAL/POLITICAL DISTRIBUTION.

(Note: Just as the incident of a murder does not prove that this is a "murderous nation" - the example of an incident of racism against Black people does not prove that this is a "racist nation".  The measure of RACISM in America must be based upon the proportion of these hateful actions are left unchecked by the government, by the non-governmental institutions (businesses and clubs) and by groups of individuals in the society).  Failing to apply such discipline to the issue merely allows those who are seeking to make mischief with our raw sentiments on the subject due to history to continuously have their way.  The cost is that our community will never implement a more functionally effective governance model).

Analysis: Why Michelle Martin Failed To Apply The Proper Constraints Upon The "Hijackers Of Black Congregational Unity" In Her Interview With The NAACP And NUL

• Listen to Commander In Chief Obama
• Listen to Prof Melisa Harris-Perry (Of The Nation Magazine), subbing for Rachel Maddow last night
• Listen to the leaders of the NAACP and the NUL

They all seek to set the domain of the debate upon "THE LAST 10 YEARS"  (2001-2011).

During this time:

• There were not enough taxes collected (due to ideology)
• There were not enough jobs collected
• There were wars, tax cuts and Medicare programs that were expanded but not paid for

In the face of discernible results that have been rendered as "favorable people" take over at the various rungs of government - it seems fairly predictable that the "Black Racial Services Machine's" analysis will be:

• The Indictment of the enemy in order to gain power for Progressives
• The transference of blame upon the enemy in order to allow Progressives to retain power, setting the stage for battle in the next election.

Malcolm X's warnings have been fully jettisoned. 

I have stated before that the strongest weapon that a progressive has is his ability to render an INDICTMENT.   Clearly "the past 10 years" equals "8 years of Bush".   If they can make the "first 3 years of Obama" into "The massive clean up job after Bush" - then they can successfully control the INDICTMENT upon which the Black voter will be compelled to make our next batch of "Investments" in the two year cycle that we have been conditioned to fold our "community development goals" upon - coincidentally mapped to the biorhythm of the elections in the American Political domain. 

This strategy is as deliberate as is "Dollar Cost Averaging" is in the world of stocks and investing.   With the death of the "Organic Black Community Development Agenda" - I see no other way to escape the gravitational pull of politics and the "ideological death match" that we have been ensconced within.   As long as the Black community can be compelled to believe that the threat from the ENEMY in the upcoming election is a bigger threat than the past failings to deliver upon the promises that were laid out by the "embedded confidence men" - no one should be surprised to see the present antics that is "The Black Political Consciousness".

Without some force WITHIN the Black Community enforcing the integrity of our institutions and consciousness from these operatives who are strictly playing in the "American Political Domain" - don't expect to see any of the promised benefits that continued struggle portends. 

What Michelle Martin Should Have Done To Stop The Hijacking Of The Black Community Development Consciousness

The facts that comprise my model of behavior are clear.

Marc Morial, Ben Jealous and other members of the "Black Racial Services Machine" are unhappy with the present condition of Black America but are PLEASED with Commander In Chief Obama's PROGRESSIVE POLICIES that they commonly believe are the fix.

Michelle Martin allowed them to define the time from (the  last 10 years) but never dared rest the problem as that of failed uplift for the past 50 years.  (Note - it would be acceptable in their mind to make our present problems a condition of the past 400 years.   This is because in doing so the indictment is removed off of the backs of the "Black Racial Services Machine" who received our confidence but did not deliver as promised.)

If you note very carefully - What was to be a "Black Community Control leads to Prosperity" movement has now vacated the Black community and become a NATIONAL battle in conjunction with other Progressive Joint-Venture partners.  These operatives have suffered none - for having lulled our community on a quest - and upon achieving success at a given plateau - instead of being made to prove their efficacy - they instead continue their "Struggle Motion" by scaling to the next rung on the mountain.

Those who are interested in protecting the institutional integrity of the Black Community would force Jealous, Morial, Sharpton, Van Jones and others who pretend to operate in the interests of the Black Community to be bound to their promises of a "Stronger Black Community" - after their fusion in with the American Political Domain.

Instead - as the recent news from the US Census shows - the engines for organic uplift WITHIN the Black community are as anemic as ever.    Sadly and shamefully - this latest news has a greater chance of triggering a "double down" in the present struggle - then it would trigger those with transparent intent to fundamentally question the agenda of the machine that has received the balance of our investments.

I make a plea to Michelle Martin and other Black journalist who pride themselves on professionalism and objectivity (as much as their own biases and sensibilities permit them to):  STOP ALLOWING those who purport to represent the Permanent Interests of the Black Community - to set the terms of the discussion.   

They are always going to place the popular congregational adversary on trial - but always escape their turn in the witness chair. 

The level of absence in such a disposition ensures that the "Black Community Institutions" are always available for hijacking.  Ultimately irrelevant to the conditions on our streets.