Thursday, July 28, 2011

What Is The Bigger Threat To The Black Community Today? "Voter Suppression" Or "Squandered Investments Of 'Equal Black Ballots"?

The NAACP is convening in Los Angeles.   One of the main themes this year - a year prior to the American presidential elections - is that "The Black Vote Is Under Attack".   There are various (Republican-lead) themes that are seeking to strip Black people of our power but stripping us of our vote, thus disenfranchising our people.

This is sold to us in the spirit of "White Supremacy".   The fewer Blacks that there are voting - then more "favorable people" to the White Conservative - who thinks ill of Black leadership.   This is how the story goes.

The task of the NAACP (and MSNBC) is to "wake the sleeping giant" - the Black Community - sufficiently prior to the elections in the "American Political Domain", riling up our people by convincing us that there is a COST - a THREAT - to our interests if we do not first protect our interests in retaining the equal status of our "Black Ballots".   Then it is critical that we invest those "Black Ballots" - now that the Black Racial Services Machine has restored them to their "Equal" status - after duly fighting off those who would suppress our rights by minimizing the equality of our voices that are deposited into the "American Political Domain".

This is a rough approximation of the "struggle" that has been advanced by the NAACP.   Their ground game from this point forward is "voter registration and education" outrage.  They are a "non-partisan organization" after all.

It must be understood that the maximized registration of Black people in the elections of the "American Political Domain" is the cornerstone of the plan voiced by Bayard Ruskin regarding the pathway to "Black Community Control" and then prosperity within our community.   I have argued earlier that the primary and secondary goals of this agenda have been wildly successful.   The voting rates of Black people - while perennially trailing the rates of White people - are substantially higher than the rates in the past - when there was a consequence suffered by Blacks who dared try to vote.

Primarily - the Black vote has been engaged.  Despite the frantic messages about the looming threat - from a PROPORTIONAL standpoint the Black vote is an "Equal Vote".   In the 2008 election Black voter participation reached historic highs.

From a secondary stand point - "Favorable People" have been elected into power where the Democratic-leaning Black community has the final say in who will represent their interests or where they are aligned in coalitions in various states to ensure the same end.

It is the tertiary point in which our community was to achieve an undefined state of prosperity as a result of the other two building blocks being put into place that has not come through as promised.   Ironically - the third leg is the only element which is fully experienced by the Black community as a "return on investment".

To clarify - it is the government and its enforcement mechanisms that affirm the 'equality' of the Black ballot.   The NAACP works through the channels of government, prompting it to enact regulations or lawsuits for protection (as they SEE IT).  It is the government which also administrates the elections through which "favorable people" are to be placed into power.  The integrity of the election operations is a critical portion of maintaining "the Equal Black Ballot".

The third element - is represented WITHIN the Black Community.   The hope for the Black community - as represented by the icon to the left - is that our "Community Aggregate Value & Worth" chalice will become more full as a result of these other operations that have been outlined above.

The true test of the efficacy of this entire series of engagements which make up a substantial portion of the activism of various "social justice organizations" that compel Black people upon a given "struggle motion" in pursuit of our permanent interests is the appraisal of this third leg.

The question is "Did the Bayard Rusking Plan work?".   And of the results that have been obtained -WHO did it profit?

The Impact Of The Struggle Motion - In The Mission Accomplished Zones

In the space that exists between the engagement of the Black Community to execute our "Community Development Consciousness and Hopes" and the machinations within the 'American Political Domain' there is a high rate of manipulation that is easily observable.  

In normal governance distributions those who have fiduciary interests in the body at hand (the Black Community) maintain a protective disposition of its interests.   When these interests appear to be compromised from previous transactions - a defensive posture in protection of the critical resources is erected.

Unfortunately - in the Black Community, as it is presently oriented today - those individuals who are cast as "Black Leaders" are duplicitously positioned as "Democratic Party" operatives.   Their own interests for "Black People" are indistinguishable from the party line.   When ask to explain - they might say that this is the result of their past effectiveness in customizing their party into a worthy receptacle of  the Black Community confidence and trust.

There are few people around who challenge this fundamental assumption.

It is my stands that "Popularity Does Not Equate To Effectiveness".
The use of popularity as a justification of one's congregational stance is a circular reference.  It only showcases what is commonly assumed to be the case.   It can also set up the stage by which all challenges to the presiding orthodoxy are spiked.

What better metric can we use to affirm the utility of a plan other than the assessment of the receipt of promised results in the "Black Community Aggregate Value & Worth" chalice?  

Isn't this what the preliminary building blocks that we were compelled to engage in by those who had the position of confidence supposed to deliver upon our community?

A significant portion of the  Mission Accomplished Zones today show the opposite.

In these places we can observe high rates of molestation of the interests of Black people.
Sadly and shamefully - the presence of the prevailing machine too often provides cover for the operatives who are failing to provide the promised returns.  With the sight of a "favorable person" in power and the "racial and ideological pride" that has been fomented by the congregational leaders - an attack on that elected official is promoted as "an attack on the Black community".  The confidence men who have fused this point of consciousness in our people have successfully advanced their marginal interests in their joint-venture partnership.  They have violated the trusts of the Black community's interests.

The fused governance model is at the heart of the problem.   In the face of failed delivery of our Permanent Interests:

  • The expression of Quality Education
  • The attainment of Safe Streets per statistical representation 
  • The formation of Thriving Local Economies where human resources are applied to address the market needs of our communities
the PROBLEMS that are denoted by standard measurements (ie: the US Census) gets digested by the "Embedded Confidence Men" who are in positions of control and spun to their own purposes.

The Black community is in a precarious position.   On the one hand its boundaries are not defined by a landmass.  Its relative population numbers and related influence is dependent upon the political boundary in question.

To the "embedded confidence man" who seeks mischief - the delivery of the latest bit of "constructive feedback" - as expressed in the recent news of the Black/White wealth gap - is evidence that the government should double down on its efforts to fight against.......................RACISM(!!!!).

They blame is placed upon "Predatory Lending" as the source of the loss of Black wealth as compared with White.    

This presumes that all of the Blacks who have suffered loss in wealth had recently acquired or refinanced their mortgages.  With this line of argument - the unscrupulous banks are the thieves.  (I don't disagree with the thieving part - having recently refinanced my own mortgage and seeing the fees that were amassed at my expense.   I, a Black man, did not receive a 'predatory rate', however).

As you listen to the arguments you won't hear the role that schools and favorable community environments have in defining property values of a given area.   My own home's value declined from its peak but was substantially more than our original purchase price.  This "conservative" community has received a net influx of Black people over the past 10 years.   They too are covered by the retention of property values in this area of metro-Atlanta.

The places that have seen substantial losses in property values are in the areas where lower-middle class residences who's values got inflated in the "house flipping" rage of 7 years ago, only to come crashing down as the perfect storm of job losses, loss of renters, neighborhood blight from vacant homes that are stripped of their copper pipes and public schools that are not performing up to standard measure.

The list above does not prove to be a perfect model of the community - but it is surely more accurate than those who are heard on television going after the banks.



The Equal Black Ballot Is Made Irrelevant To The Uplift Of The Black Community After "Mission Accomplished" Is Acquired

The series "Brick City" is one of the best exposes' of "Mission Accomplished Politics". After having achieved the grand plan of community control by placing "favorable people" into power.

With the enemy party and ideology having been purged from all offices - we begin to see Progressive factionalism in the face of continued failure of the interests of our people within.   Fear not - for the interests of the NAACP remain.   While the intramural battles proceed within the city - each side in the battle are able to fuse their agenda and vote for the same machine at the county, state and federal level.   This is ultimately all that matters.


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There is no mechanism by which reforms are made to these local "Mission Accomplished Zones" on a more organic basis.   The sight of Black interests that remain short of expectations is shifted as an indictment of the county, the state, the federal government.  In as much as it is true that "Progressivism is Inorganic" it suffers no loss of support from the Black community from such failures.  Instead it proactively shifts the indictment of the present condition up to a higher domain, and then compels the people to struggle upward toward the next plateau - ensuring that more Progressives will obtain power - with hopes of fixing that which was promised to be fixed if the lower plateau was taken over.   Is it in their control - but they suffer no loss as the people struggle forward.

Who Are The Defenders Of The Black Permanent Interests Today?

I don't worry much about the NAACP these days.  They have shown themselves for who they are on various occasions over the past several years.  (The NYC charter schools lawsuit as the NAACP stood with the teachers unions against the parents and said that the parents were helping the slave masters).  

An entity that has the Black community's best interests in mind would seek to prevent the "embedded confidence men" from having their way with our community's key resources.  These resources would be made available to the joint venture ONLY IF previous targets have been met for the benefit of the Black community.

Today we have a group of people who seek to have Black people compelled to believe that the election of a "Favorable Person" (and the progressive policies that he comes with) IS the attainment of the Black Community Permanent interests.

That way they don't have to worry about the pesky "constructive feedback" that the various longitudinal measures provide to them.

Where is the outrage - people?

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