This was the question that a Black Progressive-Fundamentalist caller asked Ashley Bell this morning on WAOK AM's "Lorraine Jacques White Show".
Ashley Bell, long time political analyst in Metro-Atlanta shocked the world last year when he notified his listening audience that he had switched to the dark side. He left the Democratic Party and became a Black Republican.
The main change that his "departure" has brought forth is that, now that he is "out of the closet" his analysis of politics as it relates to the preferences of his Black Democratic audience is more purposefully balanced. Where as the prevailing theme on Black-Wing Talk Radio is to fuse the Democratic Party with Black Interests and attack Republicans - Attorney Bell is a bit more introspective and strategic in his analysis.
Indeed he tells of the 'missed opportunity' that the GOP has generated in their outreach to Black people as they pursue a given strategy. But he gives more critical analysis of the DEMOCRATIC strategy as well.
It is important to understand that on Black-Wing Talk Radio most criticism of the Democrats are merely guised attacks upon them for not being "leftist" enough. Its not that they failed in absolute terms. They merely have failed to fight against the Republicans hard enough and thus don't have a "spine".
- I have no problem at all with a single Black person who is a progressive and a Democrat
- I have no problem with a group of Black people who assemble their common thoughts together into a coalition
- I have no problem with this group forming an activist group
- I don't even have a problem with them framing public policy issues from a progressive perspective and selling others on the notion that this is the best path way forward
What I can't tolerate is when a Black Progressive - faced with the sight that NOT EVERYONE AGREES WITH THEM - chose to label the opposition as RACIST.
On the one hand of the balance scale is the notion that, indeed, some of these people are motivated by racial interests and the unwillingness for them to let go of their (White) power. (Of course their White Progressive friends that coalesce with Black people have let go of their own "White Supremacist" thoughts and just Luv black people)
The greatest indictment of Black Progressives who use the racism indictment is that far too often there is a large mass of "Dark-Matter" that accompanies their indictment against their enemies (Conservatives and Republicans) that they are not able to address as they tell the radio listening audience why RACISM(!!!) is the driving force of the opposition against Obama.
"Does The Black Community Regret Allowing The Hijacking Of Our Organic Community Development?
The prevailing "Black Progressive political struggle motion" is TRANSACTIONAL in its composition. We are told that the threatened cuts to Social Security is an "attack on grandma". The goal is to focus the indictment and claims of 'meanspiritedness" upon the transaction at hand - Will the debt ceiling be raised and taxes be placed upon the rich so that the burden is "not placed upon the backs of the poor"?
The most frustrating part of this hijacked focus is that the Black Progressive is not compelled to acknowledge their failed "Black Community Uplift" efforts since the 1960's where the institutions that were to prosper when they took over have failed to provide the necessary uplift.
As we move forward past the indictment and look at 20 to 40 years out - the real cost to "Grandma" is that the Social Security system that they are now loathed to cut is likely to experience a massive fail.
In summary - the INDICTMENT is not the proposed cuts to Social Security as a means of constraining its cost foot print. The real indictment is the long term massive impact that the Black community will suffer as Social Security's solvency erodes over time AND the institutions that we have invested our confidence in STILL have not produced the benefits to our people, allowing more of us to be the "Professional Service Agents" that our community needs to retain our desired living standards.
The drive for 'Social Justice' has our consciousness fused to the outward government instead of the alignment between our community goals and these needs. The key point that is purchased with this hijacking is the SILENCE that transpires as the data points reveal stagnation rather than uplift.
How does a person fuse so much of their future upon an entity that is clearly listing?
The problem is the lack of respect for our community institutions which is exploited by those who are more interested in maintaining ideological unity than they have the interest in managing our resources toward the required ends for our survival.
Today - worse than any slave master than you can point to who is alive today - is the aggregate damage that is generated as the potential is squandered - mostly by ideological bigotry and hatred for the agreed upon enemy.
That enemy seems a bit closer than ever. He seems to be in our community control room.
There is no longer an "Organic Black Community Uplift Agenda" it is ONLY a political agenda in the "American Political Domain".
WHO is going to demand a "Switch Back"?
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