- The Washington Post - Eugene Robinson "Why (We) Progressives Need A Big Idea"
- Robinson's Words Syndicated By The Root-Grio
I credit the Progressive-Fundamentalists for one thing: their ability to "Sell The Future" just when the Black community should be having a "No Confidence Vote" upon them proves that they do indeed know the heart beat of our community very well.
They know how to capture the frustrations and the grievances that abound within. They merely channel it outward like a laser-like force upon the adversary that is to their benefit.
I said "their benefit" meaning progressive politicos. It is left to be seen that "their enemies" encompass all of the 'Black community's enemies'. The fact that they include so few of their own ideological set in the "enemies list" proves rather telling.
The real problem is that the institutions of the Black community are not isolated from the elements that are running the ideological and political operations that purport to seek our community uplift. They run an IDEOLOGY with the purposes of this uplift and thus judge people based on how "Progressive" they are with their INTENTIONS rather than how EFFECTIVE they have been in lifting the Black community with absolute measurements substantiating their continued presence in power.
Is The Momentum On The Black Community's Side, Mr Robinson?
Washington Post columnist and MSNBC "The Un-FOX-Biased Network" regular Eugene Robinson does not appear to be a "race man" in the likes of many of his machine mates. He is indeed an ideologue and he uses his journalistic skills to say what many of the "understudies" that surround him at the Grio-Root claim is based upon the racial hatred of the "Black President" and then they ask those who reject this claim "When did you stop beating your wife?".
Despite his sharpened skills - Mr Robinson's articles end up in the very same place. Beyond defending Obama they fail to connect the present circumstances of the Black community with the FAILURE of the INVESTMENTS that the Black community has made for our uplift.
It appears that the Black Progressive-Fundamentalist journalist's meme is to identify an enemy to the people. Upon achieving the "Mission Accomplished" state as they have struggled to erect - make the case that the community now suffers from {fill in the blank} abandonment" and benign neglect. Both of these forces serve to keep our people struggling against an external threat that is either clobbering us when they are nearby or having violated our sanctity when they snatched away our blanket in the middle of the night and then rushed away from our presence.
The main flaw of the Black Progressive-Fundamentalist journalist is that they are unable to adequately define the dimensions of the Black community to understand what we need and then make a TRANSPARENT appraisal as to the suitability of the machine that has taken over (per their own assistance provided in their weekly column) and retain their defense of "the least of these" from the injuries that have transpired at the hands of the new authorities. The very authorities that they (the journalist) celebrated as "Progressive's new ideas" during the inauguration party.
Detroit's Kwame Kilpatrick Is Symbolic Of A "Bold New Progressive Idea"
In the same press cycle that the Root-Grio ran Eugene Robinson's proclamation which hinted that Van Jones represents bold new progressivism they also ran a tale by Mr Robinson's fellow progressive journalist Rochelle Riley entitled "Finally Detroit Is Winning!".
The "win" is not the creation of new jobs to make the once great city viable again. Instead Ms Riley promotes the news of a large scale initiative for volunteering. I am not slighting the fact that this is "good news" I am merely placing this properly into the scale of problems that Detroit has and questioning if this is enough.
Please understand the way things work with regard to political and ideological discourse within the Black community when it comes to such subjects. Just as a poster on the Grio-Root challenged me the other day with the notion that Ronald Reagan's policies proved to be the death knell for Detroit and other cities we must understand that there is no statue of limitations for referencing the enemies of progressivism as the source of a present fault. However, if you dare make make the case that a favorable person (ie: the Black Progressive political machine) is responsible for the city's downfall - you might be called a Black self-hater for daring to make such an assumption. (Note - attacks on "Free Range Negro" Black Republicans does not fall under this banner. When a "Black self-hater" is attacked and blamed outside of his proportional power this serves as a galvanizing and reassuring event for Progressive-Fundamentalists.
It is also the case that Ms Reilly is not going to harp on Detroit's past and how they got there and who was driving. Progressivism is all about selling the disaffected about the future they will have IF they choose to convert their frustrations into votes for the "Party In Motion". With grand theatrics and the supporting cast of Black Journalists - what is sometimes actually lateral motion or regression is marketed as "forward motion".
Absent a more transparent framework by which the interests of the Black community are appraised separately and distinctly from the political activism arm of the "Black Racial Services Machine" - the longitudinal data (as with the recent US Census findings on Black wealth) will continue to stream out and show stagnation while the grand marketing machine will attempt to show forward progress.
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