This Post Is Not About The Contrast Between Michele Bachmann Vs The Final Call In Their Slave References

The Caption From This Week's Edition Of "The Final Call" In Which The State Of Incarceration For Black Males Today Is Contrasted Against The Enslavement Of Black Men In 1850

This Post Is Not About The Contrast Between Michele Bachmann Vs The Final Call In Their Slave References.  It is not to voice support for Michelle Bachmann.  It is not an attack on "The Final Call". 

 The title of this post is as such because I have noted that some people have a "reading comprehension problem".   In the world of "Gotcha Politics" - those who dare go against the grain as they seek to transparently analyze a popular enemy's words get accused of "defending the enemy" rather than making note of how "gotcha" suppresses discourse.

Criticism Of "The System" Which Has Blacks Imperiled 

From Huffington Posts' foray into the Black Community Consciousnes discourse:  "Black Voices" quoting Republican Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann:

"black child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African American baby born after the election of the USA's first African American President."

These are the words associated with a "Pro-Traditional Marriage Pledge" that a conservative Republican group had passed around for all Republican Presidential candidates to sign.

I am not planning to inspect the accuracy or falsehood of this statement.  I won't even discuss the attributes of "free will" (or lack there of) between the two time periods that make this a precarious comparison.

The goal is to note the response to this passage and then contrast it against the likely response when a "friend" draws upon a similar reference.

Michele Bachmann does not have a track record of speaking out specifically about issues that impact Black people disproportionately.  I agree with her critics on this one.  It is also true that the main motivation for her words were to critics the SYSTEM which present day Blacks have chosen to cleave to as our primary gateway for "Community Uplift".  Of course we are talking about the "American Political Domain" and the methodology of "Progressivism" and the vehicle of the "Democratic Party".

As a person seeking to have Black people and all others pile into the Republican vehicle, Ms Bachmann saw fit to sign a "traditional marriage pledge" which included the reference to the familial situation for Black people at the end of their bondage in the chattel slavery system in America.

Mrs Bachmann was attacking the PRESENT system that dominates Black America, questioning its effectiveness in producing long term and committed relationships between Black people.  You get no argument from me in the belief that her interests is in the Republican Party more than it is in increasing the marriage rates for Black people.   I am on record as saying that the "Healthy Lifestyles and Relationships Outcomes" Permanent Interest resides in the "Community Cultural Consciousness & Competency Development Domain" and not the "American Political Domain" in its successful delivery to the Black Community.

Those who attacked Mrs Bachmann used their own skills at "feigned offense" to argue that Bachmann claimed that "Black people were better off in slavery".  I will allow Bachmann to defend herself but it is interesting that few of these attackers bothered to lay out their case regarding how the SYSTEM that our people have been compelled to adopt for our "community uplift motion" has indeed allowed us to comply with more of our "Permanent Interests" - consummate with the INVESTMENTS of our "Equal Black Ballots" and the fusion of our "Community Development Consciousness".  They know Black people well and understood that the indictment around "SLAVERY" is the best way to shut down a conversation that they would rather not have.

The truth is that they prefer to use the Black community in the context of the bi-annual election cycle in the "American Political Domain", knowing that at present there is no entity WITHIN the Black community that transparently enforces the integrity of the space between the Black community's popular political interests and our "Permanent Interests" which should be free of molestation - even by those inside of our community circle.

Where Over 14% Of Its People Live In Poverty, And Where There Are Now More Black Men In The Prison Industrial Complex Than Were Enslaved In 1850

Again - my interest is not in affirming or denying the claim that appears in the Final Call.

Starla Muhammad, the author chooses to index a time of universal misery for the Black man stolen away from Africa and cast into a legal status like that of a barnyard animal, contrasting it to what we have in today's world - visual symbols of our freedom as a people yet some disturbing scars upon the underbelly.

This next passage is were most people won't bother to trek.  They prefer to remain within the 'Malcolm X Political Football Game" - doing battle with their ideological enemy - instead of fully understanding the differences between the two "slavery-time indictments" as a reference for today's arguments.

The writer in the Final Call's piece was indicting the aggregate system in America.   Republican Michele Bachmann was indicting the Democratic Party and its "Urban Strategy".   While both agreed that Black people in 2011 are in an inferior condition - "Blacks themselves" were complicit characters in only one of these arguments.

The chattel slavery of 1850 was a condition that was "no fault of our own".   The Final Call argues that the "Prison Industrial Complex" of today is also an exogenous condition suffered by Black people today as well.

Again - I Ain't Focusing On "The Final Call" In My Analysis

Those same "Protectors Of All Blackness" that expressed with the comparison of our present condition with Slavery are not going to posit similar criticisms of The Final Call.  Again they agree with this position - as long as the conspiracy known as "The New Jim Crow" has its motivations that far exceed the ability of its Black people of authority today to countermand it.

Their indictment is against the amorphous system of "In-Justice" that is around us.  This system seeks to destroy the Black Community by first breaking the spirit and consciousness of Black males by first denying him resources so that he might provide for his family, making him a criminal as he acts out in desperation to feed his own and then incarcerating him as he takes the bait that was set out to ensnare him.
Thus by distancing him from his strong influence upon his family and community the collapse of Black people is nigh.

In my analysis of the veracity of these claims - I don't fall for the trap which says "Obama and Holder and {fill in the blank Black man in the District Attorney's seat} are now in power - WHY is this conspiracy still continuing with Black people if it is so?".  

With the above statement we must also notate that these "authority figures", in addition to being in place within this "oppressive system" have also been promoted with 50%+1 of the Black Vote.
In short IF "The New Jim Crow" is true then there are a lot of Negro co-collaborators that are making it work.

If we are speaking of mere mechanics of a system that is foul then instead of the RACE of the people that chose to sit in the seat of power it must be an issue of CONSCIOUSNESS that is a more important force.  With this CONSCIOUSNESS we must be transparent in our inspection of the prevailing Black consciousness which has affirmed the new operators in the chair - this despite the 'malicious intent' of the system - as has been so carefully enumerated by Prof Michelle Alexander and others who are aligned in their thoughts.

When it comes to places that are dominated by Black authority figures, the truth is, that where there is a sizeable population of Black males there is a sizeable prison population, the key distinction being the prison guards and the people they report to show signs of DIVERSITY.  The ultimate results remain largely the same - Black men locked up.

"The New Jim Crow" is not interested in explaining away this phenomenon that can be seen in:

• Atlanta
• Philadelphia
• Washington DC
• Baltimore
• Detroit
• Chicago
• Newark

Their goal is the attainment of concensus among Black people that there is indeed an amorphous system that is working against our community interests AND that even more Progressives need to be installed into power than what had been previously thought - before the "Social Justice conditions" in the society which have not yet been mitigated, despite the placement of favorable people into power can be addressed via absolute control over all of the variables.  This is also why no one ever gets fired:  They have not yet obtained their goal of total control.

Ultimately the passage as abstracted from the Final Call is the message of "The New Jim Crow".  It fails for the very same reason that Bachmann's comments fails: NEITHER recognize the present condition of "Self Determination" that is available to the Black community today (unlike this "Slave past") but which has been squandered as we have been induced into ideological and partisan gamesmanship rather than verifiable uplift for our people via the community resources.

The over-representation of Black men in the "Prison Industrial Complex" is a function of the lack of PURPOSE that has been implanted into their minds via the benign neglect and misappropriation of the aggregate leadersip and messages that stream from the communities within which they live.