“I’d far rather side with McCarthy who thinks there’s a Communist under every bed, than with [Democratic] Senator Eastland who thinks there should be a Negro dangling from every rope.”
(Hat Tip to Booker Rising for this article from New Republic.)
T. R. M. Howard and his crusade against Jim Crow
BEITO: Howard’s eyes never strayed from the need to build a strong economic foundation through thrift and business ownership. He was a rare example of a leading civil-rights leader who was first and foremost a successful entrepreneur. During the 1940s and 1950s, he also led one of the leading mutual-aid organizations in Mississippi, which provided low-cost and high-quality hospitalization for blacks. Howard’s RCNL combined support for voting rights with an emphasis on the need for ordinary blacks to save and invest.
Howard always believed that it was essential for blacks to go into business for themselves. He pushed these goals while he served as chair of the board of directors of the National Negro Business League. His business enterprises included an insurance company, a home-construction firm, and a plantation of more than one thousand acres. He also built the first swimming pool (Olympic-sized) for blacks in Mississippi and even opened a small zoo. As the founder and head of one the largest black hospitals in Mississippi, he often gave his patients not only medical care but seed and tips on the latest business and agricultural techniques.
In my view Dr Howard's words and ACTIONS provide a highlight of my personal beliefs (I will not attempt to speak about other self described "Black Conservatives) regarding the need for industriousness within the Black community.
Too often the rhetorical charge of "So you don't want Black people to have health care and instead have us dying in the streets?"
This is a gross perversion of the issues. It is not that I do not want Blacks to have quality health care I dare to make a distinction between "Being in RECEIPT OF" a certain service or benefit and "Developing a more organic means of service delivery".
The key point that I believe that many progressives miss is that within their grand plans for service delivery there needs to be both service providers AND a funding source to pay for these goods and services that are demanded by the public. After the flooding of New Orleans and subsequent reconstruction there were angry local residents and civil rights emissaries who were pissed that "somebody else" got the contracts to clean up and reconstruct parts of the city. Functionally - the Black residents WATCHED as someone else got the contract that was FUNDED BY THE GOVERNMENT using funds that were NOT GENERATED from the economic system that is within the area.
What claim does one have to money that is not his own?
This is a perfect example of how "Being In Receipt Of" a benefit is distinct from receiving wholesale benefit from a community project because the community itself had control of the essential elements that brought the project forth. Namely - Money, Skills and A Will To Maintain a certain Standard of Living.
RACIST SCARE CROWS
It is interesting that Dr. Howard knew who his real enemy was. Not the individual who did the "red scare" in America but the person who wanted to KILL BLACK PEOPLE as a means of keeping his kind within their place.
No doubt certain operatives today will make the case that Democratic Senator Eastland (and GA's Richard Russell and the boys) would be REPUBLICANS if they were alive today. Thus they'd be a threat to Black people.
I refuse to fall for the trap.
The operative "fear" expressed by Dr Howard was NOT "White Conservatisim" but instead those people who'd soon KILL a Black person as a means of expressing their will upon us.
Who is the force that is killing Black people today in the most frequent and haneous forms?
Why is it that they are not registered as the same threat that the White Southerner was known to be back in the day?
Was the death of Black people at the hands of the Whtie Racists a SUPERIOR event than when a Black person is shot dead on the streets of America today - like a dog?
It appears to me that 'Non-White White Supremacy" is the major force "keeping Black people in our places today". That place is one of "Benign Neglect" as to what is truthfully and painfully going on in the streets of where we live in highest concentrations.
These are not White Conservatives who are doing these killings that make the 6 o'clock news.
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