It is too clear to me as an observer and a critic: The Black community has been taken over by the Black Establishment which has itself been taken over by operatives who have sold out to partisan and ideological bigotry.
As I did my usual monitoring of various "AfroSpear" affiliated blog sites - there was no surprise to see that Republican Sandford was the lead headline. This story had more posts on my friend "Field-Negro's" blog than the far more important story: The Failure of the Philadelphia School System to provide a quality educational product to its majority Black student body.
Such districts, she said, reinforce “the perception that members of the same racial group — regardless of their age, education, economic status, or the community in which they live — think alike”; they “threaten to stigmatize persons by reason of their membership in a racial group and to incite racial hostility”; they may “balkanize us into competing racial factions”; and they tell elected representatives that “their primary obligation is to represent only the members of that group, rather than their constituency as a whole.”
The Resulting Districts: "Head Count" Over Effective Results
Blacks sit on legislative bodies ranging from elected school boards to the U.S. Congress, but many have acquired their seats by running in districts carefully designed to elect minority candidates. Reviewing data from 1992 to 2007 on the impact of race-conscious districting at the state and congressional levels, political scientist David Lublin and colleagues concluded, “The overwhelming number of minority legislators continue to represent majority-minority districts.” As Lublin notes, in some of these districts the majority is composed of a black–Hispanic coalition, and where the minority population is less than 50 percent, it often controls the outcome of the decisive Democratic primary. Of course, some minority-minority districts do elect black candidates with white crossover votes, as the civil rights community admitted in Bartlett v. Strickland.
I am forced to reject this paragraph because it notates something that I have called out after a long series of observations. A good portion of the Black community confuse "Head Count" over "Effective Outcomes". They see a "Black face up in the place" and believe that this is enough to obtain satisfactory results.
Keep in mind that if the Black face were "Clarence Thomas" then they would likely agree that "all of your skin folks ain't your kin folks" as they apply this notion to the Black Conservative. I would like to make reference to this same notion thus getting beyond "skin color computability" and "ideological computability" and instead focus upon the EFFECTIVE RESULTS. After all this is what the drive for political activism was initiated upon.
The challenge with focusing on the EFFECTIVE RESULTS is that doing so requires the judge to be in a position to put HIS OWN IDEOLOGY ON TRIAL. All of us like to believe that we are always correct in our present pronouncements. The tendency is to point to the other guy's faults when he fails and then when we fail we also point to the hand that the other guy has played in contributing to this state.
This selfish tendency is the reason why TRANSPARENCY is so critical in one's objective analysis. If indeed we all are interested in the permanent interests that we say we are - we should be open to submitting to transparent inspection. This will afford the separation of interests that we say we have a high regard for.
For me - the presence of a growing number of head county is not indicative of future success. It should, however, provide a bit more separation between the two or more competing ideologies and allow those who are interested in transparency to make more clear analysis of the situation. Sadly the Black community has too many forces that should be acting as the "checks and balances" all working in close conspiracy with each other that this situation of apparent clarity always yields to the murkiness of how "past racism" or present "benign neglect" from the greater society is the real culprit for the failure. Most certainly NOT the prevailing ideology that more abundantly speaks upon each passing electoral victory.
The dysfunctional byproduct of such a system is that the more POWER this machine receives over these institutions - the more need for POWER EXPANSION the operatives will call for as they translate the happiness that yet another seat has been captured into an avoidance of accountability for the conditions in the turf that has already been under control. The final victory resides in TAKING YET ANOTHER SEAT. "We must REMAIN UNIFIED IN THIS FIGHT!!! If we SPLIT......THEY WIN".
I am not sure that the masses understand what they are seeking to "win" in the first place. They want a string of election night exuberance - it seems.
As a consequence, elected representatives seem to be left untutored in the skills necessary to win competitive contests in majority-white settings. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: Very few black candidates risk running in majority-white constituencies; majority-minority districts thus become the settings in which blacks are most frequently elected.
In such settings, officeholders tend to be pulled to the left — or, in any case, are certainly under no pressure to run as centrists. Their left-leaning tendencies, along with a reluctance to risk elections in majority-white settings, perhaps explain why so few members of the Congressional Black Caucus have run for statewide office and none made a serious bid for the presidency before Barack Obama.
0 comments:
Post a Comment