Committing BQPFRC Theories To Paper

Don't blame me.

You all fought hard so that I could attend the "majority White" university that I attended.

You all struggled so that I could have my resume evaluated fairly for employment by the big, capitalistic corporation that I work for.

Don't go getting mad when I take my years of indoctrination in school and in the corporate environment and dare to apply this analysis upon the Black community.

Today I work as a business consultant. I am paid to watch people, evaluating their tasks in the context of a system. In effect a corporation is nothing more than a group of people who are working with respect to a common end game as motivated by the corporate governors.

First we read the corporate annual report as a means of understanding their key business objectives. Understand the firm's desired business process. Make suggestions as to how the communications and technology solutions that the corporation who pays me has to offer to the customer in support of the efficient operations of their business.

As much as we are inclined to see people dismissive about the applicability of using corporate management and "time and motion" studies in the context of sociology or community analysis - you'd actually be surprised at how much overlap there is.

We are essentially talking about "human behavior" and motivation techniques in both cases. It is true that a corporation has a stronger command and control structure. Either you do your job or you are fired. A community of people do not have that same strong relationship.

It is also true that a group of people has the ability to use various methods to cajole certain behaviors out of a person. Peer Pressure, shunning or even the threat of physical violence all work to direct people toward a certain desired end.

With all of this as a back drop - I am sure that many of you are asking:

WHAT IS THAT DIAGRAM AND WHERE DID IT COME FROM?

I have a constant debate adversary who I call "BET Uncut". He calls himself "BT". A few weeks ago he posted the statement "America is run by rich White people". This may have been words echoed from Rev Jeremiah Wright - but don't quote me. None the less - the source is not important. I am interested in analysing this statement as related to the behavior of the Black Establishment.

In hearing this statement one would think that in identifying who runs America that this group of Black folks would also show an equal amount of skepticism and defensiveness against the "rich White folks" that are of concern to them. This is where you would be wrong.

Whereas my criticism of many of my debate adversary resides in the fact that one can never pin them down as to what they believe because by allowing their views to remain in their mind - they are able to subjectively apply these sanctions upon people - I have decided to get one step ahead of them and commit their views to paper. This will allow me to analyze their views.

The diagram above splits the population of "Rich White Folks" into two major categories": "Rich White Progressives" and "Rich White Conservatives".

Just as I have previously identified the anomaly of how despite the fact that certain Black people:

• Demand to gain membership in a certain private White majority club


• Demand to integrate into a majority White school - even if it is out of their own neighborhood


• Struggle to enter the executive suite that is populated by people who's party affiliation and ideological leanings are different than their own


• Fly out of the Progressive Urban Core to take up residency within a Conservative Suburban area with a voting pattern that is not of their own


• (and a new entry) - Seek to swim at a swimming pool with people who have shown that they would rather them not be there

Despite these noted points of willingness to cavort with White folks (some of them "rich White folks") when it comes to accepting the ideology and the party membership of a certain segment of rich White folks - there is indeed an anomaly that is detected.

Recall about a year ago I reported about seeing a demographer's analysis about the linkage between income level and ideology/party preference. The conclusion provided on this C-SPAN presentation was that there was indeed a correlation between income and ideology/party preference. The Democratic Party received the bulk of the votes from the working class and poor. The Republican Party received the lions share of the wealthy or business class individuals. The demographer noted that when it comes to income mobility - as people gained wealth they assumed more "wealth protection" strategies and thus they began to favor the Republicans.

Please recall that there one big asterisk that I noted in the presentation. The demographer noted that there was no elasticity in the vote of the African-American. Regardless of his income level he was a Democrat. Even Jewish Americans who are assumed to be loyal Democrats did not receive special notation in this regard.

Let me be clear - I am NOT asking Black folks to stop voting for the Democrats. I am only seeking to analysis WHY and to understand what internal forces are insuring this result. I am also seeking to understand whom is the primary beneficiary of this.

(Yes there is a sarcastic bent to the diagram)

The fact remains that the distinguishing feature IS NOT "the rich White people" (vs Poor) that Black people are willing to coalesce with. Since both of these groups of "rich White people" have money then there must be some other key relational difference that distinguishes their relationship with most African-Americans.