This posting serves as yet another attempt to model the past and present disposition of the Black community in the context of its American experience. The goal is to explain the reasons why certain choices were made and to discover if these choices are still working in our own best interests. My goal is to map the level of grievance that is heard to day among Black people with a dogma that can be applied that will actually work to resolve these problems rather than benefit those forces who "feel our pain" and profit greatly in their attempts to address it. Please see this as a check point in which I seek "earnest money" prior to agreeing to go further along for the ride.
The Needs Of The Black Community
I will argue my points using the framework of the "Permanent Interests" of the Black community.
- Public Safety
- Education
- Economic Participation
- Public Health
My argument is that some of the relationships that were taken for defensive purposes at a given point in time when a particular unchecked adversary was a threat to these interests must be reanalyzed to insure that the current disposition is in line with the present prevailing threats and that our people retain our independent focus upon our permanent interests. Failing to do so, the people will fuse their interests upon an external entity who's ultimate goal is not their own permanent interests. The people can only ever find themselves marginalized in the end. Worse yet if there is not a goal of ultimate organic independence over time - these people could not separate even if they wanted to due to the lack in their ability to maintain their standard of living as expressed in the framework.
I have the opinion that no one who is transparently interested in insuring that we are walking forward to obtain the "Black Permanent Interests" should take offense to the occasional inspection. Just as any financial services firm - they should look forward to transparently producing their activities and present standing to the "rank and file" to insure that everyone is fully aware of where they stand and what is needed from the masses so that we can move forward.
Sadly there are also some operatives who play upon Black people's fears about the future. Per their agenda - their goal is to keep Black people unified and under the confines of the "protection racket" because their ultimate interests resides in keeping the PROTECTOR strong rather than allowing the natural dispersion of Black thought to spread - just as we see in other majority Black nations who have had more years of experience in running their own national affairs.
The true evidence that the Black American has achieved the state of EQUALITY is when the forces WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY allow an otherwise intelligent Black person to look at a set of facts and then stake his position at a given point on the ideological spectrum without the present "attack sheep dogs" biting the wayward sheep upon the back of the neck and pulling him back into the flock. Ironically it is the "attack sheep dog" that executes the majority of attack that this "Wayward Black" is likely to experience.
I will now apply the framework to the various periods of time that the African-American has experienced during his time of freedom.
(Up To And Including The....) Civil Rights Period - The Fight For Basic Rights
Since Reconstruction the African-American had nominal freedom but was living at the time in a system in which "The Negro had no rights which a White man need respect". Thus even when the Black community did field an organically built infrastructure to take care of the needs listed a race riot could leave all of this as one smoldering heap of ashes as the larger White racist community acted without confinement by legal sanction. Ironically Black people would be locked up after the community suffered destruction from torch bearing lynch mobs.
This time period spans from The period of Reconstruction through the Civil Rights era until the Black vote was secured and it could choose its own leaders in a democratic process in which his rights were protected.
(Please note: I acknowledge that the span of 1870 through to 1965 covers a wide span of time and does not acknowledge the impact of the Labor Movement and the changes that resulted from the Black involvement in WWII. The point is that none of these intermediate periods saw a change in the forces in power over the Black community. Thus I don't see the need to specifically break them out.
There were many forces reaching out to take up the cause of the African-American, offering protections. With the government in the hands of unyielding racists in both parties - it was left up to independent organizations such as the church community to provide health care and nutrition to Black communities that were in need. A significant portion of the historically Black educational and hospital institutions available today were founded by various church entities over time.
Thus Blacks were largely unaffiliated with a given American political party because, in effect, there were so few places that they could express their right to vote. This was especially so in the South where Blacks lived in their greatest numbers.
Post-Civil Rights Period - Uniting With Labor And The Democrats To Control Municipal Institutions
The "Protection Racket" was sealed.
I reported the words of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin from 1968. Mr Rustin in the documentary "Brother Undercover" reported the results of a post-MLK Jr assassination meeting in which the players sought to define "Where Do We Go From Here?".
The conclusion was that "The Black Community should work to build up POLITICAL power via the DEMOCRATIC PARTY as the primary means of addressing our SOCIAL JUSTICE demands for our community".
This was the announcement of the "contract signature" for the Protection Racket that has existed between the progressive forces of the Democratic Party and the Black Establishment operatives. At this point the Black Operatives, working as "Democrats who are Black" committed to harvest the Black vote for delivery to the front doors of the Democratic Party.
I will even go so far at to state (as a Black Conservative Independent) that AT THAT TIME, this was a rational strategy only because the Black Establishment leaders had no basis by which to calculate the dangers of such an alignment to our CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS. The attainment of the items with the framework was a rational impetus for this relationship.
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