Scrutiny allows me to do a bit of introspection. I can evaluate the claims against the model of the world as I know it and adjust my model based upon the "constructive feedback" received.
My recent focus upon the antics of the "Martin Luther King Center For NON-VIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE" generated a bit of debate on the "Booker Rising" blog. Some said I did not "connect the dots" between the street crimes in Atlanta and the obligation that the King Center has to address it. Another person said that I basically built up a straw man ("crime in Atlanta") for the purposes of attacking Black Democrats. This was merely a continuance of my obsession to attack Progressives - it was alleged.
Of course my view is - THIS AIN'T ABOUT ME!!!!
What we are seeing is the tactic of "Keeping your adversaries on trial" (ME).
Despite the fact that these critics all agree with me that the Black community is being terrorized by my real focus - murder and assaults which trigger the following results:
- Terrorized Black residents who have to look at the "police line" in their community
- Metro area news viewers who make note of where the pockets of crime are and make sure they never make the mistake of going into these places
- Declining property values and empty restaurants and businesses because of safety fears
- and of course "Black people crying on the television news" - grieving over the death of a loved one
Ironically - the origins of the "Civil Rights Movement" was to hold the ground upon the dignity of the Black community and to address the SYSTEMATIC assault upon the people within.
It is clear, however, that many of those who criticize my expose on the assault by Street Pirates are merely protecting the ESTABLISHMENT. This time an establishment power "within the Black community" that they favor. Not even this wave of assault upon actual Black people are going to force them to actually go against the people who assumed power based upon the notion that Black people have a right to:
- Live in their communities without fear of violence
- Not have our businesses threatened by damage or theft of property
- Have schools in which the academic environment is fostered rather than suppressed
With this in mind I was driven to write a "Part II" to the previous focus upon the self-indulgent focus of the Black Civil Rights, particularly in Atlanta. As "Rome Burned" around them - they focused on protecting their church edifice as the community burned down.
Upon hearing the claim that I failed to "connect the dots" about the King Center, I recalled the news clip from the morning news about the planned protest march by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) - a sister organization to the "King Center", both of them located in the "King Compound" in Atlanta.
I allowed this news clip about the SCLC to run long. It opens with 2 local "Street Pirate" assaults that serve as "dots" on where the focus of the civil rights organizations should be. If the murder of a Black man where "Street Pirates" break into his home and SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD AS HE SLEPT is not a "civil rights violation" akin to when the Klan broke in and "STRUNG UP" the Black man.....because they believed that they COULD GET AWAY WITH IT - then maybe it is me who is out of line.
According to the story the SCLC march was planned for 4pm later that day. It was done in support of the organization as they move forward beyond their recent problems.
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When the 5pm news came they ran a feed of the SCLC protest. Thus I got a better understanding of the SCLC protest:
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There are the "dots to be connected"!!
Members of the SCLC are holding a PROTEST MARCH.........AGAINST THE SCLC!!!!!!!
I didn't pick up the previous notation that this was a protest march by one faction of the SCLC against another. I thought that it was a pep rally where they would unify against a common threat.
It is clear that they need a common threat to retain the guise of unity. Now that I see what happens when they lose focus I am less bothered by them digging up old ghosts to focus upon. My mission, however, is to get them focused upon more RELEVANT enemies in line with today's challenges confronting our community: STREET PIRATES and the CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS they render.
I warned you all that there would be days like this!
When the "Actor-vists" have WON in the areas where they were most focused upon - they would lose their way. They benefit most from a "common enemy" to unite them. Within the elected government of the City of Atlanta - EVERYONE IS A DEMOCRAT! There is no motivation to protest against the mayor or the city council. This leads to too much contention at the Georgia State Democratic Party weekend and at the NAACP and SCLC award banquets. With unity the seating at the banquet table is less challenging. Have you ever been a banquet coordinator that had to populate 50 tables where there were factions fighting each other? You would have to be careful to not seat two enemies at the same table.
It is far easier to keep them both focused on a common, EXTERNAL enemy.
Dr Ronald Walters - I feel you man. You are correct about the need for the Black body politic to stay UNIFIED. Fracturing is not good...........for the Black Establishment's agenda.
If the Black Community fractured it WOULD be a good thing. As long as the fracture was made between:
- Those who were content in protecting the people who have PORTRAITS HANGING ON THE WALL - that comes with their election into office
- Those who have their consciousness focused on obtaining and retaining the PERMANENT INTERESTS of the Black Community
Here are some other relevant news stories that were played during this same news cycle, again CONNECTING THE DOTS.
Please note the references to "TAKE BACK THE COMMUNITY". You know that this is now a "racist term" per the "Tea Party" protests.
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When Frederick Douglass (then Bailey) was a young slave, his master's wife began to teach him how to read. When the master discovered what his wife was doing, he angrily and immediately put a stop to it.
He told his wife that teaching a slave to read would make them unfit to be a slave. Fortunately for those of us who are decendents of those held in bondage in this country a mere 160+ years ago, many of our ancesters did not allow forced servitude, government-sanctioned oppression, nor violent intemidation to keep them from learning.
Despite the tremendous gains that have been made as a result of the struggles of the past, far too many decendents of slaves are in a self-imposed bondage that is fueled by reckless, anti-social, anti-intellectual behavior that has become their norm.
Even more disheartening is the fact that some of the institutions that were leading the revolutionary movement that righted this nation's original sin of slavery and second class citizenship are at the forefront in protecting the thug sub-culture that is hell-bent on destroying those gains.
The street pirates are the 21st century Ku Klux Klan, Bloody Shirts, and White Citizen's Councils. Their skin tone may be different, but the objectives are similar.
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