BQPFRCs Battle BQPFRCs - Smiley Vs Sharpton Over Obama

Black America Web: Smiley, Sharpton Spar Over Black Agenda, Obama

For some of you who are watching this verbal sparring match between the "Black Folks Must Hold Obama Accountable" camp headed by Tavis Smiley versus the "When Obama Wins WE When Thus Black Folks Must Guide Obama Respectfully" camp headed by Al Sharpton (and the bulk of the Black Progressive Establishment).

I am of NEITHER of these groups.

I say BOTH OF THESE GROUPS NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!!!  They both are birds of the same flock.

This is no "Booker T Washington vs William Monroe Trotter" or "Marcus Garvey vs W.E.B. Du Bois".  This is akin to the great battle that I reported on in 2008:  "Mr Michael Eric Dyson for Obama versus Mrs Marcia Dyson for Clinton".  At the end of the article they both agreed that they wanted the Democrat to win.  This is called "diversity of thought" by the Black Establishment forces.  At least as much as they care to attend to.

The key question that must be asked of these two cliques are:

1. Did both of them vote for Obama?
2. Did both of them SELL our community on the benefits there in?
3. (more importantly) Did both of them assist in the erection of the MACHINE that now controls every single voting district in America where Black folks are at least 35%+ of the voting base?
4. (most importantly) Do both of them share the same prevailing ideological, economic, academic and cultural order that controls the KEY INSTITUTIONS within Black America?
5. Were we SOLD on the benefits after each and every step along the way to where we are right now?

WHY THEN should Black America figure that by "picking sides" in one of these FACTIONS is a sufficient way forward?  They are merely a sub-container within a larger container of LEFTIST POLITICS (Social Justice and "Demand-Side Economic Policies).  

For those of you with any sort of management science inclination to your way of thinking - This is a battle over TACTICS not STRATEGY. (I have been referring to the terms "Goals/ Methodology/Vehicle" so I will switch over to these terms.)

• Common Goal Between The Two Factions - Advance The Interests Of The Black Community 
• Common Methodology Between The Two Factions: - Use THE GOVERNMENT as the primary channel by which these interests are advanced.  (Progressive Politics)

The split comes when it comes to the interaction with THE VEHICLE that they have been using.  The VEHICLE is THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY as the assembler of  "Progressive Policies".  They need to "conquer America" and thus the benefits will rain down upon the Black community.  There is no need for the Black community to radically reform itself internally in order to have this "rain water" to soak in.

The election of Barack Obama is the source of this conflict between these two "peas in the same pod".   

• DO We CONTINUE to "Speak Truth To Power" now that WE have one of our own IN POWER?  Agitating and showing "Faux Moral Outrage" over what "the power" has been doing?

OR

• DO We Fold our "Black Establishment Organizations" in with the MACHINE that is in power (just as we helped them to become) and thus work THROUGH them to assist them in being successful?

MY VIEW as a Black Conservative Independent:  BOTH OF THEM SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!!!

1. They don't want to acknowledge that with Obama (a Democrat and an 'favorable Black') in the White House and the Democrats controlling congress that they are at the apex of their power (especially in 2009 when there were 60 votes in the US Senate).   
2. In addition to the horizontal power structure they also have a vertical structure in certain key states: CA, NY, NJ, MD, PA, IL, MI, WI, CT, MA - solid blue states where, except for some exceptions - the Democrats run things from the municipal to county to state level - where Black folks live in our highest concentrations
3. They have a circular reference to their advocacy - Aggrievable conditions in the places where they have POWER emboldens this same force to obtain more power as they expand.  The theory is that if they had a more expansive VERTICAL power base - that one day this victory would cause the Black Community to prosper after having thwarted the enemy - CONSERVATIVES

Some of you fail to see that they are now standing at the edge of the Pacific Ocean and are still "naval gazing" regarding how further expansion against their CONSERVATIVE enemy - going westward - is going to paper over some key problems.   Their apparent "PROGRESS" forward as seen in election night was taken as absolute advancement by those who were over joyed.

The reason why both should be held accountable is because they both bought into the battle in the "American Political Domain".  They believe that the void in Black America is a denial of SOCIAL JUSTICE RIGHTS.   Who is the "payee" of these Social Justice Rights?   

ANSWER:  Other Americans.

Not through the purchase of a good or service that the buy VALUES and thus receives benefit from its consumption.

Instead their transaction dependent upon the BUYER to live up to some principles that they themselves don't hold in common or at least they can't get "their own people" to buy into when we interact with each other.   Try demanding 40% of financial resources from the wallet of a common Black man walking down the street in the name of "social justice".  I rest my case.

All the while that they were serving as the "victimized poster child" on behalf of the Snarling Fox White Liberal Democrat - these leaders from this combined clique that is now squabbling over how to engage the "Democratic Machine" (which Obama as President is) they failed to erect the needed infrastructure WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

They figured that by scaling up the various plateaus - Black mayors/County Managers/Governors and now President that they had a sound foundation.  In truth ONE BLACK MAN'S SUCCESS merely appeased our people from the hard truth.

I refuse to allow those who lead us down the path of the "American Political Domain" to retain any credibility in the protected space of the "Community Cultural Consciousness and Competence Domain".   When not pressed to do so - they showed which domain they are more committed to.

In truth both of these factions are debating over the disposition that the Black community should take with respect to the "Government King":

• Should we CONFRONT HIM - demanding that he feed us?
• Should we WORK WITH HIM to have us plant more seeds that come from bags stamped with the words "USAID"? 

The one painful truth is apparent - after more than 40 decades of following their lead and ARRIVING AT the apex of that which is possible in the domain that they focused upon - our community is no more able to organically yield produce from the fields  that we now are assigned to tend (per our control) than we had been previously.

This debate seems fatal only because neither of these groups tolerated dissent nor did they erect a platform where such strategic debates are held TRANSPARENTLY.   Note the planned Chicago conference between "Tavis & Friends".   Basically "The New All White Jury" of Progressive-Fundamentalists have reconvened.

The media host listed some of the most noted political and academic leaders as invited guests, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, author and scholar Michael Eric Dyson, professor Cornel West, California Rep. Barbara Lee and Dorothy Height of the National Council Negro Women.

Surely this is a line up of RADICAL INTROSPECTIONALISTS.

With the great "seed distributor from high" heading toward bankruptcy this demand for increased dependency upon it is even more puzzling to me.