So the murder count of Black people in Las Vegas is 4th in the nation. Despite this "force of oppression" which is putting our people into an early grave - the NAACP rattles the chains of "Social Justice".
We see that after decades of the NAACP and other members of the Black Establishment struggling to impanel favorable people over the key institutions of the community - the only thing that has changed is the skin color of those who are lynching us and the methodology used. The gun makes for a far more surgical execution. No need to have one of the members of the lynch mob to know how to tie a note, since so few of them were Boy Scouts, having learned this skill.
The struggle for "social justice" for the Black Establishment is a self-perpetuating one. The incidence of misery triggers more resolve to struggle. The political victory of the favorable person brings joy. Future misery that is exposed merely repeats the cyclical expansionary effect.
MISSING is the notion of HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. The quest for better outcomes per the present state of mind of the Black Establishment and their Snarling Fox partners comes from outward struggle to take over an ever expanding government branch in the hierarchy. Ironically - in order to "make warm" that which is closest to them - they must always "travel greater distances" to obtain "firewood" which is the necessary fuel to make "home" warm for their loved ones. We see clearly that upon returning home with a arm full of timber - the intended beneficiary is found frozen stiff.
- Who will dare to ask this good intentioned establishment "Why didn't you plant some seedlings nearer to your home and nurse them into large trees for future use?
- Who will dare ask those who care about people more than profit "What are your qualifications in managing a nursery? Show me your plans to do so."
- Who among those who suffer frost bite will make strong note to THEM that "Whatever you are doing is not working. You have LOST MY CONFIDENCE. Upon the first crack of spring I will do a nation-wide search for alternatives, bound by the scientific method for my present way of thinking that that I have preferred has caused masses of my people to freeze to death. This at a rate that now surpasses the original reasons that I put you into power to PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY INTERESTS. These external lumberjacks are not now the main threat to us. We now have an INTERNAL TERMITE PROBLEM. You are not a qualified pest control technician."
Article:
LAS VEGAS -- A new study ranks Nevada the fourth worst in homicides involving African Americans.
Many black leaders in Las Vegas were not shocked by the report, but they say it's heartbreaking.
Three years ago, more than 120 valley families grieved the loss of a love one killed during a crime. More than a third of those victims were African American -- many of them young men like Darney Austin whose dreams of being a football star were cut short.
The Clark County Homicide Report
"We don't know what the environment is. Is it gangs? Is it neighborhoods? Is it just people angry with each other," said Pastor James Harden with Youth Eternal.
Pastor Harden says his community is hit twice by these murders because in many cases the suspects are also black.
"Most African American males grow up without a male father counterpart in the home, or even active. So that creates a challenge for these young men to find partnerships or relationships with gangs that breed violence," he said.
Groups have been rallying the communities hardest hit by these crimes and they hope their progress will bring about a different report in the years to come, but they say there is still much to do.
"We have to commit to spending more money toward tutorial, toward affordable housing. Then we want to spend more money than the government spends locking up our youth and putting people in prison," said Frank Hawkins, president of the NAACP.
Hawkins says jobs are needed to help keep teens off the street and the importance of education needs to be impressed upon children early.
"Both parents, if they are working in this environment to try and make a living, keep those kids off the street and give them something that is going to help them because the education is truly the key," he said.
Both groups say after-school program are also needed because parents have to work more hours to support their families.
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While you are clear in your banner that your aim is "ideological regime change", I guess my expectation was that you would present a substantively honest argument. But C'mon 'Constructive', surely even you have to admit that your title was both slanted and disingenuous... I neither heard nor read the NAACP say that the homicide rate was the result of social justice policies. They were discussing their suggestions for what could be done to curb the epidemic of violence which is a much different question... I know you're intelligent enough to know the difference, so obviously the distortion was intentional -- it was also gratuitous...
Constructive, I do apologize, I typically would not put up multiple comments on one post, but another thought just came to me after I'd clicked publish...
In your posts, you routinely refer to the "black establishment" that had been 'put into power' for the broad purpose of 'protecting and/or safeguarding the interests of the community'. But your premise is sophistical -- it has no basis in historical fact. Your "Black Establishment" boogeyman is just that, a strawman -- a construct that provides a focal-point for what would otherwise reveal itself as a series of unfocused non-solution oriented rants about black pathology.
Neither the NAACP, the Urban League, the SCLC, or any other groups were ever "put into power". The groups and associations came into being as people organized around 'specific' issues. Each of them has a mission statement that clearly details their focus.
Now, perhaps none of these groups are working on the issues that YOU believe to be most urgent. And if that is the case, that's wonderful, because it means you've found your niche! Start working. If your ideas have merit, if your plans and solutions work as you purport, then certainly you should expect to see your influence grow commensurately. And that's all there is: there is no coronation. There is no special 'power ceremony'.
But 'Constructive' your ideas and solutions have to be about something more than simply attacking black organizations. If all of these groups vanished tomorrow, their absence would not catapult you into "power". They do not diminish you. They are not suppressing your influence. They are not preventing you from stepping out and solving the problems that you claim to have solutions for. If you are in possession of answers and solutions, for God's sake, get out there and implement them. But metaphors and rhetorical devices are no substitute.
Where is your program? What are you doing? What are your planned outcomes? Where are your deliverables?
If you have the solution, write it down, create a basic mission and value statement, organize people around your premise and tenets and make a difference. Then you could at least say that you were trying as hard as the folks you routinely disparage. That would at least be constructive...
[quote]I neither heard nor read the NAACP say that the homicide rate was the result of social justice policies. [/quote]
KMyles:
First thank you for your comments.
If you read the article and then see - as you say - what the NAACP says could remedy these problems - is it merely "word play" by you to attack me for claim that they are "blaming" Social Justice Policies?
If you see a thirsty man - does it matter that you "BLAME" his thirst on the lack of water and thus give him some OR are you merely appeased by the less accusatory "IF you give this man some water - he won't be thirsty any longer!!".
Regarding the Black Establishment - I have countless posts substantiating my claims.
* Scroll down to the left and see WHO this Black Establishment is composed of.
* See this diagram and show how the Black Community has DELEGATED ITS INTERESTS to this Establishment AND what this Establishment's INTERACTION with the Black "rank and file" is.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mNAOq8ApgBA/S1M0Pxs4EWI/AAAAAAAABdc/igsYKTGQb28/s1600-h/Black+Establishment.jpg
[quote]And if that is the case, that's wonderful, because it means you've found your niche! Start working. If your ideas have merit, if your plans and solutions work as you purport, then certainly you should expect to see your influence grow commensurately. And that's all there is: there is no coronation. There is no special 'power ceremony'.[/quote]
KMyles:
CALL ME A "SUPERIOR BLACK MAN" with 2 votes to the average Negro's ONE and I will do as you say!!!
THE BLACK COMMUNITY ARE NOT "PASSIVE CONSUMERS" who need to WAIT for someone like me who - WORKING OFF OF THE COMMITMENT TO MY RACE - am going to work to 'CONVINCE THEM' of another way.
If people see their SCHOOLS, their streets, their business districts and the line outside of their clinics and STILL SUPPORT the Machine that is in power......worse yet if they still support THEIR OWN PRESENT THINKING then DAMNED THEM!! They have done everything necessary to remain as they are.
Some of you are a walking perversion of Fredrick Douglass who asked that the "Negro be LEFT ALONE to raise or fall as he may".
I have no doubt that you mean well KMyles but the truth is - your suggestion that I DO THE "RACIAL WORK" of 'CONVINCING BLACK PEOPLE' pisses me off.
Why is it that these forces that now run our schools promised that our children would be better off once they have "people who care about Blacks people and are concerned about our interests" take over - things would be better.
The truth is, KMyles YOU fear reaping ACCOUNTABILITY. You fear that if you were to inspect the bill of goods that you were sold - the "universal enemy of Black people" would regain power because YOU now join him in his attack on the machine that you now favor.
This adversary doesn't need to take over the Black community and put us back in our place. He only needs to DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM US - leaving us all alone.
HERE IS WHAT I AM WILLING TO DO IN CONJUNCTION WITH MY PEOPLE:
BIND ALL OF US TO A FRAMEWORK OF PERMANENT INTERESTS:
* Safe Streets
* Quality Schools
* Thriving Local Economies
* Healthy Lifestyle Outcomes
We must have agreement on the GOALS
We can continue to fight like cats and dogs on the METHODS that most EFFECTIVELY achieve these ends.
IF I choose to create a city that has these methods to my liking LET ME GO!!! My blackness is not going to fade off of my skin if I leave you.
From there we need a TRANSPARENT ASSESSOR - a Congressional Budget Office - to MEASURE the EFFECTIVENESS of one strategy versus the next.
I HAVE ZERO COMPULSION to try and FORCE MY METHODS upon a segment of the Black Community who is HOSTILE to new ideas per their latent BIGOTRY.
YOU need to look at how the White Southern Bigot was allowed to remain BIGOTED yet not allowed to harm someone else. When you choose to see the Black man who is assailing you and TREAT HIM THIS SAME WAY - then you can claim that YOU SEE BLACK PEOPLE EQUALLY.
"If you read the article and then see - as you say - what the NAACP says could remedy these problems - is it merely "word play" by you to attack me for claim that they are "blaming" Social Justice Policies?"
Constructive -- blame and solution are not synonymous. I can hardly believe that you typed that with a straight face. If I went to the Doctor with an open wound and he applied a bandage, that does not mean or suggest that my wound was caused by a 'lack of bandages'. If you complain of a headache and someone suggests you take a Tylenol pill. They are not "blaming" your headache on a 'Tylenol deficiency'. That's just silly. I give you credit for being intelligent enough top know the difference, please extend me that same courtesy...
Calling you on that was not "word-play"; you just can't preach accountability then get shady with facts, make baseless accusations, and then try to obfuscate that fact with bluster and bad logic... Your post was titled inaccurately; it was gratuitous and inflammatory, and you already knew that... I only responded for the benefit of your readers that might have missed it...
Now to your "Black Establishment" claims and your "proof". In debate parlance, what you've offered is known as a 'tautology'. You assert that there IS in fact a Black Establishment and to prove it you direct me to your earlier claims of its existence and a diagram that you created... (hence the "Silly Rabbit" reference) It does not exist 'because you said so', even if you said it a million times, that would not make it so. And you diagram only proves that you are pretty handy with Corel products, but nothing more.. Hell, my son once drew a treasure map but that doesn't mean there's really a bag of Gold behind that big tree...
I have no doubt that you mean well KMyles but the truth is - your suggestion that I DO THE "RACIAL WORK" of 'CONVINCING BLACK PEOPLE' pisses me off.
This is a straw man. I have not asked you to do the work of "convincing" anybody. I said, and am saying, that if you have solutions -- employ them. Sitting on the sidelines talking smack may win you a few supporters, but it does nothing to assist the community you claim to care about and whose interests you purport to speak for...
Since you are a fan of metaphor, please allow me to appropriate one of yours...
Consider this: You see a man who is dying of thirst, and beside him you see another man who is taking the available water and attempting to mix it with some other solution. You may believe that the attempt to mix some old solution is pointless. Further, you may believe that the person claiming to help should simply give the dying man the water and abandon the old remedies... Fair enough; but the question is WHAT DO YOU do then?
It would be silly for you to go and try to "convince" the dying man that he really only needed water. That is NOT what I have suggested you do...
But it is equally silly for you to stand on the sidelines, claiming to represent the dying man's interests by yelling to passerby's that you thing the person trying to hep is doing it wrong. That is what you ARE doing.
What I have suggested, and will offer once more, is that if you claim to have the answer/water... then go give it to the dying man. But if you're not talking about what you've done, what you're doing, or what you're about to do.. then you're just talking... and the only 'problem' that solves is our 'lack of noise'.
You said: HERE IS WHAT I AM WILLING TO DO IN CONJUNCTION WITH MY PEOPLE:
BIND ALL OF US TO A FRAMEWORK OF PERMANENT INTERESTS:
* Safe Streets
* Quality Schools
* Thriving Local Economies
* Healthy Lifestyle Outcomes
That's a good start, but what are you going to do to advance any of these goals? Do you have a plan? Do you have any 'next steps'? If your plan is to "write about them on blogger" and wait for them to materialize, well there's a term for that also... its called 'magical thinking'.
The ONLY 'person' you can change in this life is YOU. So what are YOU prepared to do? If the answer is "nothing", then make your peace with the way things are... If you don't like something, get to work on changing it.
You said: The truth is, KMyles YOU fear reaping ACCOUNTABILITY.
Hardly... I love accountability. Anyone who wants to come and be a part of the work we do is welcome. All our decisions are made around the table by consensus, and all opinions are welcome in the debate. If we are wrong or make a mis-step we apologize. We hold a strategic planning session each year where we set our goals and priorities that is open to the public, And we post our goal and priorities as well as our Branch activity reports on the web every year so the community can access them. I am a bona-fide fan of accountability; your statement was a red herring...
You said: IF I choose to create a city that has these methods to my liking LET ME GO!!! My blackness is not going to fade off of my skin if I leave you.
On this we agree... In fact, let me state it even more emphatically... I WANT you to create a city based on these methods. I WANT you to go and do that. I WANT you to "BE" about the things you "TALK" about. So Please, by all means -- go to work. And if you are successful, I will be the first to applaud and say "I knew you when..."
But at this moment, its all bluster and blather... yawn
[quote]; you just can't preach accountability then get shady with facts, make baseless accusations, and then try to obfuscate that fact with bluster and bad logic... Your post was titled inaccurately; it was gratuitous and inflammatory, and you already knew that..[/quote]
Mr Myles - YOU, a member of the NAACP being critical about someone's "inflammatory comments"? Come on now brother.
Here is by basic point - regardless of if it is explicitly assigned as such or merely just filling a void - the NAACP and others indeed function as "THE BLACK ESTABLISHMENT".
You can't position yourselves as the quasi-gatekeepers of everything acceptable to Black people (in the way of policy) and then run from my criticism about the aggregate yet incestuous relationship between your bundle of groups (ie: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights) and the Political Machines that you are attached at the him to......in relationship to the RESULTS ON THE GROUND WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
Its almost like you see yourselves AS "The Black Community". If I wage an attack against your organization - I'm "Slapping my greater-great grandmother".
The truth is that there needs to be a more effective MANAGEMENT CONSTRUCT built up within the Black community so that more of our permanent interests can actually be obtained and maintained not merely INTENDED.
I will yield one point about your organization. It is unfair for me or other critics who scrutinize your effectiveness when you are the only one's stepping forth in the breach.
At the same time the key point that is problematic with you all is the selectivity by which you choose the 'windmills' to chase on behalf of the Black community.
Just think of the irony, Mr Myles - when the White Klan factions were our attackers the demand was for the police authorities to do their job and punish those who assailed our people.
Today, with a disproportionate number of our attackers being Black themselves if these same police authorities work to hard to "punish" the assailants of Black people - per the prison population - then we'll hear from the NAACP.
I agree there there needs to be more preemptive intervention. I think that this must come from the backs of the Black community. IF we value our people then in the face of government shortfalls in funding of our community centers - we need to spend more of the private money under our control upon such socially redeeming investments rather than on consumer electronics and such for our own enjoyment.
Ah ha - your "straw man" in your 4th post:
[quote]But it is equally silly for you to stand on the sidelines, claiming to represent the dying man's interests by yelling to passerby's that you thing the person trying to hep is doing it wrong. That is what you ARE doing.[/quote]
I DID NOT SAY that I "represent the interests of the dying man".
I ONLY said that if indeed we are to share a RACIAL or NATIONAL bond that we need to have agreement on some common FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES - which I listed.
I AM NOT going to "go into the community 'WITH A PLAN' ".
In fact I am calling out YOU who are not only "IN THE COMMUNITY" but also ENJOY popular and willful CONTROL over the key institutions that our people look toward for their civic services.
Myles - its almost like you all want the benefit of being entrusted as such yet - empowered to call all others (ME) "perpetrators" and such. At some point the notion of ESTABLISHMENT must be placed upon your back per the evidence at hand.
(It kills me when I hear some people saying BARACK OBAMA needs to "SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER".......HE IS the freaking POWER!!!)
Just as your organization STRUGGLED against the Establishment Powers who's results where not inline with the interests of Black people - YOU need to be scrutinized as such with the goal of producing better results - NOTHING PERSONAL.
Isn't this called TRANSPARENCY - Mr Myles?
Gangs, drugs, guns, anti-intellectualism, teen pregnancy, and other reckless, sometimes criminal behavior choices are doing more to destroy children who grow up impoverished and lacking parental guidance & support than the remnants of institutional racism that the NAACP continues to attack. We are the descendents of a people who survived the Middle Passage, Chattel Slavery, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Struggle. Yet, when I go into elementary, middle, and high schools in Memphis I see a lack of engagement and effort from a majority of young people who share the same proud heritage that I claim, being an American of African descent.
I think it is past time for our society to hold low-performing students and their parents strictly accountable for academic performance and behavior in school and the community. What I see in schools every day is a disgrace to the sacrifices made by those who came before us.
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