Stanley Crouch On Rachel Maddow Who Is Never "On" The Black Community

Stanley Crouch: Mad about Maddow: The MSNBC host seeks influence, but she wants it on her own terms

(hat tip to Booker Rising blog)

The most frustrating element to me about certain "biased Black media operatives" is that they fail to "GET IT" when it comes to the proper analysis of their friends and enemies.

They are so often flattered by the notion that "the enemy of their enemies" are attacking these enemies far more articulately than they can manage to do so.  The above article penned by Stanley Crouch was a complement of a partner in the war against "White conservatives".  This is the primary measure of his BFFs.

As I have observed Rachel Maddow (I record her show every night) I have come up with the key indictment against her.  An indictment that Mr Crouch has missed despite it being the occasional focus of his own articles.

Make note of the topics that Rachel Maddow (and her court jester partner - Keith Olbermann) brings up on her show.  She is basically "Anti-Republican"/"Anti-Conservative".  In this regard her content is music to the ears of the average Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive-Fundamentalist Racism Chaser.  She is but another source for their syndication (HuffPo, DailyKOS, Media Matters and a few others rounding out the list).

The "'people's champion'" against organized assailants" is how Ms Maddow positions herself.  She is the "Progressive's Progressive" in this regard.  The indictment that I render against Ms Maddow is that when it comes to the Black Community she has "No Urban Mandate". 

Make a list of the key forces that are terrorizing Black people in 2010.  How many of the legitimate items on the list are caused by the "conservatives" that get so much attention from Ms Maddow?   In turn she knows that if she did go after these forces that most abundantly undercut the interests of our community in 2010 - the very same Black Progressive-Fundamentalists that attack me for calling out these forces would also disconnect from her apron string.  Thus it becomes a matter of "SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO CALL THEM OUT".  There is simply no particular benefit for her to do so.  Her Black followers, of which Mr Crouch seems to be one - is not demanding this of her.  She is more than happy to be complicit.

Let's consider her own bete noir - Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.  When they dare talk about the ills of the Black community and have the audacity to blame it upon Black people themselves - those who had been sitting silent in their grievance about the assaults that our communities have faced by this inside threat seem to gain new life in their unity against the latest assault upon them rendered by Fox News or some other "News Corporation" media property.  Again - Maddow gains nothing by chiming into the "Negro Problem" with any sort of objectivity.

Even upon hearing news that the Crips, Bloods and "Gangster Disciples" have expanded their footprint into more cities - with murderous results - Ms Maddow is not inclined to go after the organized conspirators who pulled the trigger.  This is because - unlike the IRS employee who hung himself - there was no Right-Wing antagonist upon which she could hang place her brand upon.

If she was to talk about the impact of "Street Pirate Gangs" upon the Black community she would package it in a gift wrap that is appealing to the Black Progressive Establishment:  The legacy of racism and marginalization gave these Black and Hispanic males few options other than joining the only employer in their community.

What is most disappointing with Mr Crouch's article is that he dares make reference to Rachel Maddow - the White Liberal in the context of the Civil Rights Movement.  Indeed the White liberal of that time in the past were fighting against the forces that terrorized and killed Black people without regard to our civil rights and dignity.  He is unwilling to note that it was the establishment of a system of laws and the enforcement there in which PUNISHED those who would assail Black people.  Less than changing their minds about race - the key was that if they acted out upon their hatred based upon race - there would be legal consequences.

The Black Progressive-Fundamentalist is conflicted today because if they were to apply this same "law and order" approach against the most prevalent assailant to our people -  this would lead to a jailhouse full of Black folks who act the part of "Street Pirates".   Thus the "boil the ocean" approach where the "police line" is expanded to where the entire United States and its history is the crime scene is the appeal of Stanley Crouch and the rest of the Black Establishment press.  They fail to understand that their stance is an "anti-human resource management" stance.  It disconnects the recent run-up in Progressive and Black Establishment power from the actual solutions to our community's problems.  In truth it exposes their real agenda - POWER - for the sake of IDEOLOGICAL PROWESS (Portrait On The Wall Worship).

I still have a small and diminishing regard for Mr Crouch's commentary.  Still I can't understand how he fails to see that Ms Maddow and other MSNBC Operatives only care about the interests of the Black community in as much as our prevailing political order are their "BFFs" in their own fight against Conservatives.   I think that Mr Crouch knows that if he expects too much from the "Snarling Fox White Liberal" that he is going to be disappointed in what he sees.