Even The "LA Black Workers Center" Talks About The Problems But Not THE PROBLEM!!!

Blacks Urged To Unify In The Wake Of Jobs Crisis
(Hat tip to the Black Electorate.com)

I have to respect the boldness of the Black Establishment and those who vociferously defend it.
They, like me, are able to key in upon the broken promises and dreams that have come forth after the "victories" that occurred in the political space.  However, unlike me, they are suggesting that the Black community stay unified and try harder for the next go round.

I simply can't allow the same forces that (mis)lead us into our present condition to drive the tour bus through the next interval of time.

The article linked above expressly says that the cities where Black people live were built up by abundant jobs that paid good money.  I strongly suspect that the "LA Black Workers Center" is strongly pro-union and thus they argue that they played a strong hand in turning "exploitative jobs" into "good paying jobs".  This narrative enjoys strong support by those who have a "struggle milieu".

The key irony that I have a hard time dealing with at present is that in the wake of their "victories" the political arrangement and the organized labor efforts are safely in their hands.  Despite these facts these same places have statistically higher misery indexes.   While they have wrested control away from their corporate enemies and have their will expressed via the regulatory balance within these places - the balance of their promises that kept the people unified have failed to be delivered.


Can we all agree that there is a balance point that needs to be maintained?   Indeed the Industrial Revolution-era corporations that denied its labor force to organize was askew in favor of the owners.  In the period that followed the forces of organized labor too often tipped the balance in the other way.  The corporations in their midst were often seen as the bad guys that must be restrained (See Obama with the insurance companies and banks.  This is the very same spirit that was seen in these places when that mindset was localized.  Imagine if he treated individual misdeeds and irresponsibility as he does the corporate version?  "You who are unemployed are going to pay back every dime that I give you in a monthly check" he would say.).


The problem in the Labor Establishment and the Black Political Establishment is that there is little infrastructure which acts as a counter-balance to their leftist sensibilities.  Not even the evidence of the gross destruction of their own long term interests that many of the population centers where they control proves enough for the bigoted among them to realize that something a bit less than left-extreme indeed is more palatable than the present "jobs desert" that they face.


Unfortunately since they are the writers and griots of their own history their narrative states that they were the heroes who got the exploiters in line and paid out "living wages".  When the corporations realized that they could no longer exploit the workers they shut down shop and moved to the South, to Mexico or to over-seas where they were free to exploit the workers.


I wonder if the gross decline of Detroit, Camden and other once great American cities is not proof of the EXPLOITATION that takes place when only one version of history is told?