Soon after the Black Brain Trust cleared out of Chicago there were calls for a force that some thought would be more effective to take their place - the Illinois National Guard.
My post is not an attack on anyone at this table per se. None of them have ever assaulted a Black person in Chicago. As far as I know - Juliane Malveaux has never harmed anyone beyond wishing that Justice Clarence Thomas would have a heart attack after his "White wife" fed him eggs for breakfast each morning.
Instead of an attack on Progressives, The Black Establishment or the Democratic Machine I am merely asking for CONSISTENCY based on my own knowledge of history.
History Of The National Guard
Guard units played key roles during the Civil Rights Era. In 1956 President Eisenhower federalized the entire Arkansas National Guard for a month to prevent a segregationist governor from using it to stop the court-ordered integration of Little Rock High School. The scene was replayed in 1962 during the desegregation of the University of Mississippi. In both cases, Guardsmen obeyed the President and helped enforce the law, even though real progress in effectively integrating
The environment of violence and non-justice in the South during the Civil Rights Era required the National Guard to come in to come in and supplant the prevailing local forces. Their entrenchment made for a "killing field" for Black people where murder and intimidation was used to advance the interests of the establishment forces. There was a unified call to have the forces that were doing the killing and the forces of government who were ineffective in protecting the Black community to be toppled lest the blood continue to flow.
What about modern day Chicago which hit the century mark for homicide in the fourth month of the year is materially different than the conditions in South of the past? Likewise there are forces who seek to protect the killers and who seek to defend the local establishment, protecting them from the embarrassment of having to answer for the tragic condition: "Dead Negroes In The Streets"
Chicago surpasses 100th homicide mark
The 100th homicide of 2010 was recorded last week in Chicago, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. It was about the same time last year—April—the city's homicide tally moved into triple digits.
In the last week, Chicago police recorded 17 homicides, an unusual spate of violence for April. Sixteen of the victims died from gunshot wounds. One victim, a 78-year-old woman, died from asphyxia after a plastic bag was placed over her head in her Edgewater home, according to information from the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
Meanwhile, North Lawndale recorded three homicides in the last week, including a double homicide on Sunday in which two men, ages 21 and 25, were shot to death, according to a records review.
Chatham and Greater Grand Crossing each saw two homicides in the last week. Gunshot deaths also were recorded in Auburn Gresham, Avalon Park, East Garfield Park, the Lower West Side, Morgan Park, New City, Roseland, Washington Park and West Englewood.
Citywide, 34 homicides have been recorded so far this month and 106 this year, as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, RedEye found. Chicago police recorded 41 homicides in April last year, based on a RedEye analysis.
The Free-Range Negro Leadership
I have ranted continuously about the unrecognized costs that are borne by the Black community for allowing the present disposition with the popular leadership. They are allowed to travel the nation looking for issues that match their forte - rendering indictments against the system. Their main weakness is - after aggregating power and becoming the establishment themselves they are disinclined to render indictments. This despite occupying the seats of power that they used to protest against.
All the while the Black rank and file are made to believe that we are WINNING. As long as we live vicariously through the political victories of these operatives (and don't look around at home too inquisitively) we can be made to believe that our elation is justified.
I assure you people that I am not a Black man with a depressed disposition. Instead I am watching a game being played and I am resolute to not allow it to continue upon our backs.
The truth is that we have far too many professionally educated people with management skills to see through all that is happening in the name of a power grab for forces who ultimately could care less about the interests of the Black community. These individuals should see that while their short term interests in which they see their ideological soul mates standing tall, it is the long run truth which proves far too disconcerting for our community. The need is for a system by which anyone who purports to stand in the interests of our community are made to prove that they have done so. This does not come from their own "self-analysis" with a Black Media operative that they dined with the night before to rehearse the line of questioning that the figure will be asked.
There is an immature level of acceptance of dissent and criticism within. One of the worst offenses that a Black person seeking to retain his good standing within the community can do is to ASK QUESTIONS and be accused of sounding like a Republican or Conservative. TODAY I was asked by a poster" WHO'S SIDE ARE YOU ON?" (True story). I laughed at this technique which works well in high school.
We as a community lose as certain operatives who know the exploitable points that can be tweaked within our community are leveraged, mostly for diversionary purposes.
Ironically as these Free Range Negro Leaders are able to cherry pick the issues they wish to focus upon they do so in the name of protecting the civil rights of the people inside of the fort that they have departed from.
This post is less about these people who have access to various megaphones and more about the Black Rank and File. The time is now to set up a more transparent infrastructure. One that focused upon Human Resource Development and Management. Another that focuses upon the measure of the efficacy of the prescription that our community was given.
Rest assure - those who now enjoy unchecked POWER in the context of our present void of governance are the least likely to initiate such a structure. As long as they can make the case that our ailments are due to racism rather than "benign neglect" stemming from their own failed vision - don't expect substantive changes.
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