He shows a picture of legendary Sambo character "Step N Fetch It" along with folk teller Will Rogers. BET Uncut Photoshopped a Republican logo on Rogers in order to make a reference to the "superior/inferior" connection between Black Republicans and White Republicans.
Of course the fact that Will Rogers was a life long Democrat did not prevent BET Uncut from proceeding with his bit.
I am not a member of any organized political party.
I am a Democrat. – Will Rogers
As I was going through my stack of newspapers, attempting to catch up on my research I came across the picture below.
While this picture came from the "Wall Street Journal" - owned by "The News Corp" - the company that tortures Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive-Fundamentalist Racism Chasers by showing Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly - I plead guilty to doctoring the picture in order to make a point.
You see back on the BET Uncut blog the panel of the "Neo-All White Jury" has agreed with MSNBC's assessment that President Obama has "accomplished" more than any other president since FDR. I choose not to debate the point but instead take the argument to the streets and look where it counts most to Black people that have overwhelmingly supported Obama and the machine that likely dominates where they live.
The picture is real rather than an entertainment piece as BET Uncut showed. The picture is of Frank Wallace a Black man, a family man, who has been unemployed since May 2009, within 10 weeks of being jubilant about the ascension of President Obama into office.
To be clear I do not believe that any president of the United States has the power to create abundant private sector jobs. In fact, the tools that the Prez does have to tweak the job market has the economic consequence of running up the federal debt. Any jobs that are created by this government stimulus must add more economic value to the economy than the debt burden that is produced in the wake.
My problem with BET Uncut and other members of the "Neo-All White Jury" is that the are focused more on protecting Obama and singing the praise of his legislative exploits - with the assistance of a monopoly Democratic majority in both houses of Congress than they care to go back to the places within the Black community to see how all of this "hope and change" is fairing.
When I look I get the sense that the present economic peril that is present within our community - our 16% unemployment rate - that our people are being used for the sake of a grand protection racket. In one of the biggest "let them eat cake" scams in this nation's history we Black folks are asked to look proudly at the "Obama Commemorative Plate" on our mantle and over look the fact that many of us have only table scraps to eat from this plate. These operatives deemphasize the fact that the same machine that is in the White House and US Congress also control the key institutions where the highest concentrations of Black people live - just as they have appointed them into power with their vote.
Though the popular political discourse within the Black community will not have this Neo-All White Jury labeled as "Sellouts" to the Black permanent interests in favor of their permanent friend Obama - the truth is that this is functionally what is happening.
The cost of the silence within the Black community on this matter simply means that we will "keep trying harder" in pursuit of the same theories. The painful truth failing to be the "hand on the hot stove" that provides "corrective feedback".
Instead I suspect that Frank Wallace and hundreds of thousands of Black people just like him will join the call from the Civil Rights Pharisees to march for "Jobs and Justice" later this year.
My question:
- Who are you marching against as you now control the local economic institutions where you live?
- What justice do you pursue outward that you can't see the the gross "non-justice" that is occurring in these same communities where our people are being terrorized so?
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