A new edited video clip came to my attention on "The Magic Negro Watch" blog. It shows the thoughts of another Sherrod. This time the husband Charles Sherrod.
When I hear views as expressed by Charles Sherrod or Jeremiah Wright as they talk about "the White man" and "Uncle Tom Blacks" who disagree with them I am not surprised one bit. These type of views are common among the hate-filled, attack Left. I have lived my entire adult life listening to such views. They are as intolerant as their right-wing adversaries are. The key difference is that they believe that their hatred is justified because their adversary are the one's that will stop at nothing to gain power. Thus they respond in kind.
Charles Sherrod is talking about the creation of a new community radio station in Albany Georgia. If you want to hear similar talk about "White folks" - tune into WRFG Atlanta at 7pm on Friday nights or within several shows in the weekend line up on "XM 69 The Power". Look no further if you want to hear the same style of racism based talk that right-wing radio is called out upon. If Mr Sherrod wants to hear episodes of fear based electioneering he should tune in to these venues. They all stream their content on the Internet. f
When Mr Sherrod talks about "Black Uncle Toms that vote AGAINST THE BLACK INTERESTS" he is speaking of Black people who are not LEFTIST. You see there is little qualification of "Black Best Interests" beyond what he is talking about:
LEFTIST POLICIES WITH THE INTENTION OF HELPING BLACK PEOPLE.Mr Sherrod doesn't much care if these policies work as prescribed. He is more interested in the unifying and struggle effect that they garner.
If I take Mr Sherrod on a tour of:
- Black Schools that favorable people to him now run but which are failing to provide quality education
- Business Districts in some Black areas that don't produce opportunity
I assure you that Mr Sherrod would be more emboldened by the need to continue struggling than he would be interested in a course correction so that these entities might be fixed.
In Durham "Quality Education" Means Distributing The Poor Blacks So They Are Not Concentrated Into Schools
Yesterday's "Tell Me More" program on NPR featured an interesting set of details about the school diversity debate in Durham North Carolina.
I learned from the NAACP representative that "quality education" means that no Black student shall be in a school that has over 40% of other poor Black people in it. Yes I purposefully inserted the qualified word "poor Black" because if this was not the greatest number of the poor the NAACP would not be doggedly pursuing this issue. The policy says "40% receiving school lunches" and a 25% of people scoring below proficiency levels.
My problem with the North Carolina NAACP is that they key upon DIVERSITY as the magic elixir rather than the management of the human and community resources in question. They are all but yielding that a group of poor students in a school is a group of INFERIOR students, who's situation is so dysfunctional that they need to be diluted into a broader (White) cultural prevailing standard.
Reverend William J Barber won't ever be so bold as to admit that he is using the diversity claim as a rouse for his underlying point: Too many poor Black people in one school is a threat to Quality Education.
(Note: I am not attempting to slander anyone. The facts of the matter bears out my claims. )
The sad part about this line of thinking is that it merely allows the misaligned way of thinking that exists among the community leaders to continue.
Imagine if, upon realizing that there was no other way forward but for the community to achieve "quality education" by getting everyone involved to buy into this end per their daily actions? This is more of a "directed outcome", expressed upon the backs of the people per their own commitment. This is problematic for the NAACP and other progressive groups. They are more interested in making indictments, in telling people what their 'social justice rights' are. With this disposition they can lean upon the system to be more accommodative. To change so that others might have their opportunities expressed.
The reason why these two articles are related is because, taken in total, they represent the consciousness of those who are most dogmatic in their front. The notion of "Black strength" in their fight all the while they transact upon "Black inferiority" cannot stand in the same place and time.
My suggestion is that the BQPFRC forgo their intolerance and attacks against those who disagree with them and instead work to align their management focus upon the people who will ultimately receive the benefit from their own salvation.
The differences in opinion between me and them boils down to the question of how one's "standard of living" is obtained. They see this as a province of a properly reordered set of societal commitments by the larger society. I see this as the fruit of a well managed community and human resources within. Confidence in government versus confidence in the people to yield themselves to a greater purpose and grow strong as a result.
2 comments:
I wonder why the standard for educational outcomes is never placed on the willingness of the child to learn. I'm wondering where the speeches are about negative media influences, and a "demand" for the most practicle doable solution from the people who directly will impact change in our own community (committment,integrity & personal responsibility)..... black progressives don't apply these standards to blacks, yet decry the situations in our schools, and demand OTHER PEOPLE HOLD OUR CHILDREN TO THE HIGHER STANDARDS
if you believe in personal responsibility, committment and integrity,.. you're labeled by liberals as a racist or uncle tom, being "against blacks".... while at the same time they're demanding institutions these higher standards to take in children to change their behavior by teaching "respect committment integrity and personal responsibility"
at some point it comes down to the learning environment (behaviour)... and what I hear from that radio interview is the representative from the NAACP asking the "enemy" to raise and discipline our children because we don't want to
Diane:
I listened to Ben Jealous of the NAACP a few weeks ago.
He was ramming about "crumbling schools" within the Black community yet was TALKING OUTWARD. With this disposition he is able to look past the truth about who is running these key institutions and how his organization helped put them there.
As long as they make the case that it is AMERICA that is dumping on Black people his organization lives yet another day. I am sure to get a donation request letter from them with this issue as the trigger.
BOTTOM LINE - for too long we have allowed people to outsource the obligation for REFORM onto the amorphous government while doing a failing job in convincing the main people who will benefit from their own change that they are the #1 people who must act.
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