See Ron Daniel's Column To Understand How We Are Asked To Watch Politics Instead Of Our Permanent Interests

Ron Daniels: Will Blacks Work Against Their Best Interests In The Chicago Mayor's Race?

If you read Ron Daniel's column assessing the Chicago's mayor's race you can see evidence of what I have been noting in my analysis of the Black Establishment Overlay. Their interest is in having us focused upon the political machine and the political architecture before them that the machine must take over as a gateway to our community obtaining our "permanent interests".

Couple this with the power of the carrot on a string that is dangled in front of the Black collective and we can be sure that more people will be motivated to stay unified in the hopes for the glory of more power in the FUTURE than there will be enough of a sober group of them to play back the archive of opinion column syndicated by the NNPA and video tape of various "Black Agenda Planning" conferences from years past to note the promises made just prior to us entering into intervals of time from years past.

The summary statement is that the Black Establishment Overlay has the job of keeping our people unified and on message. Black people must vote, must show outrage against our ideological enemies and indomitable loyalty & defense of our friends lest our enemies get an upper hand from our discombobulation.

The entire scheme is based upon them exploiting our racial loyalties.  The pride of seeing "another favorable portrait upon the wall" is enough to have many Black people in Chicago to:

• Note the failing schools in Chicago where 87% Black and Hispanic students have a 51.9% graduation rate and grasp at the carrot that is dangled upon the by Daniels
• Recall the streaming news reports about murder and violence on their streets and assign the confidence that Daniels and other operatives who they trust that they have a plan to keep the Black community safe
• The present economic malaise on the Southside will no doubt be cured with a favorable person in power who will fight for the people and against the corporate forces that are denying them the prosperity that is present in other areas. 

We don't have management of the promises that got these politicians into power over the institutions that they now control.  Instead we have a network of embedded operatives within our racial consciousness blood stream who are manipulating our racial loyalties.  They realize that it is not possible to have a "community meeting" in which those who gather discuss the need to develop a TRANSPARENT OVERLAY which manages the Black Establishment and its political arm so that our community's interests are in fact advanced.  The problem is that a BLACK ESTABLISHMENT MEMBER is the one calling the meetings together and they are not going to IMPOSE REGULATION upon themselves any more than a Wall Street brokerage firm proposes to do upon their own actions.   Self-preservation 101 indeed.

Many of you look to the unity and popularity of a given set of practices within the Black community and mistake this agreed upon perspective for EFFECTIVENESS.  Even upon their failure they are able to obfuscate the results upon the efforts of their enemies or the lingering racism of this system.  This sets the stage for more commitment to unity and a movement to "try harder".

Ron Daniel's article

Not since Eugene Sawyer succeeded the late Harold Washington has there been an African American Mayor of Chicago. The announcement by Mayor Richard M. Daly that he will not seek re-election after two decades in office would seem to open the doors for a well-positioned Black candidate to recapture the keys to City Hall. Though Rahm Emanuel, former Chief-of -Staff for President Obama, is seen as the front-runner, it would appear that an African American led progressive coalition, as the one that was forged to elect Harold Washington could be successful.

The problem is that since the death of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first African American mayor, the Black community has been plagued by the “Willie Lynch Syndrome.” It is a culture of distrust, disunity, egoism and personal ambition internal to the Black community [legend has it that Willie Lynch was an Englishman brought in by colonial slave masters in Virginia to instruct them on how to control enslaved Africans]. The election of Harold Washington represented one of the finest hours in the history of Black politics in America, largely because a process was devised to inoculate the community from the Willie Lynch Syndrome. A broad-based coalition of grassroots organizations, churches, civic groups, business and professional organizations and leaders came together to urge a reluctant Harold Washington to be the “people’s” candidate for Mayor. This meant challenging the vaulted political machine assembled by the “Boss,” Richard J. Daley -- which included a subservient sub-machine with Black “under bosses” in the Black community. For decades any serious challenge to the Daly machine was thwarted by, you guessed it, Willie Lynch Syndrome – internal disunity, divide and conquer tactics and co-optation strategies employed by “Boss Man” Daley.