“We are over 50 percent unemployment among Black males in Detroit, in New York, in Atlanta,” says the Rev. Al Sharpton in an interview with Trice Edney News Wire. “People come into our offices every day asking about jobs. They don’t care about the intellectual debate. They want to know where the relief is coming from.”
Despite the disparity between the White and Black employment rates, Sharpton says those who criticize the president for avoiding speaking specifically about the glaring racial element of unemployment are giving Obama a bad rap.
“I’ve been very verbal about it,” says Sharpton. “I think a lot of the criticism has been disingenuous because a lot of them have said things about President Obama that they didn’t say about Clinton. I think Clinton; not only didn’t do a lot of things that we wanted him to do, he did things against us. I agree with some of the points, I just think some of the motives are less than genuine.”
I would love for the "Democratic Preacher" Al Sharpton to list the items that President Obama has "done against US". Then detail who is the "US" that he speaks of?
Simply put - there is no amount of Black unemployment that our community suffers that will cause the ideology and set of economic theories that Sharpton and the other Black Progressive Establishment players espouse to fall from grace in the congregation that they represent.
Their voice is loudest when they indict the nation for the erosion that has an apparent racial footprint in its severity. Few people will dare assume the EQUALITY of Black people, make note of the entrenchment of the theories that these power brokers are possessed with and question if indeed some catch all that is ascribed to RACISM has some organic origins.
Those who are best positioned to ask these questions - The Black Press - are too often ideological co-conspirators in the matter.
See here:
The Root.com - The Fundamental Reasons For The Record $1.5T Deficit
The latest figures are up from previous estimates because of bipartisan legislation passed in December that extended Bush-era tax cuts and unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provided a 2 percent payroll tax cut this year. That measure added almost $400 billion to this year's deficit, according to the CBO.
The CBO is saying what economists and activists were saying when the tax cuts for the wealthy were passed. This is what happens when people who make the most money continue to avoid paying their share of taxes: You get a deficit. If nationwide unemployment stays above 9 percent, then what does that mean for African Americans, whose unemployment numbers are significantly higher? We're not too concerned with how unemployment figures will affect Obama's 2012 election. We suppose he knew the risk he was taking when he decided to choose making wealthy Republicans happy at the expense of the economy for years to come. We're more concerned with the impact it will have on black and brown families that are already struggling
Anyone who believes that the presence of "favorable people" in power - locally, regionally and nationally - after having sustained success in the elements of "the struggle" that they have focused upon - is going to translate into OWNERSHIP and ACCOUNTABILITY - you are severely mistaken.
By congregational agreement the elements of the tentacles in the Black Establishment - in partnership with their progressive collaborative partners agree to analyze and project what the 'real problem' is that is causing these unsavory outcomes. The fact that when "the other guy" was in power in the same seat and they were directly indictment him for the very same things that they now obfuscate in support of the present occupant is lost on them.
WHAT IS THE COST OF THEIR ANTICS?
For a people that have been used as a pawn for our "labor" since we first set foot in these lands it is rather disheartening to see how exploitation of our interests around the question of labor can come from "friendly fire" as well.
Again I say that the popular narrative hear in the "Mission Accomplished Cities" is that "corporate greed" in resisting the demands from labor for "fairer" compensation and improved working conditions motivated the "consumers of labor" to seek other venues which were less resistant to their "exploitation".
There is a lot of truth to this statement.
The main flaw of the narrative, however, is that it never dares to look at the other force that was sitting at the table and appraise his negotiating position - from the stand point of WHERE THEY STAND RIGHT NOW.
The thing that has me so frustrated about the woman from Flint Michigan who framed her relationship with her employer that afforded her a solid middle class lifestyle and then "divorced" her, sending her and her city to the poor house - is that while it attempts to hold the corporation's obligation far, far beyond the signature on the bottom line of the labor contract while she and other "sellers of labor" are free to walk away from the employment agreement and the city as a whole - at will. If she decided to not show up for her 7am shift - the corporation is on the dime to find a replacement lest the entire line shuts down.
If Detroit, Milwaukee and other formerly productive cities were once timberland areas but for the energy that the former industrial engines brought to the area - attracting people and building up the economy - why is it any surprise then that these same places are returning to their natural state per their departure?
The sad truth is that the indictment of "I KNOW WHO DID THIS TO US" rings more powerful within certain elements of the Black community's consciousness than does the sober understanding that, despite this knowledge, the seat of POWER that is now held by favorable hands over the key controls over the metropolis and its people mandate leadership and a new way of thinking that can change these fortunes moving forward.
Functionally - the presence of a "favorable person" merely purchase perpetual forbearance and defense from any tomatoes thrown at his "portrait upon the wall". The main disrespect for Black people is not the eroded academic/economic/social outcomes - but the outward show of anger by such action against the portion - exposing a greater dislike for a "Black man with power" or Black people in general.
This artificial milk chocolate veil that is poured upon the core that is to be protected is not actually an attempt to protect a "Black man" in power. It is ONLY reserved for "progressive Black people" in power and thus should not be mistaken otherwise.
In as much as it is true that we have a body of evidence which shows that no amount of shortfalls in our:
- Economic
- Academics
- Public Safety
- Health Outcomes - as promoted by the permissiveness of our culture to risky lifestyles
..........are not a pretext for a challenge to the base of theories that usher these results in - I am forced to conclude that we no longer have a "Black Community Development Movement". We only have an "Ideological Protection Racket" in place.
As I am listening to analysis of Obama's "State Of The Union Speech" right now - one analyst says that the GOP is on the hook to "define a better alternative". What might be true for the nation does not hold for the conscious direction for the Black community because TODAY we are living in the "Mission Accomplished" timezone that correlate to their past promises of what our continued unity would bring. To demand that I "define a better alternative or shut up" is akin to a physician that has been handing out sugar pills to order someone who has tested his concoction and exposed his scheme to point to his large sales volume and contentment among his base of clients yet refusing to cease his pill distribution until a better pharmacological compound is brought to market.
I don't blame this PHYSICIAN for using his confidence to retain his profits. The blame most go to those desperate souls that keep INGESTING what they are handed, the stimulation of their 5 senses per the pills design overriding the signals that are rendered upon their bodies that are delivered to them by their neural network.
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