Congratulations to Chicago Mayor Elect Rahm Emanuel.
You have a tough job ahead of you as your city struggles with major issues such as city finances, high taxes, a low performing public education system and crime that often makes national headlines. I personally can't see why you wanted the job.
This Post Ain't About Rahm Emanuel Thought
Another election in a "Mission Accomplished City" and yet again we see a lot of blatant racial politics that have been transacted.
Again - I am not faulting political operatives for doing what they are going to do to win. This is what they do when they know that they are not going to be pushed back upon.
The question is: Who's Job Is It To Do The "Pushing Back?".
Of course - THE MEDIA is the answer.
Why is it that there are no national press stories which compare the blatant racial politicking that is seen in cities like Chicago, Newark, Philadelphia and Washington DC to the stories that lead to national condemnation in the New York Times, LA Times and Washington Post when this phenomenon shows up in Mississippi or Alabama?
We are not treated to nice graphs from the New York Times or Huffington Post showing "racial voting" where the voting patterns among NON-WHITES are used as an indictment - indicating racial bias.
Where are the points of analysis which ultimately asks: Are equal expectations for transparency placed upon the non-White voter as are expected upon the White voter?
Oh - I can hear one of my frequent debate adversaries already queuing up to accuse me of "defending my White Conservative Massas".
The truth is that our "slave past" cannot be used as a forbearance which allows us to receive a pass per our "inferiority". Our injury from our "damaged state".
Clearly this question is not about "White people". It is about "Black people".
After years of having "embedded confidence men" tapping into our grievances and using their knowledge of our sensibilities to fulfill their contractual obligations with the joint-venture partnership that they have consummated - we have a condition within the Black community which shows "While THEY have won" - "Our community has LOST".
I use this occasion to show the folly of "Black Republicanism". When a monopoly Democratic city like Chicago registering so many grievances for Black people in the areas of:
- Quality Education
- Safe Streets
- Thriving Local Economies
The embedded operatives sell the masses on the notion of the "Continuing Struggle". Regardless of the results that the machine has laid down for them in the past interval of time the narrative for the next election is:
- The enemy prevented "us" from achieving the success that we desired
- The enemy is planning to come back even stronger in the next session
- I need you to vote for me so that I can fight against the enemy and for your interests in this next session
- Do you want the enemy to win by asking questions about my effectiveness?
It comes as no surprise that the main advocates who call out Mississippi and Alabama also have a strong dislike of the outcomes produced in these states when such racial electioneering is allowed to go unchecked. At stands to reason that they are also motivated to remain silent about the blatant injection of race when it comes to Black Democratic strongholds. (Again - watch "Brick City").
In the short term the media operatives are appeased because this system produces a "Democrat" into office. Even if this machine candidate is unfavorable locally - there is contentment that once we scale beyond the local battle that each of the combatants will be supporters of the state and national slate of Democratic politicians. It strikes me now two local cliques that can't stand to be in the same room together can both claim to be the "Obama candidate".
Since it is clear that the present system is not producing for the Black community and there is clear evidence that "Black who can" are moving out of the "Mission Accomplished Districts" in pursuit of the permanent interests for their families - the question must be asked "What is the force that is retaining this system?"
Of course it is the "Civil Rights Industrial Complex" which works to ensure that "Black (Progressive) representation" is retained. Their main flaw is to assume that a "Black face in the place" translates into fair representation for our people.
I assure you that if given the chance 85% of Black people would rather have two Ruth Bader Ginsbergs on the US Supreme Court instead of two Clarence Thomas'. While they accept the notion that "Your skin folks ain't always your kin folk" when it comes to the Black conservative Clarence Thomas - they are loathed to put "Progressivism" on trial to see how it stands up to the same scrutiny.
The reason why this present system endures as it does, despite our grievances, is because ultimately it is Black people who perpetuate it as evidenced by the lack of rebuke against the "embedded operatives" who allow it to continue.
While they push for integration into the American system - and call out areas where we receive "push back" they are never going to voluntarily give up the "racial spoils system" that provides them with both "racially gerrymandered districts" and a box on the flowchart that is posted on the newspaper editor's wall which tells them to scrub all stories that dares treat "Black racial politicking" as equally contemptible as when a Southern White conservative does the same. By running with such "editorial bias" (which is in truth transparency) the newspaper risks being labeled as "undercutting Black voting power".
Unfortunately the biggest blow to "Black voting power" is not that "Red States" will pick up new Congressional seats - it is that the politicking within the areas that are in a condition of atrophy per their loss of population are allowed to go unchecked.
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