Joe Beasley - Dual "Civil Rights Pharisee" & "Fight The Power Activist" - "When Mayor Reed's Police Busted Up The Occupation.....It Was Like Selma Alabama All Over Again"

About 5 years ago metro-Atlanta was abuzz about a collaborated election campaign commercial featuring Congressman John Lewis, former Mayor Andrew Young and then City of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin.   In the context of the Fulton County Chairman elections the voice over featuring these 3 said "If the Republicans take the Fulton County Chairman Seat"..................."the Police Dogs and Fire Hoses will come out again".

Now keep in mind that the mayor of the City of Atlanta has a larger police and fire department than does the county because the increased incorporation of the county into cities has reduced the need for Fulton County resources.  Mayor Franklin would have been more likely to call out "the police dogs and fire hoses" as most of the Blacks living in Fulton County live within the City of Atlanta.  

After hearing a radio interview of Joe Beasley after the "Amistad Occupation ("We Want Free..") was busted up by Mayor Reed I now understand that their references to "Police Dogs", "Fire Houses" and "Selma"


Joe Beasley Calls For A Recall of Mayor Kasim Reed

What was the incident that triggered the "Fight The Power" alliance to call for a recall effort for the Mayor Of Atlanta who they helped to get into power in order to keep the streak of "6 Black mayors" going?

1. This is a necessary house cleaning in regards to his association with the failed Atlanta Public School System.  Though the mayor does not have direct control over the schools - he has influence and this is merely the first step in changing direction for the betterment of the majority Black school system
2. The city's precarious financial condition is a result of failed leadership over time.  We are starting at the top in order to build an Atlanta that will be more self-sufficient and prosperous
3. The mayor must go because he has stepped on the "ingrown toe nails" of the people who put him into power.   He is being influenced by Cola Cola, Atlanta Central Progress Commission (a business group) and Georgia Pacific - owned by Koch Industries and the Koch Brothers.  By removing him from power - using the same techniques used against Governor Scott Brown (R-WI) - the last elected officials who agreed with the mandates of the Koch Brothers.   We need to show who is the boss in this city.

Sadly as the student population of Georgia Tech observably is becoming more "brown" as Indian/Pakistani students flood into engineering slots.................the "Occupiers Of Black Leadership Positions" are always seeking to struggle and protest as their means of retaining "Congregational Unity".

The most accurate analysis of "Amistad Occupation ("We Want Free....")" - in Atlanta is that there were multiple forces all seeking to get something out of the movement.    For the most part the White kids main line Occupiers were driving home messages that were in line with "Occupy Wall Street".   Despite the empty rhetoric that is not connected to a mechanism that will produce change - they believe what they believe.   the second wave came from the "Black Fight The Power" forces who are "Progressives in Black Face" largely believing everything that the original Occupiers believe.   

They understand that there are different mechanisms for compelling Black people to join such a movement.  They got on the mic and cajoled Black people to "join the Occupation" or risk being "Herman Cained" - 30 years from now as they are asked "Where were you during the revolution".   They lent street cred to the Occupiers by stating that they are using the foundations of "The Civil Rights Movement" today.

In the end this was a big RACIAL LOYALTY test.    

The Black community in metro-Atlanta is large.   The group of Black Occupiers is small.   But for the intervention of the Black media operatives who actively sought to fuse the Black Progressive-Fundamentalist struggle onto the Occupation this beef with the mayor would not be at hand.

Since these operatives do not speak for the Black community.  Their goal is to erect a front as if they do.

The better measure of their value is to look beyond what they erect in the way of a following but instead we need to make a measure of our "Permanent Interests" and determine their ability to provide COMPREHENSIVE recourse to our issues.