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The Atlanta Police perform mass arrests at the November 5th Occupy Atlanta march which violated the city's 11pm park closure policy.
The Education Of The Young Mayor Of Atlanta
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By all intents and purposes Mayor Kasim Reed of Atlanta was an "inside player" - promoted by the Atlanta Black Establishment from the Georgia State Legislature into the mayors office.
The Black Establishment in the context of Atlanta is:
- The Civil Rights Pharisees that use their gravitas earned from "The Movement" to influence politics, business and formal social order within Atlanta
- The Fight The Power Blacks - the forces of "Black Outrage" and "Moral Indignation" that are the primary arm that can whip up Black people in response to some "threat".
- The Black Media operations via radio, television newspaper channels. All of whom have ventured on to the Internet to leverage their traditional channels
- The Black Elected Officials in various City/County/State/Federal positions and who seek to maintain a community "public policy front"
- The Black Business Elite - who's organizations seek to place "favorable people into power" for the purposes of minority contracting
- The Black Academic Body - from the local colleges. Their influence spans the adult world and the student body
- The Black Entertainment Set - the concentration of entertainers that interact with all of the above
Going into "The Occupation" Mayor Reed had a difficult balance to maintain.
He had to prove that he was "down with the struggle".
As a person who participated in a civil protest at Howard University (to kick Republican operative Lee Attwater off of the Howard Board because of his use of 'Willie Horton images) was bathed in the movement. It was important that as mayor show the necessary sympathies of a youthful movement that occurred on his watch.
Using this line of thinking, in my opinion, Mayor Reed figured that he would earn some credibility with "The Occupation" if we used his executive powers to NOT enforce the law against "Urban Camping" in Wooddruff Park. The law that was created to remove the nuisance of the (95% Black) homeless population from their permanent encampment in the downtown park was temporarily suspended by an executive decree from the mayor.
If Mayor Reed started out as a "stickler for the law" from day one this would have been a PR loss for him. As a result several Occupiers noted an initial affinity for the mayor as they connected his college experience to their present fight. (Both of their fights had common left-wing foundations so the bridge was not too hard to build).
With "The Occupation" intent on pushing their issue beyond the location of their tents and their targeted marches outside of the bank buildings - it was inevitable that a conflict with the city administration would become the prevailing clash.
The main issue that will be far more important to the Black community of Atlanta and the administration of Mayor Reeds is the question of the enforcement of THE LAW. Even though the Occupation forces are digging up rhetoric from the 1964s that say "An Unjust Law Should Be Violated" the corrupt operatives in the local "Black Wing Talk Radio" are not inclined to use their wisdom to refute the notion that a law that bans park attendance beyond 11pm is NOT the same as laws that banned Black people from sitting at lunch counters, ride in the back of buses and practice systematic racism as evidenced by the lack of Blacks in the corporate towers in downtown Atlanta.
The shameful part of the "Civil Rights Pharisees" and the "Black Power Activists" is that they are NOT going to tell their underlings that these indictments are no longer credible and there is a Black man who is now charged with enforcing the law. Instead THEY are calling for a recall vote against the mayor and are desperately seeking to hijack the "motion" of the Occupiers into using the credibility of the Civil Rights Movement as a means of pushing their common Progressive-Fundamentalist, Quasi-Socialist movement forward.
One can get a hint about the character and the credibility of those who carry the torch of "The Civil Rights Movement" by noticing that they have avoided attacking the "favorable people in power" for failing to deliver the ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS through which our people were to prosper.
Few people bother to ask the question "WHY?".
The reason why they can't attack the forces that are arrayed in power for a long time in the past and they won't attack the Obama Administration who is presently in power (instead lifting up his $447 Billion jobs bill) is because they would have to go against their IDEOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALISM to do so.
These leftist establishment forces did not plan to shift from the labor representatives and voice of the lumpen proletariat. As they took over areas such as Atlanta in the government, social, and cultural domains it is the economic domain that they can continue to make their indictments against American capitalism.
The "Fight The Power Forces" - as I mentioned about the one time Black Chicago mayoral candidate have mostly focused on "Minority Contracting Opportunities" - primarily with the government and school system but also with the "corporate contracting diversity" arena. I do not recall the candidate of Chicago who washed out (maybe it was Rev Meeks). He talked about Blacks getting a bigger share of the $1B government contracts. What he failed to observe is that Chicago's entire economy is $54B (as I recall).
The summary indictment against these forces is that they are so marginal in their "struggle" over time that after they achieve the point of "Mission Accomplishment" they show over and over again - that they are not able to fill up the entire "enclosure of a political domain" because their compressed gas only fills up "the left side of the balloon".
If we look at the rhetoric from the Occupation - multi-millionaires from movies, music, fashion and sports are able pass through the parks around the nation, raise their fist and proclaim their solidarity with these, the left wing elements of the 99%. These multi-millionaires are able to practice their own version of "Establishment Authority Repudiation". While many of them receive more compensation per year than do the dastardly CEOs or executive suite that are under attack by the Occupiers - they don't hold any such official capacity which might exploit people. After all - all of the money they received came from discretionary ticket sales, iTunes downloads and NetFlix subscriptions.
The lumpen proletariat has no intention of holding the forces that they have invested their votes in for a better life accountable for having failed to do so. Instead they are more inclined to see that THE ENEMY IS STILL BREATHING and thus these positions with "favorable people" in power are used as toeholds that allow their movement to scale further up the mountain, achieving the day when the Progressive Mission Accomplished Victory will be won.
The challenge is to keep all of The Least Of These who struggle along the way to keep focused on the external battle that is ahead of them.
Mayor Reed will recover from all of this. He only needs to get back on track, lobbying Washington DC for more funding on behalf of Atlanta. As we get closer to the 2012 election Mayor Reed will make the case that the hostile elements of the congress are starving Atlanta of much-needed funds and that there is a need for Democrats to unite to ensure that the city's interests are not starved out. Putting "favorable people" into power in Washington DC will be the best way to help Atlanta.
As long as the local progressive on the street buys into this alignment through the community, the city, the county, the state, and the federal government - they will be more inclined to struggle for the team via the IDEOLOGICAL preferences that they have instead of ever questioning if its "victories" are actually THEIR "victories" or signs of their status as pawns.
The main issue that will be far more important to the Black community of Atlanta and the administration of Mayor Reeds is the question of the enforcement of THE LAW. Even though the Occupation forces are digging up rhetoric from the 1964s that say "An Unjust Law Should Be Violated" the corrupt operatives in the local "Black Wing Talk Radio" are not inclined to use their wisdom to refute the notion that a law that bans park attendance beyond 11pm is NOT the same as laws that banned Black people from sitting at lunch counters, ride in the back of buses and practice systematic racism as evidenced by the lack of Blacks in the corporate towers in downtown Atlanta.
The shameful part of the "Civil Rights Pharisees" and the "Black Power Activists" is that they are NOT going to tell their underlings that these indictments are no longer credible and there is a Black man who is now charged with enforcing the law. Instead THEY are calling for a recall vote against the mayor and are desperately seeking to hijack the "motion" of the Occupiers into using the credibility of the Civil Rights Movement as a means of pushing their common Progressive-Fundamentalist, Quasi-Socialist movement forward.
One can get a hint about the character and the credibility of those who carry the torch of "The Civil Rights Movement" by noticing that they have avoided attacking the "favorable people in power" for failing to deliver the ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS through which our people were to prosper.
Few people bother to ask the question "WHY?".
The reason why they can't attack the forces that are arrayed in power for a long time in the past and they won't attack the Obama Administration who is presently in power (instead lifting up his $447 Billion jobs bill) is because they would have to go against their IDEOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALISM to do so.
These leftist establishment forces did not plan to shift from the labor representatives and voice of the lumpen proletariat. As they took over areas such as Atlanta in the government, social, and cultural domains it is the economic domain that they can continue to make their indictments against American capitalism.
The "Fight The Power Forces" - as I mentioned about the one time Black Chicago mayoral candidate have mostly focused on "Minority Contracting Opportunities" - primarily with the government and school system but also with the "corporate contracting diversity" arena. I do not recall the candidate of Chicago who washed out (maybe it was Rev Meeks). He talked about Blacks getting a bigger share of the $1B government contracts. What he failed to observe is that Chicago's entire economy is $54B (as I recall).
The summary indictment against these forces is that they are so marginal in their "struggle" over time that after they achieve the point of "Mission Accomplishment" they show over and over again - that they are not able to fill up the entire "enclosure of a political domain" because their compressed gas only fills up "the left side of the balloon".
If we look at the rhetoric from the Occupation - multi-millionaires from movies, music, fashion and sports are able pass through the parks around the nation, raise their fist and proclaim their solidarity with these, the left wing elements of the 99%. These multi-millionaires are able to practice their own version of "Establishment Authority Repudiation". While many of them receive more compensation per year than do the dastardly CEOs or executive suite that are under attack by the Occupiers - they don't hold any such official capacity which might exploit people. After all - all of the money they received came from discretionary ticket sales, iTunes downloads and NetFlix subscriptions.
The lumpen proletariat has no intention of holding the forces that they have invested their votes in for a better life accountable for having failed to do so. Instead they are more inclined to see that THE ENEMY IS STILL BREATHING and thus these positions with "favorable people" in power are used as toeholds that allow their movement to scale further up the mountain, achieving the day when the Progressive Mission Accomplished Victory will be won.
The challenge is to keep all of The Least Of These who struggle along the way to keep focused on the external battle that is ahead of them.
Mayor Reed will recover from all of this. He only needs to get back on track, lobbying Washington DC for more funding on behalf of Atlanta. As we get closer to the 2012 election Mayor Reed will make the case that the hostile elements of the congress are starving Atlanta of much-needed funds and that there is a need for Democrats to unite to ensure that the city's interests are not starved out. Putting "favorable people" into power in Washington DC will be the best way to help Atlanta.
As long as the local progressive on the street buys into this alignment through the community, the city, the county, the state, and the federal government - they will be more inclined to struggle for the team via the IDEOLOGICAL preferences that they have instead of ever questioning if its "victories" are actually THEIR "victories" or signs of their status as pawns.
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