The best way to analyze the antics of the "Occupiers Of Black Community Positions Of Confidence" is to start off with a model that defines their behavior and work to appraise their motivations in aggregate.
I had planned to do a more in depth analysis of the efforts of Gerri Hall of Flint Michigan to do all she can to get President Obama reelected in 2012. Instead I will tie it all together by also looking at what Professional Progressive Political Preacher Rev Jackson is doing in conjunction with Rep John Conyers in Detroit to keep the "state Republicans" from using Detroit's present fiscal crisis to "violate the Voting Rights Act", stripping the officials elected by Black people from their power in office.
I wish the last sentence as a creation of my own but instead this is the key talking point that they know will work on most people. Besides I already read that this is their strategy per my review of the various progressive mainstream press magazines from which the Black Progressives operate in common.
From the LA Times article
When it comes to the mainstream press - the paragraph above is about as far as they will go in scrutinizing the ideological/political motivations of the Black Community. One has to accept that this is akin to the various articles or statements from MSNBC's Chris Mathews or Prof Melissa Harris-Perry which charged that RACISM in White people is the reason why many have lost the faith in Obama as the economy lumbers along. By contrast Mark Barabak of the LA Times made sure that he too captured the motivations of why Blacks in the battered city of Flint Michigan could look past their own condition and continue their faith in Obama.
Like many black Americans, Hall, 60, looks at the president and sees a reflection of herself: joys and triumphs but also challenges and adversity, a good part of it, she suggests, owing to the color of his skin. "When we look at President Obama, we can relate to what he's experiencing because of the experiences in our own backgrounds," Hall says over lunch at an Irish-themed restaurant, where she stands out as one of the few black patrons.
The sentiment may explain why Obama still enjoys commanding support among African Americans, even though blacks have suffered the worst of the deep recession that soured so many others on the incumbent.
"He came from where the majority of minorities came from, from meager beginnings," says Reggie Smith, a local head of the United Auto Workers union, who laughingly recalls how he, like Obama, once drove a car with a rusted hole in the floor. "He can relate like no other president before, and that's what keeps him strong in the African American community."
Obama won 95% of the black vote in his first presidential race and will likely match that next year. The question is whether 2008's record black turnout can be repeated, or even exceeded, now that the heady days are long gone. Even Obama, speaking this fall in Los Angeles, conceded his reelection bid "will not be as sexy" as his first run.
What Mr Barabak failed to do was to tie the "Black Experiences" in Flint and other "Mission Accomplished Cities" with the Black Progressives' dreams that Obama would heal the nation for its economic difficulties. Had Mr Barabak had less intention on making these "Blacks from Flint" into sympathetic characters he would have followed the line of inquiry that most certainly would have been piqued had Southern White people dared to show such a disconnection between their local fate and their hopes for a national Republican revolution to reverse the damage that "Northern Yankee Democrats" have done to their local affairs.
The challenge that the LA Times should have posed to Ms Gerri Hall was to ask her if she had ever waged a coordinated rebuttal against the government of Flint Michigan, the entity who's public policies have destroyed the dreams of so many Black families.
In my previous analysis of the condition of Flint Michigan and the video from Camden NJ in which Black people who were interviewed blamed the "National Republicans" for blocking Obama's attempts to "save them" I failed to present the appropriate emphasis in my analysis. Their ability to levitate their consciousness out of their failed "Mission Accomplished Cities" and instead focus upon national politics was NOT merely because they are loyal "Progressive Democrats". (See Mr Cain - Black people are not "brainwashed"). The more accurate analysis is to note that these people who have won the VICTORY in their cities, per the guidance of the words of Progerssive great Bayard Rustin, now have a situation by which the failure to build up the ORGANIC COMPETENCIES within the cities in question forces them to look toward state and national politics with the hopes that the Progressive party will fill the void in the cash flow to the city using REDISTRIBUTIVE PUBLIC POLICY while the Conservatives represent a threat to this cash flow.
When we hear the oft spoken words that "Black people understand who has our best interests in mind".........this statement is said from the perspective that all positive cash flow received in the way of a check are EQUAL.
Years ago on this blog I laid out the foundational observation that: "Some people believe that being in RECEIPT OF BENEFIT is equal to one's ability to leverage their COMPETENCIES to attract compensation". The former requires the use of some sort of national contractual agreement (ie: nationalized social justice) as the driver by which their failure to develop the "organic competencies" of a constituency yet their leaders stand strong rather than being kicked out of office for failure.
The next tie in, before we get to Detroit, is to note that "The Occupation" is an audacious movement by the American left. Not in the sense of "awesome" but in the sense that "They Have Some Damned Nerve". The truth is that after a long series of decades in which they took over the reigns of power in the cities and regions under duress......(when I say "they" I am talking about the elements of the "Progressive-Joint Venture")........they have the fundamental need to FLIP THE SCRIPT to switch what should be an INDICTMENT of their efforts back into an INDICTMENT of the national and global system.
Though they "won" politically, they "lost" where it counts materially.
Again I refer back to the brilliance the late journalist George S. Schuyler who noted that there is no "Black Agenda". There is only a "Progressive Agenda" with a "lampblacked soot covering". As such - just as "The Black Racial Services Machine" convinced the Black voting masses that their investments would lead to future bounty in the 'Mission Accomplished Cities', so was the case with the various other cogs in the wheel of the partnership.
By all rights the constituency that followed their lead is justified in giving their progressive leadership a vote of no confidence. The most basic of promises that were to have been received as a payoff for their unity have been shorted.
(Key point coming up)
Instead of noting how they were played using false hopes that have been dangled in front of the masses to prod them forward and then setting up the necessary DEFENSES to ensure that their sentiments are not played with in the future - the leaders of "The Struggle" understand that they need to get out front of the masses prior to them turning and NATIONALIZE the indictment.
Just as I have documented that the "Black Community Development Consciousness" has been hijacked into politics - so too is it the case that a class-based movement seeks to drive the lumpenprolitarate - regardless of race.
The observations of the repudiation of establishment power seen by the presiding machines in the "Mission Accomplished Cities" is also an ideological rather than a race based attribute. The simple fact is that when these establishment machines took power THEY had the obligation to develop organic employment opportunities to retain the fiscal viability of the cities. The rhetoric against corporations and capitalism, while attractive to the lumpenprolitariate - failed to put sufficient food on the plates of the masses. When you add to the fact that many of these same cities had their founding roots in industry and later grew because they were job creating machines - today's insolvency despite the "Mission Accomplishment" is emblematic of the problem.
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