Tavis Smiley Was Asked The Wrong Question - "Are YOU SATISFIED That The Chosen Methodology For The Development Of The Black Community Is Working Effectively?"

(Lifted from Redding News Review)

No one should be surprised - what so ever - that long time progressive-fundamentalist Tavis Smiley plans to vote for President Obama in 2012.

I stated before the dust up that Smiley had with the "Machine Black Democratic Progressives" was that he dared to hold a progressive president up to a "progressive measuring stuck".  This stick is reserved to beat conservative enemies with.

Smiley said - like Fredrick Douglas, A Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King - he is trying to motivate Obama to be a better president.“There’s no doubt about the fact that Barack Obama is the best of what’s out there,” Smiley said.

Mr Smiley, et al can't bring themselves to see that THIS AIN'T ABOUT OBAMA!!!!!

Your analysis is wrong from a Black Community perspective thus your misunderstanding of the forces that are slapping you upside the head.

• Douglas to Lincoln
• Randolph to FDR
• King to Johnson

This relationship is between the "Prevailing Voice of the Black Community" toward the POWER in the "American Political Domain", seeking relief for Black America.

• The collective voices of "The Black Racial Services Machine" to OBAMA

This represents the "Prevailing Political Voice and Consciousness Of The Black Community" TOWARD and agent in the "American Political Domain" that THE MACHINE promoted as THEIR "Dram Come True".

What you have suffered from, Mr Smiley is evidence of the COMPROMISED state of Black Community Development Institutions.

Do you recall the CBC statement "No Permanent Friends, Only Permanent Interests"?   It did not survive the test when their "Permanent Friend" got into power.

They can't bring themselves to see that the "Black or Progressive" face in power IS NOT evidence of "Mission Accomplishment" - the EFFECTIVE RESULTS for our community IS.

Since you are a fellow progressive-fundamentalist ideologue - your shared ideological goals with your most ferocious critics merely shows the folly of pursing "Ideological Goals" rather than managing the material results.

No Surprise Here Over Tavis Smiley's Planned Investment In 2012

Mr Smiley merely said that he was going to use his "Equal Black Ballot" that the government grants him in the "American Political Domain" to make another investment in the Democratic Party machine as it attempts to advance "Progressive Public Policy".  Mr Smiley is a progressive.  What dd you expect - him to make Herman Cain a "write in candidate"?

With Joe Madison interviewing him it was a foregone conclusion that Tavis Smiley was not going to be challenged to enumerate a "Return On Investment" for the Black Community after decades of harvesting "Equal Black Ballots" as our "Black Community Development Consciousness" has been fused into politics and specifically the Democratic Party.

Mr Madson is a competent policy wonk who can tell you every detail of every "Progressive Public Policy" initiative.   He has his face so planted in "the policy books" that he did not see the present fate of the city of Detroit coming.  Or at least he failed to tell the machine that dominates the city to change course lest they crash into the rocks.

In the line of thinking of "Progressive-Fundamentalist Activist" Joe Madison the histogram of "binary choices" between Democrats and Republicans is disconnected from the present condition of of Detroit. 

If Mr Madison was more transparent in his intentions he would scroll back 50 years, make note of the INVESTMENT that the Black Community has made after being asked these BINARY QUESTIONS about "Democrats and Republicans" and then make note of how:  Detroit, Chicago, Flint, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Rochester, New York, Newark, Camden, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St Louis, East St Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles and many, many other places that that have FAVORABLE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS per his activism yet the Black Community's Permanent Interests have been molested.  Our RETURN ON INVESTMENT in need of an investigation.

The truth is that Joe Madison and his "also rans" ARE NOT protecting the interests of Black people as they would have to fire themselves in the process of protecting it.

They instead are all driving a common - left-wing/progressive ideology - which PURPORTS to develop our people IF they can achieve political success but which merely is an "INTEGRATIONALIST TOOL" that functionally has us VOTING FOR OUR SALVATION.

Mr Madison who is a part of the "Press" (as is Mr Smiley) is so marinated in his own ideological certainty that there is no chance that the "The Black Press" will do an internal audit on its IDEOLOGY.  

This is why in Atlanta it takes "White Activist Attorneys" like the one that I have been featuring to GAIN JUSTICE FOR BLACK PEOPLE against the "Black Progressive Establishment Machine" that now runs the local governments where we live in our highest concentrations.

Mr Madison functionally operates as a "Protection Racket" for the status quo within the Black community.


The Black Racial Services Machine Has Failed To Develop An Alternative Channel For Tavis Smiley And Others To Invest In

After seeing the violence that is being transacted in Nigeria (I could list other nations but I'll stop there) compels me to be less than worried about the voting choice of Tavis Smiley - and 95% of other Black people in 2012.

The majority of them understand that it is highly likely that the "HOPE against Racist Attacks On Obama By Republicans" is going to deliver a "Black Community 2016" that looks errily like the 'Black Community 2012" that we were asked to envision back in 2008.

My view on this "American Election" is that the compromised state of the "Black Community Institutions" that will be further illuminated will outstrip any temporary pride and "enthusiasm" that is lit upon Black people as we are compelled to, once again, tie our "Black Community Development Consciousness" into the American election.  We will be "offended" that "racism" was the driving factor as to why other Americans did not see things the way that the super majority of the Black population has seen fit to invest in.

These same people fail to see that our own community vision suffers from hyperopia.  As we walk through our community on election day, our valuable "Equal Black Ballot" in our mind, we are made to look past:

• The Present Condition Of Our Schools
• The Ability Of The Local Economy To Provide Desired Services Within and Create Jobs
• The Condition of Public Safety where we feel Safe In Our Hopes
• The Condition Of Our Relationships and Health as regulated by the prevailing cultural norms within

This important list is CHANNELED into an expression that is popular among our people.   We are asked to remain  focus on the grand vision that our "leaders" in the Black Racial Services Machine have provided us, against the enemy that they have dangled.   Strangely enough no person towing the line is ever among "the enemy".   Even in power as an elected officials, the statistics showing failure to deliver - the towing of the progress-fundamentalist line offers a "protection racket" that no Made Man" could ever provide without a profitable skimming operation.

The Black Racial Services Machine operatives understand that the TIME LINE that is standing right in front of our faces that would otherwise cause an "investment adviser" to do some serious explaining about the investment returns does not apply to them. They can compel the congregation that our vicarious living through Obama will pay off as - in his second term his "Lame Duck Status" will allow him to be "really really progressive".  Our job is to "Stand With Obama' and take out the present leadership of the US House.   MSNBC's Al Sharpton just painted the picture of a "Republican Frankenstein" that we should look out for.

He understands that we are not going to look out for "Detroit" and make sure that we don't replicate it.

The Proof Of The Restoration Of The Black Progressive Fundamentalist Hope

The graphic to the left came after Tavis Smiley visited "The Bev Smith Show" as a guest.

Though Bev Smith lead the charge against Smiley-West as they ran their "Poverty Bus Tour".........."Against Obama" (in the view of the JingOists) these two were able to pretend that the events a few months prior did not happen.

Likewise, a few months prior to this visit "The New Black Panthers" leader Mail Zulu Shabazz who was heard on YouTube calling President Obama a "Ninja" was able to do a guest visit on the Bev Smith Show - with neither bothering to mention this incident.   I can only imagine of Rush Limbaugh appeared on any of these "Black Wing Radio" shows.

The point of this reference is that we should not look at the intermediate dust ups between "Democrats who are Black".  The best political documentary series - "Brick City" (focused on Newark) shows us that despite the bloody battles that "Black Progressive Clique A" has against "Black Progressive Clique B" - as they rise above the context of their intramural battle they all come TOGETHER and stand united for Progressive-Fundamentalism in the domain of "Nationalized Social Justice".

Ironically Their "Home Court" Is Their Weakest Reference

The "home court" of the Black Community is the "crown jewel" that the various operatives claim to have as their primary interest in developing.

The challenge of the disciplined analyst if their veracity is to look past their passion (and in some cases your own agreement with them) and instead retain disciplined focus on the RESULTS.

As they would have it - they would prefer to be judged based upon their "Rituals".   The spirited protests against those who have "insulted" the Black community.  The larger the protest crowd that they rally together, the more that they show they care about the Black community.

Their ability to keep 'the congregation" together should not be mistaken for effectiveness at advancing the fundamental interests of the Black community.  Instead it functions as a protection racket for failure.

Their possession of "Nationalized Social Justice" compels them to believe that the failings (and racism) of the system that envelops them is reason for the present condition of the Black community which they hold a domineering control over - per their control over the "Black Community Development Consciousness".  This creates the counter-management situation where the more power they assume over the key "Human Resource Development" institutions of Black America - the more they can convince "the congregation" to agree that THEY, who are now in power, are not the reason for the situation that has not changed, there is a need to "Struggle More" - as they seek to take the flag at the top rung of the mountain.

Simply put "Establishment Power Repudiation" under the common progressive-fundamentalist cohesive relationship allows them to all agree that "those other bastards - who are racist are the reason for our problems".

In  my assessment Tavis Smiley got "bit" by the creature that he remains a part of.
In its intolerance it actually does not support "diversity" or "free speech" where other perspectives are accepted IN THE CONTEXT OF THEM BELIEVING THAT THEIR PRESENT CONTROL OVER THE "COMMANDING HEIGHTS OF BLACK AMERICA" needs to be transparently inspected - just as they seek to inspect the national government.

The emphasis above is due to the critical tie in of the point.
Since they DON'T believe that their antics are an equal or superior force that bears down upon Black America, shaping the consciousness of our people upon reaching adulthood.

Since the "siege mentality" proves to be a more effective unifying strategy - the "Permanent Struggle" is now the meme of their "Black Community Development Motion".

It just so happens that for the first time "The President of the United States" IS an intractable part of the team.

Tavis Smiley is not given to understand that his "vote for Obama" is  merely an investment in the "American Political Machine".   Our problem as a community is a failed, neglected and under-developed "Black Community Cultural Consciousness and Competency Development Domain" channel for development and uplift.

I can provide you the statistics surrounding the "Mission Accomplished Cities/ Zones" where Progressive-Fundamentalism is the monopoly institutional power but the Black vital statistics have degraded below the point where the machine's credibility can go unchecked as a force for "uplift" of our people.   Again their main competency is in suborning "congregational unity" among Black people who are in a "Struggle Motion", not in producing "Organic Competencies" among our people.  This is why "Nationalized Social Justice" is the key organizing agreement among them.

If Mr Smiley was able to put his "Hard Left" ideology to the side for a minute and take a more long term, insightful vision of the future fate of Black America he would see that the winds are gathering for a fatal situation for the $15 trillion dollar debt-ladened America AND that the "Black American" is no more able to assist other "diasporatic Blacks" around the world any more than we are able to help ourselves in America.

The present 'Stretch Goals" that are used to vie for more "Progressive Politicians" to drive "Progressive Public Policy" needs to be channeled into more serious efforts to link together "diasporatic Blacks" for long term strategic advantage.  This "hope' must be bound by serious commercial, contractual and diplomatic relationships as we move from "mere talk" to "OPERATIONALIZING" these exchanges.

"HOPE" should be the SMALL LEAP OF FAITH that remains after disciplined and pragmatic means of development has engineered and built a bridge that spans 99% of the gap.   That "1%" is merely a small step forward rather than a 'leap of death'.


This is a t-shirt for sale by a Korean vendor at a flea market in suburban Atlanta

This WAS a Black owned restaurant in that same flea market in suburban Atlanta

While the Koreans, Africans, Caribbeans  and Indians have thriving businesses within the flea market - few people see the irony that the Black American CONSUMER base that flows through this facility have access to "Obama" t-shirts but could not manage to keep the one "Black American owned" entity in the place open per their commercial support.