If Jesse Jackson Believes That "The Food Stamp President" Is A Good Title Why Didn't He Defend Newt Gingrich Against Those Who Said He Was Racist For Saying It?

Lifted from Booker Rising and the Kenneth Durden blog

RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was the initial response from the JingOists as Republican Newt Gingrich made the indictment against President Obama that he was a "Food Stamp President".

Just as "Crack Is A Black Drug" - they believe that "Food Stamps" are an underhanded reference to Black people.

Then the standard process takes place:

1. Express racial offense against the political charge by an adversary against a protected elected official.  
2. Remind the progressive base why "WE" (Black folks) do not vote for those who hate "US" (Black folks)
3. Go to the data, reporting that:
• More White people are on welfare
• More White women benefit from Affirmative Action
• More White people use Crack
• More White people use drugs but more Blacks are arrested
4. A state of pacification is achieved among the Black Progressive base - without them realizing that while "The White Conservative Enemy" has been punished for speaking.................no real SOLUTION for Black America has been achieved.
5. The ONLY benefit that has been achieve via this transaction is that the Black Consciousness has been fused as an Opposition To White Right-Wing Consciousness, but still unable to stand on its own

Appraising Jesse Jackson's Food Stamp Social Justice Outside Of The Context Of America

In a sober analysis - PPPP Rev Jesse Jackson's arguments make sense for the Progressive-Fundamentalist.   

After the first phase of their response model in which "RACISM(!!!!)" was charged against the enemy who made the claim, PPPP Rev Jackson comes back and reconciles the progressive view of food stamps with the discussion at hand.  He shifts the defensive response into an affirmation.

There is no doubt that food stamps and the "Social Justice" overlay is an attempt by America to express its "social contract".  The belief that no "equal human being" within America should be allowed to fall below a certain line in his standard of living.

I believe that there is a difference between the broad agreement among the majority of Americans that there should be some form of a social safety net versus the rhetorical cajoling that takes place in order to shame people into wanting a more productive life.  The main difference between left and right is the starting point and the comprehensiveness of this safety net.   

For me - I judge the effectiveness of a "Social Justice Program" not just by how many people that it has been able to keep from starvation for another day.  With this in mind success is seen in those with the "longest soup line".   

Instead we must view effectiveness as a measure of the transformative capabilities of such programs.  How many people who receive these benefits as expressed from the greater society, are able to stand on their own in 5, 10, 25 years?   Did they use this down time to develop skills that they can leverage for their benefit in the future?   OR did they buy into the "right-ification" of their condition and subsequent social justice claims?

Jesse Jackson failed to place the "Equal Human Being" at the front and center.   That same farmer and truck driver who receives payment because of a food stamp has enabled a penned up demand for food to be transacted - also gets paid when a "pay check" is presented at the retail counter.    We must confine our focus to the effects upon the consumer and the long term viability of the scheme.   That which was set up as temporary assistance cannot be allowed to become a lifestyle.  

I still have the recording of PPPP Jesse Jackson who came to Atlanta to protest the razing of the Bowen Homes in Northwest Atlanta.   After a 3 year warning that the large housing project would be razed, and job training and relocation assistance was provided - many of the tenants that remained said "we were not given enough time".   Jackson spent the night in one of the units and bragged about the homemade biscuits that the  host had made for him as he woke up in the morning.  This was his version of "walking in another man's shoes".  

Unfortunately this all masked the truth.   Everyone living in Atlanta for an extended period of time would agree that Bowen Homes was an address that appeared frequently on the police crime reports.  It was a "Killing Field for Black bodies and Black dreams".

Despite all of the "Black women crying on the evening news after suffering a loss", many of them vowing to move away from this violent community - when it came down to destroying the ecosystem and starting over - many of these same people resisted someone tearing down "their home".

In truth they were fearful of going out into the real world.  A world were rents were not artificially kept low.   The goal of the Atlanta Housing Authority was to "never again allow a high concentration of this CONSCIOUSNESS to aggregate into one area".   

Ironically, when we look at the NAACP primary "Black education theory" for the Carolians they have spun this same theme as they argue "all schools must SHARE THE POVERTY".  This allows them to save face as they tacitly admit that a certain CONSCIOUSNESS, when allowed to predominate a space has corrosive rather than progressive results.

The Black Progressive-Fundamentalist is unwilling to dive too deeply in considering the forces that create and perpetuate this consciousness.    

By pushing a "Social Justice' theory they hope to effectively place the indictment for the plight of "The Least Of These" upon an "UNJUST" society.   The issue is not about lack of skills, dysfunctional cultures or "progressivism as an inorganic theory" to them.  The capitalistic system and its misallocation of resources is the triggering event.

Ironically PPPP Rev Jesse Jackson works to CAPITALIZE the benefit of food stamps by noting how many other elements in the supply chain benefit from that one drop of water added to the top of the mountain, that later appears as spring water as it gets filtered through the system.

I challenge PPPP Rev Jackson to take his theory to another Black Diasporic land and try to graft it upon their present system.  Absent a larger capitalistic benefactor within the nation - would this social justice program work?