I just searched this blog's archive for the picture that would make my case.
About 8 years ago the "Boy Scouts Of America", Metro-Atlanta organization was in hot water.
For years they had been inflating the number of Black male Boy Scouts participating in their organization in order to craft an image which showed that they were more involved within poor, Black areas of Atlanta than they actually were.
The usual suspects were outraged.
'They don't care about BLACK PEOPLE!!!. They want to USE US to bolster their image instead of HELPING our young Black males achieve a greater sense of manhood. We are going to make the Boy Scouts Of America PAY for USING BLACK PEOPLE!!!".
The picture that I was looking for was that of a young Black male with one of the extra long "White Tees" that were in fashion at that time. He was being interviewed by a local reporter in the context of a poor area of Atlanta with limited access to community centers and he lumped his grievances upon ......................the BOY SCOUTS!
Of course, most Boy Scout troops are nurtured through a local church entity. At that time no one thought to ask - "Where is the Black church in their community intervention, using the tried and true system that the Boy Scouts of America?"
When Joe Beasley came on "Black Wing Grievance & Political Opportunism Talk Radio" I called into the show. I asked him: "Mr Beasley - We can all agree that the local leadership of the Boy Scouts did wrong by inflating the Black participation numbers. HAVE YOU REACHED OUT TO THE BOY SCOUTS AND TOLD THEM THAT THE BEST WAY TO COME CLEAN IS TO ACTUALLY ACHIEVE THIS PARTICIPATION RATE FOR BLACK MALES IN TROUBLED AREAS OF ATLANTA?"
You have to understand. The agenda of the "Community Activists" against the Boy Scouts had NOTHING to do with the Development Of Young Black Males in Metro-Atlanta.
The Boy Scouts are seen as a quasi-militaristic, right-wing evangelical organization. In my opinion - In the mind of the Civil Rights Pharisees: the process of packing more Black males into the Boy Scouts would be akin to allowing a "Republican Youth Council" to set up shop in Southwest Atlanta.
Joe Beasley understood that none of the voices in his troop of Civil Rights 'Permanent Strugglers' were going to go beyond the TRANSACTION of "See, Once Again They Use Black People To Inflate Their Numbers" - and instead note the larger picture about the crisis with Black males.
By the way - the response that Mr Beasley gave referred to some alternative group for Black young people that he is affiliated with. If the Boy Scouts are guilty of inflating their numbers then the various 'Self-Chummed Award Winning' community interventions done by the "Black Racial Services Machine" are guilty of inflating their importance in the systematic redress of the problems with the young people in the community who are disengaged from a "rites of passage" program that would channel them into more productive outcomes.
If only "The Black Racial Services Machine's" response were measured as they do FEMA.
Use Case - The Progressive Base Hit. Use To Give The Simulation Of Progress While Evading The Big Picture Of Cultural Entrophy
The Miami Herald - Leonard Pitts:
Boy Scouts' Decision Show That Gay Rights Are The Future
Both of the models above essentially argue the very same thing.
When it comes to the "Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive-Fundamentalist Racism-Chaser" they only need to "STAY WITHIN THE BOX" and amplify their support for "Social Justice For The Oppressed" - and few people will bother to note their present ESTABLISHMENT INFLUENCE over the larger societal space.
In fact they ideological bigotry and marginal focus make them INCOMPETENT at producing a holistic societal order that achieve the 'social justice' FOR THE PEOPLE, THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS that those who answer when called "The Least Of These" now have direct influence over.
While Mr Pitts has placed himself "On The Right Side Of History", once again, when it comes to "Gay Rights" - as he takes a stand against a "bigoted right-wing organization" who has the audacity to believe that the intrinsic complementary genitalia of man and women offers some insight about their natural pairing that the "Lost Human Instruction Manual Published By God" may have more explicitly enumerated.
In his "bigot chasing" - Mr Pitts has no choice but to narrow-cast on the issue of advocacy for "Gay Rights".
Now the typically rebuttal (which I always play through my head) is one of TOP LEVEL INCLUSION:
"What about the Boy Scouts acceding to changes in societal tolerance is mutually exclusive from their broader mission of developing young boys into MEN?"
The answer is - Since the Boy Scouts has a long and glorious history of achieving this desired end - BUT the "Progressive Fundamentalist" only is competent at compelling INSTITUTIONS to change their ways - the onus must be shifted to Mr Pitts and others who have this body of thought to PROVE that THEY ARE COMPETENT at fielding a society that actually achieves the desired ends: DEVELOPED HUMAN BEING - who are the "UN-Least Of These".
The test is simple.
Mr Pitts appears to live in the Washington DC area and has "The Miami Herald" as his primary employer.
Both Washington DC and Miami have large collections of young Black males that are encamped within urban ecosystems that don't contain forces that guide them down productive paths.
I have little doubt that Mr Pitts would have signed the "Celebrities Against Mass Incarceration" letter that Dr Boyce Watkins published recently - this is yet another example of "Justice Thurgood Marshall Justice Scheme" - PUT THE SYSTEM ON TRIAL while the CRIMINAL DEFENDANT is deemed to be the VICTIM. Those who signed their name can attest to the fact that they are fully committed to removing all of the barriers that stand in the way of young Black males, railroading them into the "Prison Industrial Complex" so that the Koch Brother's stock options in corporate prisons can see increase.
Once we step out of the rut of tired ole Progressive-Fundamentalist talking points and see the pattern of abdication at the hands of the gifted "historians" who are good at framing narratives and gaining POWER, despite their culpability in the situation and/or their failure to deliver upon past promises - the entire body of though that is so damaging to the development of the Black community comes under indictment.
You will NEVER see this cluster of though accept their ESTABLISHMENT AUTHORITY that they presently have in the problem plagued communities that they advocate for. Despite the fact that the sitting sheriff(jailer) and police chief received their commission from their previous "Voter Action" / "Struggle Motion" - when their latest history lesson tells of the "Conspiracy Against Black Boys" - few in their congregation of readers both to disassemble their narrative about "This Nation's History" as they note that TO-DAMNED-DAY in the largest cities where Black people live - BLACK PEOPLE VOTED FOR the "Criminal Justice System" operators that the activists say are out to destroy Black people.
Both they and Leonard Pitts are too ideologically bigoted to scale beyond the transactionalism of their activist roots and do a self-assessment of THEIR ROLE in the Dystopian results.
They leverage the "assumed Black inferiority" and "victim state" to advance their Progressive-Fundamentalist agenda, while exercising the "Establishment Power Repudiation".
This can't continue this
engineered lie of denial of culpability any longer.
For the sake of acknowledging the ESTABLISHMENT POWER that you have and how your choices impact "The Least Of These" - at least acknowledge:
WE HAVE A BLACK PRESIDENT NOW.....................These Things Can't Continue To Happen As If This Was 1953!!!!!"
