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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 160
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 05:36 pm: | 
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Blacks not ready for prime time
by ALTON H. MADDOX JR.
Originally posted 9/21/2006
Paschal’s, a Black-owned hotel, jazz club and restaurant complex, was the headquarters for the freedom movement in the 1960’s. Anyone who was anything in the freedom movement made regular pilgrimages to Paschal’s in Atlanta. It should be a national landmark.
Soon after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there was a hotel construction explosion in Atlanta. Interestingly, the Supreme Court, in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, ruled that this statute could only be constitutional under the Commerce Clause. Blacks must pay to play.
White banks, insurance companies, architects, engineers, construction workers, electricians and plumbers were unable to build luxury hotels fast enough, in Atlanta, to accommodate Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas who had opposed the labors of human rights activists but loved their harvests.
This same scenario is now being played out in Black politics. Black voters are electing candidates to public office who have had no relationship to a political struggle. In fact, there have been few, if any, Blacks elected to public office in New York who had an association with the freedom movement.
There were persons from New York, however, who had been very active in the South like Kwame Ture (Stokeley Carmichael) but they would have been unable to, subsequently, enjoy being elected to dogcatcher in New York. Black voters elect the most reactionary Blacks to public office and, afterwards, complain that Black officials are unable to score any points in politics.
When Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore kicked off the modern freedom movement in Florida, they intended that Blacks would use the right to vote to secure political representation. The Ku Klux Klan attached dynamite to their home on Christmas Day in 1951 and put a match to the dynamite while they were asleep.
Fannie Lou Hamer and Medgar Evers, among others, followed in their footsteps. Black reactionaries had another idea, however. They would reduce political representation to political presence to accommodate white supremacy. They are now our gatekeepers.
New York City Councilman David Yassky’s divide and conquer run for Congress in the Eleventh Congressional District shows that Blacks are unable to think outside the box. His Black opponents were running for themselves and not for the race.
If Yassky had been Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, the Congressional Black Caucus would be minus one member in 2007. It was, nonetheless, a horse race with Yassky seeking to colonize Blacks in a Black majority district.
Unlike Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Black politicians only believe in taking one bite at the apple within traditional politics. All Black elected officials desire to win in the white primary. If a Black candidate is unable to win white approval, Black voters will reject the Black candidate.
The white primary system has always been used to exclude or approve and control Black candidates. It was used, by law, to exclude Blacks until 1944 when the Supreme Court outlawed it. Whites continue to develop new systems to control Black politics. Blacks need a systems analysis of politics.
The current system must be overthrown. After the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the white primary was retooled to foster plantation politics. Whites now control ballot access. Politically, Blacks must start to think outside the box.
This is why Ollie McClean has no shot at defeating New York City Councilwoman Yvette Clarke in the general election. McClean would become the first Black independent in Congress but this is also her problem. Slaves are opposed to a Harriet Tubman. Her independent bid for Congress lacks the seal of white approval. Clarke’s Democratic bid doesn’t.
Except for possibly New York City Councilman Charles Barron, all Black elected officials in New York will endorse Clarke, the winner of the white primary. If it had been Yassky, Black leaders would have enthusiastically endorsed him also. Party politics is exalted over racial politics.
Like Barron, McClean also cut her teeth in the struggle. It was a miracle that Barron won a seat on the City Council. Barron was pushing the envelope when he sought to unseat Cong. Ed. Towns, who is leading us back to tobacco plantations. Blacks, once again, voted against their interests.
The last Black activist in the City Council before Barron was Benjamin Davis. He went to prison for his political beliefs. The Democratic Party will barely tolerate a mindless Black. A Black person who shares the same political beliefs as Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez is playing Russian roulette.
McClean’s candidacy arose to stop a white takeover of the Eleventh C.D. The Clarke campaign was based in self rather than in us and she was prepared to risk a white takeover of the Eleventh C.D. As Dr. Leonard Jeffries correctly pointed out, McClean is a “sacrificial lamb.”
Since Bush v. Gore, all right-thinking Blacks have to believe in rigged elections in this country. If Yassky had won the white primary, he would have been facing Black anger in November. McClean would have been his opponent. Thus, a rigged election was in play. Clarke wins.
Attorneys C. Vernon Mason and Colin Moore unsuccessfully sought political office in New York. They were also political activists. They had the potential to offend their white colleagues. It is this mindset of protecting whites from militant Blacks that is embedded in Black culture. The only medicine for this virus is a cultural revolution.
In Iran, for example, and before Ayatollah Komeini, the United States had to put its own stooges on the throne. In the United States, Uncle Sam can sit back and watch Blacks do the dirty work. There is no need for a “War on Blacks.” Blacks are currently engaged in a civil war, with the house Negroes given an advantage over field Blacks.
This is not the case with whites. Colin Ferguson is known for the “Long Island Railroad Massacre.” He opened fire on white passengers after the train crossed the Nassau County line. The victims included Carolyn McCarthy’s husband. Her son was seriously injured.
She testified against Ferguson at his trial. Ferguson had also drafted a hit list of Uncle Toms. McCarthy used gun control to ride into Congress. Her campaign may have very well been against “Negroes with Guns.”
The incumbent in the Fourth Congressional District, Daniel Frisa, had no shot. He had voted against gun control. With the specter of Black gunmen in white suburbs, McCarthy easily defeated Frisa 57%-41%. Frisa abandoned his campaign a week before the general election.
History proves that Blacks will vote against their self-interests by not only electing reactionary public officials but also by financing their own oppression. Why should whites commit genocide when Blacks are bent on committing suicide?
Blacks have vowed to never send another Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. to Congress and, in New York, Blacks refuse to honor him on his birthday and prefer “Seventh Avenue” over “Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd.” Cong. Gus Savage later tiptoed into Congress. “He gone.”
The enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reversed Atlanta’s economic fortunes. It is no accident that the Supreme Court upheld this legislation in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States. Nearly eighty years earlier, the Supreme Court struck down similar legislation under the Fourteenth Amendment in Civil Rights Cases.
In the interim, Congress has learned that by putting dollars and ballots in Black hands, it can simply sit back and wait for Blacks to self-destruct. If we pushed hard enough, we could get forty acres and a mule with interest. In the hands of Blacks, money and ballots are weapons of self-destruction.
Slaves on the plantation had no issues and no Black agenda. Chattel slavery no longer exists in this country, except in prisons, but the slave mind is still intact. Post-traumatic slavery syndrome is the wrong diagnosis for Blacks. It will take more than the Thirteenth Amendment to end slavery.
Independent Congressional candidate Ollie McClean will join New York City Councilman Charles Barron, Al Porter, Dr. James McIntosh, Betty Dopson, Queen Afua, Akiwa Gizzel and Kermit Eady at the Lab, 1428 Harriet Tubman Avenue (Fulton Street), Brooklyn, NY on Thursday, September 21 at 7:00 p.m.
The weekly UAM Wednesday forum will occur on September 27, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Plaza, 1068 Fulton Street in Brooklyn (near Classon Ave.). Take the “C” train to Franklin Avenue. The discussion concerns trip to FCC in D.C. I will discuss “Legal History of Oppressed Groups in the United States” at York College, 94-20 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica, NY, Rm 4M05 at 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 28. For more information call 718-834-9034. See www.reinstatealtonmaddox.com
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Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 22, 2006 - 12:38 pm: |
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I hate to sound like Cynique but the Freedom Movement ended long ago and all the veterans of the Freedom movement are getting long in the tooth and the torch has to be passed to these uncle toms largely by attrition.
I mean, by his logic we should be electing only veterans of The Civil War. But we can't find any--hmmm. |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 181
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 22, 2006 - 04:11 pm: |
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Chris, you know who I sorta blame for that? ...The Freedom Movement generation themselves. Why didn't they pass the torch? Why didn't they instill the importance of the Freedom Movement in future generations? It is a shame how little most people my age know about our culture or why it's important to keep up the struggle to end our enslavement. Hell, most people my age don't even realize we're still slaves. |
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