African Americans still have NO political power.

[IMHOTEP]

DREAD SCOTT

 

There will be no attempt here to go into detailed analysis to demonstrate why neither capitalism (USA) communism western Democracy or other should be accepted as a whole by the African people. Draw on any beneficial element in each? YES!! Accept either one as our TOTAL system? NO

Those who have been so brainwashed into ideological blindness that they cannot see that the actual political economical and social structures of capitalism aka western Democracy and communism are substantially the same with the same upper ruling classes, same elite classes and the same controlled and exploited masses. Those unable to see this operating over the world before their very eyes will of course be unable to see what is presented here.

　

The drive to increase the black vote should go on. The election of Blacks to office should be accelerated. Still the central question will demand answers sooner than later.

 

 

 

What kind of persons are we electing?

 

After the politicians are elected to the various offices, who besides themselves, actually benefit from all the campaigning and voting?

 

Are they cognizant of the fact that white America has rules that hinders AA.

 

Do they know that they are rules for us and rules for them?

　

What a difference it would be if we had 15 more US Senators, at lease 100 more congress man 5,000 more state legislators mayors etc. In total of all of the black officials dose not even come close to ½ to any branch of government body as a whole. For what is well known is that some “black officials” once elected to office turn out to be as conservative and conservative as any Congressman from the backwoods of KKK Mississippi. Yet politics is too important to be left forever in its present situation AA need more political education on how to choose whom , or evaluating guideline above the gift of gab. The respect of the whites in the realm of politics may be very superficial indeed and tentative. Here he is seeking help in securing a better job and a better position of political economical power. BLACK political power can support…but never replace an organized economic power system with in the race itself that gives it the resources to do what has to be done. THE only smart move that we can make is the command for blacks as a people to be able to do for ourselves…globally.

　

We also need to look at laws that hinder us instead of help or protect us.

　

EX.1 Why is it not a law for blacks to vote. Why is it a bill that has an expiration date?

 

 

 

EX.2 The racist judicial system / Prison system. Blacks are more easily convicted for the same crimes whites would commit with the same record.

Motivated by the public's demand to imprison more criminals for longer periods of time at the lowest possible cost, cash-strapped states have turned to the private sector for help.

Private-sector, for-profit prisons, first proposed in the early 1980s, are a growth industry whose revenues came to about $1 billion in 1997, up from about $650 million in 1996. The two largest providers are Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and Wackenhut Corrections.

Sometimes these companies simply take over the management of an existing correctional facility, or they build new ones. By 1997, about 64,000 people were confined in about 140 privately run U.S. facilities (prisons, jails, and illegal immigrant detention centers). By 1998, the number had risen to 85,000.

In 2002, with more than 55,000 inmates under its care in about 60 facilities in 20 states and the District of Columbia, CCA was the sixth-largest corrections system in the country, behind Texas, California, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, New York, and Florida.

That same year, its chief rival, Wackenhut Corrections, operated more than 50 facilities with more than 40,000 beds, mostly in the United States but also in Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Some of the country's biggest corporations are investing in the private prison business.

It is not just private prison companies who are looking for a piece of the prison pie. Telephone companies, for example, contract with states to supply phone service to prisons in exchange for a share of the profits. When a prisoner makes a telephone call, it must be paid for by the recipient, often at extremely high rates. States and private prisons collect millions of dollars each year through this scheme.

Source: Prisons - Punishment for Profit


Is it "good business" for the private sector to make money off the prison

　

EX.3 For over 100+ years Officers/Overseers has been killing unarmed black males with out a reasonable cause.

Just this weekend another A student star athlete has been killed.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm sick and upset at hearing things like this happening every month or so. I have 3 sons and I do not want it to be my boys. We need to make law enforcers face criminal charges when an unarmed black person is killed by cops

 

 

EX4.. Civil Rights. Black people have been given Civil Rights for over the past 50 years. The constitution says all men are created equal (It only applied to white males when it was written) so why are ther laws for us saying we have Civil liberties?


Finally we have to face the reality that AA are the 3rd largest minority group and were in a democracy where majority rules. Knowing this fact we have to think offensively in or out of the political sphere to gain power politically. The extremely small amount of Blacks in office high and low does NOTHING for us collectively as a race. Obama has to listen to the majority and that is not AA. We need to understand that being a part of the political process is not having control over it at our numbers. We need to push for more blacks who wants to fill out our agendas. We are 100x out numbered in Capitol Hill. Obama can only do so much for us with out shooting himself in the foot (If he has any intention for doing anything for AA) and he has shown this over and over again with his "Let me say this" to retract truthful statements regarding AA or just avoiding it all together.

Let's stop talking like old white men on a Golf course about politics on CNN and let;s start talking about politics like we are on "LIKE IT IS"

 

[Geraldine Lewis]

HOTEP said:

Then, which are you?

 

None of the above. I'm an opportunist and neutral. I voted for Obama for all the obvious reasons. I do not lock myself in a box when the box doesn't want me and done nothing for me by force.

 

 

[Geraldine Lewis]

Geraldine Lewis said:

HOTEP said:

Then, which are you?

 

None of the above. I'm an opportunist and neutral. I voted for Obama for all the obvious reasons. I do not lock myself in a box when the box doesn't want me and done nothing for me by force.

 

HOTEP, so then, I suppose you are the evil that is in the middle or as the Holy Bible put it; the one that is lukewarm (Rev. 3:16).  I don't know how right it is to be Republican or anything else just because someone did or is doing something for me.  I'd rather be the one doing something for myself or for someone else.  This is what our black Republican founders did.  They rose up to get themselves out of slavery by largely helping to start the Republican Party.  Modern-day black people have basically been taught to look to politicians to do something for them.  When we let others do things "for" us; they will cleverly do things "to" us.  We don't need anything or anybody to validate who we are; either we are real in what we believe or we are not.

 

 

[Perry Ealim]

Is the today’s Black Politics hurting our communities??

 My Father once told me that there is no difference between a “White Snake and a Black Snake, they both Bite”.

On this last day of what we call Black History Month, I had to put my thoughts down after looking at what is happening in our world, country, state, county, and communities. Now I know some will say we heard it all before but just in case some have not and some need a refresher well..Here goes.

 In the '60s and '70s the Civil Rights, Black Power, movements actively promoted the idea of Black solidarity. There was a group drive to increase the participation of Black people in all aspects of the socioeconomic  the political systems  and the community as a whole. There were people who were out trying to plan an agenda and a community strategy for Black empowerment, Black Pride t and advancement.

You know just like them the “LEADERS” of today that are Black seem not to understand that saying the “White mans Ice is colder than the Black mans Ice”.  Are we just simply trading Black faces for White faces in old places?  From what I was told as a young man growing up in the 60’s and 70’s that what It meant to be Black in this country in order to create and make a change in one’s life and community one must understand the complexities of being a Black-African-American in the United States of America.  It is not enough to act differently than "White"  but to educate yourself to the point that you are just as capable as the “Whites”.  My father also told me that no matter what I do or will do in life one thing I must understand that the world does not revolve around me so in order to move to the next level “I MUST FIRST LEAN TO MOVE MYSELF, OUT OF MY OWN WAY” Once this was understood the goals of the Civil Rights movement, Black Power, and Black Economics could help end the oppression and  build a more just and humane society. Therefore, we must now set standards for our elected officials and each other.   Understand that being a Black-African-American is not just a skin color, but is symbolic of an ethic, ethos, and philosophy of social justice, social change and an economic condition of our people and community. .

Unfortunately, to many Black-African-Americans have become so self centered and only think of “ME. MYSELF. AND I” thinking.  We now find Black faces everywhere, as mayors, legislators, Congressperson, Cabinet members, judges, school board members, and executives within Corporate America. But beyond the benefits and/or changes that the people in these positions can bring to the table by virtue of their status, there is very little change for the masses of poor and working people and the so called "underclass" within the Black community.

Indeed, Black faces in high places have frequently become an impediment to progress. Ineffective or corrupt Black people in positions of power or leaders who betray the trust of the community often go unchallenged. Because of the belief in a kind of unwritten law that states Black, are not supposed to criticize a "brother" or "sister." It was much easier to fight for change when White people occupied positions of power because there was much to talk about.

 Because of skin politics, Black-African- America is now contending with the o Black-on- Black crime: Black gate keepers who block progress, and those who think their way is the only way. If you try to buck them or the systems they control you are discounted and/or discredited with out knowledge of who you are.  

Our hope for the future is our focus on Education and Economics. We must create a yardstick by which measure progress and judge those who would aspire to leadership within our community by those whom we feel have our best interest in the forefront and not just by the color of their skin.  

We must start now looking beyond electing people who represent us not by the color of their skin but seek a deeper understanding in terms of ethics, commitment, understanding and knowing when it is time to move on out of the ‘Leadership” position.  We must be able to apologetically challenge self-serving, do nothing, Black gate keepers who are blocking progress in our communities by using Education, the Ballet, and  avoiding the dangers of skin politics