Thoughts on the Black Misleadership Class
Regular readers of my old blog know that I have written about the topic of race in America, specifically as it relates to continued and systemic racism against black people. And yes, they were and are discriminated against because of their skin color and ancestry rather than the continent of their ancestral origin. For all those people who want to keep using the term 'African-American'- let me remind you that Elon Musk is technically African-American. Anyway, in some of my previous post on this subject, I have also written about why the quest for respectability and acceptance by whites was based on a flawed idea, how the willingness of blacks of accept white narratives about them has been super problematic and why conversion to Christianity was the second worst thing that happened to black people in USA. I will soon start reposting those articles on this SubStack.
And this brings me the topic of this post, or more precisely, how I came up with the idea of writing it. Over the past few years, I noticed something interesting about the response of almost all of the so-called 'black leadership' types to large protests about police brutality against black people. To make a long story short, even though they acknowledged the existence of this problem, almost every one of them did nothing beyond push for a few cosmetic measures and make long speeches. And this includes that black neoliberal president aka Obama. In other words, they took great care not to upset the status quo while using those events to cynically get more black people to vote for them in elections. It becomes obvious that we have not gone much past the systemic change achieved by civil rights legislation passed in the 1960s.
Which is a nice way of saying that black 'leadership' since the 1970s has largely been about pretending to fight for their constituency while simultaneously supporting the status quo and getting rich. As a recent example, Stacey Abrams (one of the alleged new non-white stars of democratic party) supported republican gerrymandering to reduce the power of black voters in Georgia as long as it consolidated her position. She has also became a multimillionaire over the past few years from her political activism. Some of you might remember that in 2015 it was revealed that Chicago police operated a "secret" site for disappearing mostly black people, and this occurred in a city under the control of democratic party and large non-white presence in local government for many decades. The point I am trying to make is there is something peculiar about the black leadership class in USA which makes them unusually willing to screw over their own people while pretending to care about them.
Contrast that to what you see in politicians from other minority ethnic groups, who either pretend to be "honorary" whites (Booby Jindal, Nikki Haley) or are involved in taking effective steps to benefit both their constituencies and ethnicities. Most black political leadership types, on the other hand, build their careers and rise to power via strong support of black voters but then conveniently go along with policies which perpetuate systemic racism and discrimination against their own people. You might remember how almost all of the congressional black caucus (including frauds such as Maxine Waters and John Lewis) supported Hillary Clinton during the 2016 democratic primary. Which is funny, since legislation passed under her husband, Bill Clinton, to reform the criminal and welfare system screwed over the lives of millions of black people. Also, HRC tried to become popular with white suburan voters in 1990s by labeling young black men as super-predators.
Moving on.. why did people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have such long careers in the public spotlight? Can you think of two more ineffectual "leaders" for the "black community"? It is as if they were supported from the outside to bamboozle their own community. More importantly, what did they achieve other than getting themselves in the news by making speeches? Can you think of one major problem (even at the local level) which these two conmen helped solve, over their multiple decades in the public spotlight? How can these people be even presented as semi-authentic leaders? There are, in anything, living examples of almost everything a leader should not be. To make matters worse, their younger replacements are at least as bad.
Take Kamala Harris, a woman who built her entire career by pandering to the fears and prejudices of white voters. A woman who gleefully described how she enjoyed jailing poor black women for the truancy of their children, but did not prosecute foreclosure fraud perpetrated by rich white guys which hurt poor racial minorities, tried to help cover sexual abuse by clergy and laughed at the prospect of marijuana legalization in 2014. Now she has suddenly remembered her Jamaican roots. Then there is Cory Booker. We could write an entire book about his dishonest behavior, and here is just a small taste. He is also a well-known confabulater, faithful servant to big pharma and an all-round embarrassment. And let us not forget Obama, the ultimate black neoliberal politician, who had no qualms about throwing millions of poor (and heavily non-white) people on the street in aftermath of housing bubble after 2009. How do these self-hating scam artists end up becoming "leaders" of their communities?
What do you think? Comments?