Too often lately in Black America,
political discourse has become so parochial – so steeped in petty
assessments of marginal advantages that might accrue to some portion of
“The Race” through tactical slickness or posturing – that it sounds
like a discussion of what to wear to the beach when the tsunami hits.
The very fact that the question of Black alignment with Republicans is
entertained under any circumstances at this historical juncture, is
proof that much of the Black leadership class has lost its moorings.
While African Americans are diverted by actuarial tables (falsely)
purporting to show the merits of privatized Social Security, the
Pirates at the helm of the GOP relentlessly pursue their larger agenda:
to destroy every structure of government that has usefulness to the
public – especially, Black people – in order to clear the way for
corporate governance. If this process is allowed to advance much
further, the sea will have truly changed, smashing every mechanism for
Black progress and redress of historical grievance, swamping every
ancestor-cleared pathway to effective exercise of our collective
political will, and rendering our vaunted solidarity a disconnected
impulse with no means of expression. [more]
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