Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk

Black Shells

Yesterday I peeped an article on Hill News about black republicans trying to run for office. Now as I indicated in my latest essay on not voting, I could really care less whether a candidate is a part of the Republican Party or not. My issue is whether they understand the real deal. I'm all for black people infiltrating the Republican Party for our ends but these Black Republicans are some of the worse batch of Negroes since those that sold their brethren to the Europeans.

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Many black Republicans running for Congress are turning away from the identity politics of race and ethnicity and, in the process, seeking to reshape the way politicians and voters think about skin color and ideology.

"Race does not come before my politics," said Margaret Crosby, a black Republican running in Rhode Island's 1st District against Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D)."I just happen to be in a black shell," said Crosby, who picked up an endorsement by Black America's Political Action Committee last month.


This is the same Louis Armstrong "Black and Blue" syndrome. L. Armstrong stated in that song:

"I'm white inside,.." Blackness a shell? Race does not inform politics? What planet is this guy from?

This is what white Americans like with their Negro pets. And that's what they are. Black Shells with white supremacy ideology cream filling. They act like their white counterparts when it comes to the issues of schools, civil rights, war and government expenditures and collections.

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According to this thinking, black people are not de facto Democrats whose political fortunes are necessarily tied to federal largesse. Rather, these Republicans said, black people must free themselves of decades of group think.


Again I'm all for ending the Democratic lock on the Black Vote, but these fools (And I'd like to call them something else but I'm trying to keep it clean here), actually believe that blacks should not represent themselves as a group? Why don't they shop that junk to the Hasidim in Crown Heights, or perhaps to the people that pushed Ms. McKinney from office in Georgia. Of course living in America and in American communities there are going to be areas where the political and economic aspirations of Black folks will intersect with other groups but to split up black folks and tell them to vote, spend and live as if they were each the only individual on the planet is the silliest thing to suggest and is not even the policy of their own party members. The whole campaign process is designed to encourage "group think." Did these Black Republickers ever study the psychological aspects of advertising?

Enough of trashing these folks, let me discuss the problems of black non-Republicans and those who still have Cultural integrity. The reason why these Black Republicans are getting attention and an increasing ear of the new black intellectuals is because of the utter lack of effectiveness of the current leadership. They no longer have the moral clout that they had in the past. They foolishly fought for things that we didn't need. Their bone headed push for integration decimated black businesses and neighborhoods only to now be seen as complaining about gentrification and the lack of black businesses. In our Black Colleges black radical thought is barely tolerated and the education received is largely "plantation training." Our so called Black awards shows only highlight entertainers and athletes and fail to address the growing intellectuals of blacks who do not see what they can offer their communities other than critique. The only organizations that have put forth efforts to mobilize blacks who were not teachers, preachers or politicians have been the UNIA and the NOI. It is of no surprise that those two organizations have been subject to all manner of disruptions. Amy Garvey wrote in "Garvey and Garveyism" that she noted that of all the organizations that were around during the UNIA's time, the UNIA was of particular interest to governments because it's aims of mobilizing blacks to collective independent action was a great threat to the policies of these governments as it regarded blacks worldwide. These governments did all they could to grow oppositional 'Black" organizations to keep the blacks in check. These Black Republicans are no different.

I told you before and I'll tell you again, Republicans will get into office regardless of the black vote. One only has to look at what was done to Cynthia McKinney, Other Blacks who don't toe the line will find themselves in the same situation. And because the old guard Civil Rights/ Black organizations failed to address the (+e) [ see my Ujamaa commentary from Kwanzaa 2003] They are unable to defend against the well funded, group thinking and well organized Republican Party that wishes to officially return to the days when blacks were mere black shell, rubber stamps to US policy.

Links:
http://www.hillnews.com/news/010704/black.aspx