If Hillary Clinton Wins the Nomination, Blacks Must Send A Decisive Message
posted in Politics, youtube, audio | | | View blog reactions | Print This PostI’m proposing a bold power play; one that for me though, is a no brainier.
Hillary Clinton employed a race baiting southern strategy to polarize the electorate and marginalize Barack Obama as just the Black candidate in order to cause a white backlash that would guarantee her a majority of the vote.
We have documented this race baiting strategy here, here , here, and here. The evidence is ample.
If Hillary Clinton and company can do what she did to Black people, especially in the face of the rousing support our community has given the Clinton’s, and we still turn around and reward her for it with our votes; we will be sending a clear message that we don’t demand respect, and that we will not hold politicians accountable for how they treat us, so anything goes.
A message will be sent with our vote one way or the other. I say the message should be no, we are not going to take it. We’re not going to be disrespected, disregarded, mistreated and humiliated and still come back begging at the table of the democrats. No, you can not treat us any kind of way and still get our support. And yes, you will be held accountable to the Black community no matter what party name you wear.
You may say “we have to vote for the Democrat, it’ll be worse with a Republican” — so what! You’re worried about whether or not you get some more crumbs when you could be getting the whole enchilada if you ever exercise any power. If you have to forgo the crumbs for a season to finally eat good, then a little more pain for the moment is better than continuous lesser pain forever.
The ideal that you don’t suffer something in order to get something more is not only wrong, it’s plain cowardly, and cowards don’t win. It’s absolutely equivalent to refusing to do rehab on an injury since the rehab hurts more than the injury; and staying injured and in pain for the rest of your life, rather than take more pain for a short time so you can be healed and pain free for the rest of your life. Look at what happens to people who refuse to suffer the short-term pain of doing their rehab.
Fredrick Douglas said “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
If the status quo benefits them, what motivation do they ever have to change?
We have to have new policies, and new strategies derived from those policies.
Old time Negro spirituals are fine; but old time Negro thinking is not. Doing the same thing continuously and expecting different results is insanity. Accepting our political plight in the world as is, is cowardly.
“Oh white man, we’ll bow for any crumb you see fit to give us.”
Old time thinking and methods might have been good for their day; but it’s a new day with new realities that must be confronted effectively.
The ideal here is to leverage power. If we have the power to keep them out of the white house and we do that, then they have to come to us to regain power; and they will absolutely always want to regain power. We then become power brokers.
Fredrick Douglas also said “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” Fredrick Douglas has continually been proven right for over 100 years.
Martin Luther King understood the paramount necessity to leveraging power:
“Black Power, in its broad and positive meaning, is a call to black people to amass the political and economic strength to achieve their legitimate goals. No one can deny that the Negro is in dire need of this kind of legitimate power. Indeed, one of the great problems that the Negro confronts is his lack of power. From the old plantations of the South to the newer ghettos of the North, the Negro has been confined to a life of voicelessness and powerlessness. …The plantation and the ghetto were created by those who had power both to confine those who had no power and to perpetuate their powerlessness. The problem of transforming the ghetto is, therefore, a problem of power – a confrontation between the forces of power demanding change and the forces of power dedicated to preserving the status quo.”
“Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political or economic changes. In this sense power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love and justice. One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. …What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. …There is nothing essentially wrong with power. The problem is that in America power is unequally distributed.” (Where Do We Go, p. 36-37).
Y’all don’t know nothin’ bout Black Power Martin Luther King do you, you just know I Have Dream Martin Luther King. Read more on Black Power King here
I’m not done with the words of the Icons yet.
Malcolm X exposed the lie of the Democrat benefit to the Black man 40 years ago; the same lie that persist now, that make Blacks anxious at the thought of pulling away from them. Though Malcolm demonstrated in his time their half-assing; then how much more should they not disregard us now when for 40 more years we’ve supported them no matter what?:
The time when White people can come in our community and get us to vote for them so that they can be our political leaders to tell us what to do and what not to do, is long gone [to bad that was incorrect wishful thinking, but it should be the truth]…
We must understand the politics of our community, and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what politics play in our lives; and until we become politically mature we will always be mislead, lead astray, or deceived or maneuvered into supporting someone who doesn’t have the good of our community in their heart. It was the black man’s vote that put the present administration in Washington , D.C. Your vote, your dumb vote, your ignorant vote, your wasted vote put in an administration in Washington , D.C. , that has seen fit to pass every kind of legislation imaginable, saving you until last, then filibustering on top of that. And your and my leaders have the audacity to run around clapping their hands and talk about how much progress we’re making. And what a good president we have…
In this present administration they have in the House of Representatives 257 Democrats to only 177 Republicans. They control two-thirds of the House vote. Why can’t they pass something that will help you and me? In the Senate, there are 67 senators who are of the Democratic Party. Only 33 of them are Republicans. Why, the Democrats have got the government sewed up, and you’re the one who sewed it up for them. And what have they given you for it? Four years in office, and just now getting around to some civil-rights legislation. Just now, after everything else is gone, out of the way, they’re going to sit down now and play with you all summer long—the same old giant con game that they call filibuster. All those are in cahoots together. Don’t you ever think they’re not in cahoots together…But they’re playing that old con game. One of them makes believe he’s for you, and he’s got it fixed where the other one is so tight against you, he never has to keep his promise.
So it’s time in 1964 to wake up. And when you see them coming up with that kind of conspiracy, let them know your eyes are open. And let them know you—something else that’s wide open too. It’s got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet.
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