The
Skin Game: Torch of Freedom And The Moral Fiber Of The
Black Community
18 February 2010By Keith Johnson
February is “Black History Month”, a time to celebrate
and reflect upon significant people and experiences
unique to the African Diaspora. And, as expected, the
race pimps and hate merchants have wasted no time
using that as an opportunity to further drive a wedge
between Blacks and Whites struggling to find common
ground.
The orchestrated cacophony of ugly slurs and
defamation, targeted against any White American who
dares to speak out in defiance of Obama’s abominable
policies, has been a predominant topic of discussion
on television, the press and even within the pages of
a popular children’s comic book.
But this should come as no surprise to those of us
familiar with the tactics of the radical left. Rule #5
of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” states Ridicule
is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible
to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the
opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."
And if you doubt for one moment that the Obama
propaganda machine is not deploying these tactics,
then I implore you to consider this statement by
Alinsky’s son, David:
“Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see my
father’s model for organizing is being applied
successfully beyond local community organizing to
affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine
tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th
birthday”
Just this past week, the usual suspects in the MSM set
this rule in motion. On Monday’s ‘The Dylan Ratigan
Show’ on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan began the program
by ranting: “The tea party has a bit of an integrity
problem, as everybody from birthers, to open racists,
to outright Nazis are actually on the team”. On
Tuesday’s “Countdown” Keith Olberman dubbed the Tea
Party Movement the “Tea Klux Klan” while Hard Ball’s
Chris Matthews compared Gubernatorial hopeful Debra
Medina with “Southern Racists”. That same day,
Newsweek’s Jonathan Kay posted an article entitled
“Black Helicopters Over Nashville” which characterized
the movement as “dominated by people whose vision of
the government is conspiratorial and dangerously
detached from reality.” And on Thursday, Huffington
Post blogger Molly Secours took the defamation one
step further by stating that “racism resides within
all white people. No exception. Sorry. Whether you are
a hip, young liberal white guy who has played music
with famous black musicians or a guy working at a
factory in a rural Kentucky. One cannot be raised in
these United States with the history of racial
oppression and hatred and not be racist”.
None of these limousine liberals have any more concern
for the Black community than their “so-called”
conservative counter-parts. If they did they would be
questioning why several thousand more of our Black men
and women are being sent off to fight in needless wars
that Obama promised would end. If they cared they
would ask why Obama took time off from his
Presidential campaign to urge fellow Democrats to
support a Wall Street bailout that gave billions to
his biggest campaign contributors. If they gave a
rat’s ass about Black causes they would ask why
millions of our children are starving right here in
America while billions of dollars are annually sent
overseas to the State of Israel. But asking these
tough questions would make them real journalists,
wouldn’t it? And there is no room for real journalists
on a network like MSNBC or in the pages of Newsweek,
two wholly owned and operated subsidiaries of the
military-industrial- complex.
Reactions to certain things that transpired during the
Nashville Tea Party event, featuring Sarah Palin and
Tom Tancredo, has been the primary source of these
recent aspersions. While the “Tea Party Movement” in
its current form is certainly worthy of ridicule, it
has become a catalyst for reinforcing stereotypes by
characterizing all Caucasian Americans with divergent
views as vicious, hateful racists. The objective here
is self-evident: stifle dissent, terminate the
exchange of free and open debate and alienate your
opponent from those whom you wish to exploit.
The ruling elite, a cartel of foreign bankers, owns
both political parties in the United States. The party
they have chosen, to control and manipulate various
groups of ethnic minorities, is the Democratic Party.
By deploying a military tactic of “Divide and
Conquer”, both parties (Republican and Democrat) are
tasked with the responsibility of insuring that no
bi-partisanship exists beyond brief concerted efforts
to advance the draconian wishes of their shared
masters. Throughout the world, where there exists
little or no significant ethnic diversity, the same
tactic is deployed. However, instead of dividing the
people up along racial lines, intelligence agencies
are sent in to stir up trouble according to
ideological or tribal differences. They may create or
fund opposition parties, arm one or both neighboring
tribes and then foment hostilities where none
previously existed. The more fractured a society
becomes, the easier they are to control. And although
we’ve yet to see things come to blows here at home,
those on the left certainly are taking us in that
direction and an all out race war would definitely
work to their advantage.
While we are certainly justified in passing judgment
upon the despicable behavior we see on the left, it
should not be used as an excuse to lend any kind of
sympathy to those on the right, whose behavior is just
as deplorable. After all, had it not been for the
likes of Sarah Palin being allowed to identify herself
as a Tea Party leader, the left would have very little
in way of ammunition to attack the movement as a
whole. Ever since the current leadership and their
swarms of reactionary, war-mongering FOX NEWS Zombies
came in to poison the well; it has been open season on
anyone who even remotely refuses to fall in lock step,
blind allegiance to the Obama doctrine. You no longer
have to be a cross burning Klan member to qualify as a
racist. All that is required is white skin and the
audacity to suggest that our current President may be
taking this country in the wrong direction.
It would be easy to make light of such things and
dismiss our critics as petty and juvenile. But
unfortunately there is a significant portion of our
society who has been duped into believing this tripe
and I am confident that they would not hesitate in
utilizing the most drastic of measures to keep us
silent and out of the way.
It should be clear to anyone that things have taken a
turn for the worst. No longer will an issue or cause
be allowed to be the focus of any debate or protest.
Racism will be said to be at the root cause of all
disagreements. But this should not dissuade anyone
from his or her march towards freedom. There are end
runs around all the obstacles our enemy laid before
us, and this latest obstacle is no exception. Within
every crisis lie new opportunities.
Playing the race card is one of the lowest blows you
can deliver to your opponent and usually comes into
play only as a last ditch effort when all else fails
and you are short on options. But once that card is
dealt, and you have been accused of being a racist,
it’s a hard stain to remove and the only way to redeem
yourself is to prove them all wrong. This cannot be
achieved by simply denying the accusation or by
exposing the malicious tactics of your accuser. It
requires a concerted effort to align the perception
with the truth.
To assume that your integrity should be self-evident
and that your positions can stand on the weight of its
own merits is wishful thinking. Truth is one thing but
perception is everything, especially in the context of
getting your message across. If the negative
perception one has of you is never challenged it will
exist as if it is reality.
Perhaps we should be grateful that the enemy has
identified a major weakness in our struggle to achieve
a more broad appeal. That major weakness lies in the
fact that the demographic of the “Freedom/Patriot
Movement” is not reflective of the demographic of the
nation as a whole. While there certainly have been
Blacks who have stood with us in solidarity at Town
Hall Meetings and Tea Party events, they are still too
few in number to dispel the allegations of wide spread
racism by the radical left. It is still hard to shout
down claims that the “Teabaggers” are a bunch of
right-wing rednecks that hate black people when you
pan the audience and struggle to find evidence of even
one black attendee among a sea of white faces. While
there are those who would offer this up as evidence
that Blacks are being excluded, I would argue that it
is the very propagation of this myth that has
discouraged Blacks from joining our cause. Some are
even strong-armed and beaten by other Blacks that
consider taking part in Town Hall protests as some
form of race betrayal; which brings to mind a black
youth, Kenneth Gladney, who was beaten by a group SEIU
members for selling Gadsden flags at an event in St.
Louis last summer. Blacks have certainly not been
excluded and I would argue that there has actually
been an effort to encourage Blacks into the
movement…maybe just not enough encouragement.
Many of us would prefer not to even have to be forced
to address the racial question, hoping that our noble
ideals would be enough to attract likeminded people of
all colors. But it is often difficult to convey these
ideals over the persistent, shrieking lies and
disinformation being propagated by a very powerful and
well-funded media. Perhaps we have reached the point
where we should distance ourselves from the corrupted
Tea Party Movement. It would be sad to be forced to do
so considering that it began as a grass-roots,
non-partisan movement that was against high government
taxation and wasteful spending on wars. But now it has
become something ugly. It has been hi-jacked by the
GOP to advance the Republican agenda and to be used as
a campaign platform for main line 2012 Presidential
hopefuls. When you look out among the crowd of people
now attending these functions, you can understand why
some people are turned off. Most of them are
mainstream Republicans who hang on every word Glen
Beck or Sean Hannity utters. They will scream about
government spending on health care yet have no problem
spending billions of dollars more on war and Israel.
They will complain about being taxed into poverty but
show no concern for the poverty that already exists.
Glen Ford of “Black Agenda Report” characterizes these
people as “White Nationalists, who yearn for “a time
when the United States was a self-proclaimed White
Man's Country.” While I disagree with that statement,
I do not disagree with the racist over-tones that
statement conveys. I do believe these people are
racist. But not the “let’s lynch ‘em” kind of white
sheet Klansman that Ford’s statement invokes but more
of a uncareing, “let them eat cake” kind of racism.
I’ve no doubt that many of these “Tea Party” attendees
couldn’t care less about the challenges facing the
Black community. Many of these people are
self-centered and concerned only in matters that
effect them directly. This must change if we ever
expect to open dialogue with our Black allies. Their
concerns should be our concerns. When blacks march in
opposition to police brutality in their community, we
should be there too. When blacks demonstrate against
needless wars in Africa and abroad, we should ask
permission to join with them. These opportunities open
the door for an exchange of ideas and brings us that
much closer to uniting as one people against our
common enemy- the foreign offshore banks that not only
controls the Office of the Presidency but almost every
other politician in the House and Senate.
And when we do criticize Obama, we should not make the
mistake of calling him a socialist. When Nancy
Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra, made her documentary
film “Right America: Feeling Wronged” she focused on
right-wing Republican voters who were obsessed with
characterizing Obama as being a socialist. She did
this because she knew that there was a significant
segment of society who have no problem with socialism.
These people equate socialism with taking from the
rich and giving to the poor. And when you are poor and
have trouble putting food on the table, socialism
sounds pretty good. The appropriate way to describe
Obama is within the context of fascism. Fascism
socializes the debts among the population while the
profits stay at the top among the rich. This is one
way to make inroads with people who have been
hoodwinked by the corporate media. Another way is to
point out that there are alternatives to funding
health care. Rather than forcing people to buy pricey
insurance policies that only enrich the Health care
industry, we can repair the shortcomings in our
current system with a Tobin Tax on Wall Street, that
currently pays no taxes on their speculative
transactions. Or how about Tariffs on goods coming
into the United States. There is no reason why any
American should have to pay a penny more in taxes. How
many people know that not one red cent of income tax
money goes towards infra-structure or social services
but rather is paid towards the interest on the debt
owed to the Federal Reserve? Pointing this out could
help to dispel the myth that greedy middle class
Americans who oppose increases in their income tax are
hoarding money that could be used to help those in
need.
Of course this education goes both ways. There are
dynamics within the Black community that none of us
can relate to. Black youths are a constant target of
police profiling which places a disproportionate
number of males into a crowded “for profit” prison
system. The Anti-Defamation League and Southern
Poverty Law Center, who trains our police, never
address the real racial conflict that exists between
gangs of Blacks and Hispanics and instead focuses on
small cells of institutionalized White Supremacists
who have neither the political clout nor the resources
to effectively carry out any of their objectives. They
do this to create a riff between races by overstating
the significance of these threats and creating a
climate of fear. These same two organizations (ADL and
SPLC) are also responsible for waging war on the two
religions most common to blacks: Christianity and
Islam, and regularly awards pornographers like Hugh
Hefner with their annual “Torch of Freedom” award
while turning a blind eye to the pornographic
exploitation of Black women that further deteriorates
the moral fiber of the Black Community and contributes
to the erosion of the family unit.
Taking an interest in these issues can go a long way
in bridging the gap between our two communities. If we
ever hope to come together, adding theses concerns to
our dialectic is essential. In the end, we just might
manage to lay the foundation necessary to build an
alliance upon. And this alliance may very well be just
what is needed to save this country.
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