The Black Caucus’ Relentless Pursuit of Insubstantial Symbolism

Certain rather immutable truths have emerged in the past 4 or 5 decades: (1) capital flow into political campaigns-- and their evil twin lobbyists-- run our federal government, by funding campaigns and writing laws, (2) Black politicians (as Dosamuno (sic) attempted to inform us... are no different than White ones.  In fact, I think most persons running for political office are need some psychological profiling.

Black elected officials at the federal level are actually in many respects much worse that their White counterparts.  The Tea Party (which is the former Bush Base and the true 'Authoritarians," Altemeyer described) speak loudly, and unabashedly.  Nothing but  a bunch of  resurrected Rethugs, in no small thanks to Obama's right-ward embrace.  Funny how they have no problem saying what they want and MEAN whereas  Black politicians like Obama  and the C. B. C. are cowered and cowards, for the most part.  They speak in hushes and whimpers, while true, died-in-the wool White Nationalists they share the rotunda with, yell from the mountains and valleys, and the bowels  and halls of Congress.

I've talked about symbolism being the Holy Grail of so-called Black politics for a long time, so I am thankful for this essay.

I mean, really, how much more pathetic is the state of Black Affairs that the Cong. Black Caucus has to beg the so-called "Black President" living in the "White" House to hire some of them Harvard Negroes?   Gotta be some competent persons of color from the several Ivy League schools.   Is this the B.C.'s key achievement on Capitol Hill?  I mean, can't Obama do an executive search and locate some of dem Negro Rhodes Scholars, of today or yesteryear?   I'm talking about dem Black Folks with better resumes than him?

The point is that Obama can't even give "Black Folk" symbolic crumbs and some bullshit token of "victory" to the C.B.C. "our  empty-suited elected officials, so they can pull wool over their symbolically-intoxicated constituents about his "Blackness".

It would be laughable if not pathetic if one assesses the lengths to which the Black "Mainstream" Intelligentsia & Political Class has sunk.  This collective mental stupor is the epitome of the scourge of social media and celebrity IMO.  Broke-ass Black folk stuck on stupid symbolism while their leaders game the system and they sink further into oblivion and "silent-suffering," like the non-reported suffering in Iraq.  Ha!  The Blacks get "Blacked-Out" of the news cycle....by the Black Prez and the B. C....or is that happening already???

I got a prediction for the next potential mind "f***k.  Lord Please don't let the Supreme Court over turn the Voting Rights Act.  If that happens, we gone be stuck on stupid for a long, long, time... singing "We shall overcome," instead of engaging in commerce and self-empowerment.  Realizing how displaced our energies are on elections.

The only thing that Obama will give African Americans is his disdain, scorn, scoldings, and the back of his hand, to the pleasure of his TRUE base:  White, Middle-Class, Social Liberals/Fiscal Conservatives.

Btw, any indictment of the Cong. B. C. is justified, and sadly so easily accomplished.  But it is also an indictment of the State of Black America, whether political, intellectual or working class.... if, in fact a "Black America" ain't going the way of Black Studies.

The ever increasing faith of the televangelist and the architect of The Great Sequester does not affected me at all. If my dear Brother Obama is trying again for his so-called " Grand bargain ", Houston, we have a problem . "Trickle-down economics" and "the trickle-down theory" are terms in United States politics to refer to the idea that tax breaks or other economic benefits provided by government to businesses and the wealthy will benefit poorer members of society by improving the economy as a whole.The term has been attributed to humorist Will Rogers, who said during the Great Depression that "money was all appropriated for the top in hopes that it would trickle down to the needy."The term is mostly used ironically or as pejorative. Today, "trickle-down economics" is most closely identified with the economic policies known as Reaganomics or laissez-faire. David Stockman, who as Reagan's budget director championed these cuts at first but then became skeptical of them, told journalist William Greider that the "supply-side economics" is the trickle-down idea: "It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory."
I loves My Dear Brother Obama ,but with four years of the hustle of bump-ing and grinding and giving the banks and Wall Street all the money that God and we had, you would think that would be enough. Now President Obama is channeling resources that were only available to The Late Great Ronald MacDonald Reagan and acting like Chicken George W. Bush hollering "the sky is falling" because he wants grandma Social Security cut and The Veterans benefits cuts(change in the CPI). Some has the audacity to auguring for this change because they are The President Obama Peasants and not his peons .I feel "looking forward", they are The President Obama "Hope and Change" Peasants that been peed upon. Now I 'm hearing words that a Clintionian refugees surge in in the wind for 2016 as if they didn't give always all the shit the first time they were in office. All my life I been voting for change . I probably have better chances hitting The lottery that getting any thing from these Bastards of a thousand fathers in This Congress. How many time must the so-call leaders in Black Face  keep blaming the other side for nothing that being done for the people who elected them.

 I don't necessarily disagree with you statement about the collective ignorance and intellectual ineptitude of the CBC.  I believe some of them know nothing and so know a whole lot. Although one has to ask themselves:  "Don't these stupid mofos pick up some information through osmosis?  From just being in the "playground?"  Perhaps from skimming a few papers?

Or here's an even better question:  "Even if you can't spell or pronounce AFRICOM or break down the acronym, don't you know that it still boils down to the White Elites continue to rape  African as they have for centuries?  You don't need a Black Studies degree to figure some shit out, that's all I'm saying.  Sometimes "mother wit" will do.  Like Blacks couldn't forsee gentrification acclerating in Harlem after Bill Clinton moved there?  How stupid are we?

One has to only look how African Americans and Blacks throughout the Diaspora have allowed the rape of African to continue post-colonial to see that we have not arrived at all and remain in the proverbial back of the bus.  U.S. Africa policy speaks volumes about the failures of the Black Political, Business and Educational Class not only in the U.S. but abroad.

Fact is the CBC doesn't give a damn about no one but themselves, they are petty careerists just like Obama. They know Susan Rice ain't about shit, but they are institutional whores just like her... takes one to know one.  But they also know their constituents are dumb as a fence post because they too are stuck on some empty symbolic bullshit.  Susan Rice will likely become Obomber's National Security Advisor, so she will continue to be a scourge and blot on the planet.

The CBC and Obama love channeling Rodney King:  "Can't we just all get along they cry?" as they tread water amongst sharks and barracudas.  LOL