Black Mis-Leadership Vs. African Revolutionaries: White Supremacy Elevates One, While Trying to Suppress the Other

Black Mis-Leadership Vs. African Revolutionaries: White Supremacy Elevates One, While Trying to Suppress the Other

by Solomon Comissiong

“Today’s African-Americans champion the political parties of slave masters.”

Several years ago the founders of Black Agenda Report coined the term, “Black Mis-Leadership Class.” It is a term that can be easily used to describe the pathetic actions of so-called black political leaders who spare no time when it comes to genuflecting and trying to placate the white political establishment. These individuals have been bought and sold by their white political masters. They are political whores who readily sell out the interests of their community, and social justice, for tenuous power – economic and political. Instead of doing the socially just things they desperately cling to their token positions within the Democratic Party. Whether they are honest enough to admit it, they are little more than convenient pawns for the white liberals who run the Democratic Party’s political plantation. And if many African-Americans were not so politically domesticated they would be able to recognize this, and therefore create or shift their support to a revolutionary “third party” – one that works in their collective interests.

So-called African-Americans have been systematically taught to narrowly view political expression via the framework of the ballot box. They have been taught to falsely believe that the only way they can create change is by way of voting. African-Americans have been taught to vote for either a Democrat or a Republican, and most of the time for a Democrat. This is hardly debatable. White liberals within the Democratic Party have a long and effective history of manipulating the minds of African/black people into believing that they have their community’s best interest at heart. Nothing could be further from the truth; they only care about procuring the African/black vote for their own political gain. And once this vote is obtained, they conveniently forget about the horrendous plight of African-Americans. These white liberals have no intention of ever relinquishing their white privilege, white political supremacy or their disproportionate stronghold on the economy. White liberals don’t give a damn about African/black lives. Democrats wage war on black and brown nations at the same rate as their Republican counterparts. It is indicative of the political programming of African-Americans that whenever a Republican wages an imperialist war black people protest, however when a Democrat does it, they exhaust every avenue to find an excuse for those wars.

“They are little more than convenient pawns for the white liberals who run the Democratic Party’s political plantation.”

White liberals have been very effective in their efforts to enlist African/black people into the Democratic Party as politicians. If they can use black faces, within elected positions, to carry out their agenda, they can ensure themselves that more and more predominately African/black communities will be theirs to manipulate – for generations to come. Unfortunately, there is no shortage of African/black politicians who continually sell out their community’s interests in order to curry favor with different pockets of financially influential white folks. They do this as a means to retain control of elected positions that aren’t worth a damn. They don’t use these positions to push for revolutionary change; instead they use them to build their political shacks of power within the Democratic Party’s political plantation. They are nothing more than token Negroes!

These two-bit charlatans are littered throughout the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), where they routinely cast votes not only against the interests of African/black people, but against the interests of humanity. It should also be noted that often times when one consciously abstains from a vote, especially on a critical issue, they are taking a cowardly stance. Black Agenda Report does an impressive job reporting on the voting records of CBC members each year with their “CBC Monitor Report Card.” Through these annual report cards one can easily see which CBC members routinely support the racist Apartheid state of Israel or which members vote for the US’s imperialist wars or who voted against the demilitarization of this country’s repressive police force.

“Democrats wage war on black and brown nations at the same rate as their Republican counterparts.”

They are far from revolutionaries, which is exactly why they occupy those spaces with so much support from their white liberal masters. African/black revolutionaries will never receive support from white liberals, and obviously not from conservatives. Revolutionaries will not receive their support for the simple fact that they are revolutionaries in the first place. White liberals support and justify imperialist wars. And if they do oppose a war, it is usually because either a Republican initiated it or they will oppose that war because it is pulling a lot of money from the US government’s overall budget. A revolutionary opposes imperialist wars because they destroy countless innocent human lives and decimate the planet. That is their most important reason to oppose war; the financial cost is a distant second.

Former congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney was a novelty as a politician. Those of her ilk are few and far between. She stood against the racist Apartheid state of Israel. She called for congressional hearings into the war criminal administration of Bush/Cheney. She had no qualms calling for social justice. These are a few of the reasons she was eventually pushed out of the Democratic Party and Congress. She was far too moral for the Democratic Party. This is why she eventually found herself as a presidential candidate representing the Green Party in 2008. She ran with vice presidential candidate, Rosa Clemente. If the United States was not stuck within a Plutocratic quagmire, their message might have reached the hoi polloi. However, the politics of McKinney and Clemente were methodically suppressed from ever reaching the bulk of those who would have benefited the most from their platform. Instead, countless millions were mentally herded into political slaughterhouses (voting booths), only to be swallowed up by the two-party dictatorship of Democrats & Republicans. Getting people to vote against their own interests is a skill Democrats and Republicans have long perfected. African-Americans have been as negatively impacted by this illusion as any other demographic – or perhaps worse.

“The politics of McKinney and Clemente were methodically suppressed from ever reaching the bulk of those who would have benefited the most from their platform.”

Many African-Americans walk around with the last names of their ancestors slave masters. Last names like “Smith,” “Jones,” and “Washington,” are all examples of last names that were forcibly given to African/black people enslaved within the United States. As if that were not bad enough, today’s African-Americans champion the political parties of slave masters. They mindlessly vote for candidates within political parties that have never had their best interests at heart. Never. Just because the candidate is black does not make him/her our ally. Many of them are Trojan horses, just like Barack Obama, used by white liberals to more deeply infiltrate, pacify and politically domesticate people who are still suffering from the “American Nightmare.”

It is long past time African/black people collectively woke up from this bad dream. Stop hitting the snooze bar; it is time we politically and socially liberate ourselves. The sooner we do this, in an organized manner, the sooner we will be on our way towards experiencing true self-determination.

Solomon Comissiong (www.solomoncomissiong.com) is an educator, community activist, author, and Founder of the Your World News Media Collective (www.yourworldnews.org). Solomon is the author of A Hip Hop Activist Speaks Out on Social Issues. Solomon is also the writer and producer of the documentary, Hip Hop, White Supremacy & Capitalism: Why Corporations Infiltrated RAP Music. He can be reached at: solo@yourworldnews.org

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