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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Pretending to Hold President Obama Accountable: BA Report Dec 2012
Established Black organizations now claim they are ready to make demands of the First Black President. But are they serious? "What Marc Morial of the Urban League, Ben Jealous of the NAACP, Al Sharpton and others have outlined are issue-based suggestion boxes for the president's perusal." They're not about to "demanding" anything.
When you criticize black leadership, and especially the president from the left, the establishment has no answer, they call you "a hater." But has our current black leadership outlived its usefulness? And if so, what's a "hater" to do?
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Some African Americans associate racial progress with Black people achieving "the right to perform the evil acts which were once the reserve of whites." The ascension of Black secretaries of state marks "the first time that black Americans began to look the other way and excuse their government's inhumanity."
Comedian Lily Tomlin once said that no matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up. CNN's latest installment of "Black In America" with its focus on the "tragic mulatto" proves her right. CNN's version of history erases the actual origin of North America's "one drop rule."
The U.S. tells the world it can't figure out how six million people died in the Democratic Republic of Congo – while Washington writes the checks and arms the perpetrators to the teeth. Like Mafia Dons pretending to be honest businessmen, successive U.S. administrations subsidize and direct the worst genocide since World War Two.
The U.S. and Europe produce less and less of what the world wants, and will be eclipsed by Asia by the year 2030, according to America's own National Intelligence Council. But the NATO allies account for 70 percent of the world's military budget. The task between now and 2030, is to prevent the decaying powers "from holding the productive forces and nations of the world hostage by force of arms."
Massive lawlessness by the U.S. government, at home and abroad, requires a response of civil resistance. "Today's civil resisters are acting for the express purpose of upholding the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, human rights, and international law." The resistance is lawful. "The U.S. government officials are the outlaws!"
Cuba has become a world-class medical powerhouse with very limited resources, while "the US squanders perhaps 10 to 20 times what is needed for a good, affordable medical system." As a result, the Cuban infant mortality rate is "below that of the US and less than half that of US Blacks," and Americans can hardly claim to have a health care system.
"All Western societies are based on large-scale oppression and systematic theft, much of that dependent on the use of, and the threat of the use of, force, that is, armed robbery." So, why all the fuss and worry about the decline of the West?
In a stealth maneuver last week, the Michigan legislature passed right to work legislation, intended to strip the nation's few remaining unions of their ability to hire staff and be politically active. The Real News Network interviews Jane McAlevey, a successful union organizer to explain how this happened & what it means.
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