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August 27, 2014

The Intellectual One-Drop Rule

Black Thought requires an immanent apocalypse, a shadow force of Klan-like proportions,
a rhetorical threat used to hush dissent. There is no endgame, because in the end, the only real game is about control of the putative Black mind. Once I thought: "I'm beginning to think that it is reasonable to believe that the end of black politics will come when we have a black President, rather like the end of Irish Catholic politics." But then we got one and he's not really Black and there are other evasions. But eventually, all will have to admit that Black Politics is a fiction, or essentially a useless tangent absorbed into whatever sentient neo-liberalism that emreges from America's Democrat Party. All of it boils down to the same invective. These here are 'our nigrahs', and everybody else ought to keep their hands off because we know what's best for them.
- - Cobb

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 27, 2014 7:25 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Cobb is wrong on one thing: Black Politics is NOT a fiction.

Black Democrat politicians are the single most corrupt and malignant socio-political force in America after general "progressivism." As an aggregate, black Democrats have been the most destructive, corrupt, and inept at governance in all of modern American history.

They, in effect, have left the "liberal" plantation and established their own malevolent brand of "progressive" politics. Once only the province of cities, the plague they represent has now infected the entire nation thanks to the election and re-election of Obama.

Posted by: DonRodrigo [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 27, 2014 9:03 AM

Cobb seems to subscribe to a set of assumptions, considers them universally applicable, and then bemoans their expression.
Those being exploited are choosing to be so treated as a more pleasing alternative to taking responsibility and demonstrating courage and perseverance in earning one's own self-respect.
ML King Jr. clearly demonstrated in word and deed what it means to be a human being. Why is he not emulated as a paragon of maturity and self-respect?
ML King Jr. was a saint with perhaps one or both feet of clay -- but still a paragon of understanding, decency, and vision beyond skin color.
Selfishness in place of adequate selfless service, apathy and neglect of duty in place of timely action are the chains and leg-irons that hobble anyone's maturing development.
Stop identifying with the retrograders and join the class of first-graders learning and teaching their selves about fidelity to faith in one's self. Let the nay-sayers and bs-brayers wallow in their self-imposed servitude to crappy attitude.

Posted by: Stug Guts [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 27, 2014 4:22 PM

Well, I suppose we could just step back and let them sort it out for themselves. They are doing so well in Detroit.
Too bad not more Black folks want to join with the Rastafarians and get on a ship, go back to Ethiopia, the Promised Land for the Lost Tribe and the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Haile Selassie.
They could all get back to their roots, where most of the slave traders, BTW, were Blacks. Become at one with their environment by shitting in the same stream from which they draw their water; drinking banana beer and wielding machetes like they were laser swords. Roast monkey with all the trimmings. Oh, there'd still be dancing.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 27, 2014 10:20 PM

Black politics is a fiction in that it exists within various black communities in various cities as an orthodoxy, but that orthodoxy does not participate in the actual machine of government. IE every town has their own 'black politics' which has its planks and platitudes but those are in fact defied by the actual planks and platitudes of the major parties. If there was a third major party whose voice and votes counted, then America would come to know the world of 'black politics' very well. That America would not be shocked and appalled by Jeremiah White - they would put up and work with him as they do Nancy Pelosi and Ron Paul and other mainstream crackpots. America has no idea what 'black politics' really is at the grassroots level, because those sentiments never get elected.

Posted by: Cobb [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2014 3:11 PM

Stug Guts, I don't think you know what I'm talking about at all. Your response is all non-sequitur.

FWIW MLK is a sort of one-off guy - a man of America who made the brilliant oration of the American citizen clear and present but who ultimately mistook non-violence for a strategy when in fact it is only a tactic. Which is why he can only speak for civil rights under law, but never approach the purity of liberty as an inherent right of man. Just as you can't compare Robert E. Lee to Gen McArthur. One's tactics are national, the other's global. King is a national man, and as such could not talk about the true full nature of man in nature. That doesn't change the fact that King was the best neighbor anybody could want, but to overstate King's contributions is really to circumscribe all moral ambition to the 'colonialism' trope. Too small for me.

Aside from that, King wasn't half the man of Thurgood Marshall, neither in charisma or intellect.

Posted by: Cobb [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2014 3:20 PM

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