Key excerpt from The Campaign for Black Republicans;
Bradley's Michael Joyce broke the mold. He knew (or sensed) the truth about the black clergy—that only a minority had ever belonged to the progressive "social gospel" branch of the church, personified by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The unrelenting needs of the black community made it highly vulnerable to capital penetration and manipulation. Black Milwaukee became the foundation's political laboratory, confirming Joyce's theory that vouchers and faith-based initiatives could undermine a Black Political Consensus forged through generations of struggle. Most importantly, Joyce demonstrated locally that capital could recruit and train sufficient black voucher cadre, and entice enough preachers, to have a measurable effect on mass African-American political behavior. The perception, if not the reality, of a Black Political Consensus might be shattered.
wha'choo talkin bout willis?
The systematic troglodyte financed buyout of charismatic black materialist anti-Christian P.I.M.P's for political purposes is the rank and stankin kernal of this disclosure.
It's like I tried to tell Spence this morning, buy your politicians wisely and the policy and patronage game is surely won. Errthing else is merely "democratic just-so-storytelling" and a facetious diversion no longer worthy of being taught to our children.
When you attack a network, root the whole phuggin infrastructure, not just a couple of honeypots out on the political DMZ...,
Posted by: cnulan at March 10, 2005 09:19 PM
I think you've hit on something very important. Funny how people with no inhibitions about dirty laundry can get to the nut of black life in a hurry. Anyway, speaking as one of those who buries my face in my hands whenever I see politicians coming to black churches with the hallelujah choir in the background, I think this is a fundamental dysfunction of the black polity.
I'm considering doing more than a little bit of researching Reconstruction, especially as regards its shaping the political expectations of African Americans. My preliminary conclusion is that when Hayes sold out blacks in 1877, it set a preface of paranoia and pushed black elected officials back to churches and otherwise underground.
Is it the legacy of slavery that dictates African American cannot trust their own elected officials or electoral politics? No, I say it is the legacy of Reconstruction. The question is whether or not contemporary African Americans are in any way justified in using the church in the same way blacks did 120 years ago. Who is setting back the race 5 generations?
Any Black Political Consensus established under Christian theocracy is dysfunctional to begin with, because there's nothing democratic about it.
Posted by: Cobb at March 10, 2005 07:48 PM