HAPPY PRESIDENT'S DAY: THEM "DEMS" AIN'T LOYAL
by S.Comissiong
The Democrats are terrible at passing legislation that helps
Black and poor people but fantastically talented at political theater.
It is the time of the year in which the white-dominated, and
historically white-biased, United States' film industry doles out awards. The
Democratic Party should win an Academy Award each year for the outstanding job
they do in convincing Black voters that they care about their plight.
The Democratic establishment is riddled with fraudulent
"snake-oil" politicians hellbent on extending their careers. It is a
political party that unapologetically champions imperialist war after war. The
Party is no more a peacemaker than their Republican Party counterparts.
The Democrats have never initiated or supported any kind of
real plan to eliminate the vice grip of institutional racism and white
supremacy. They are an organization that has never curtailed its support of the
apartheid state of Israel and that nation's continued brutal oppression of
Palestinians. In essence, the Party is run like a Fortune 500 company. But,
despite these facts, the Democratic Party has successfully branded itself as a
champion of human rights and social justice, that cares about the structural
plight of masses of people of color. Nothing could be further from the actual
truth.
Unfortunately, the Democrats’ Black sales ploy has worked
time and time, again. They are once again packaging Joe Biden as a friend of
Black folk, hoping we will forget he was the architect of the 1994 "Crime
Bill" that had a devastating impact on Black America. How could Biden be
an ally of Blacks and also a friend to the late segregationist senator Strom
Thurmond? But Biden is not an anomaly in the Democratic Party, which is full of
bigots, warmongers and champions of racist "tough on crime" policies.
Of course, the Republican Party is den of racism. The
difference is that Republicans don’t pretend to be anything but white
supremacists. They’re proud of it. It is logical that most Black people see the
GOP as the enemy.
The Democrats, however, are treated as Hollywood
super-heroes by the bulk of Black folks – many of whom think they own the
Party, rather than the Party owning them. Blacks have been politically
domesticated into believing every story line mouthed by the Democratic
thespians, who are terrible at passing legislation that helps Black and poor
people but fantastically talented at political theater.
There are lots of Black actors in the Democratic caste of
characters, all of them auditioning to prove how well they serve the rich white
folks that control the Party. Rather than applaud their fraudulent
performances, we need to shut this too-long-playing show down, and get busy
with the politics of liberation, social justice and peace. (Source:BAR)
(bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)
