Cobb

Chickenshit you say? Man, feeding at trough of the Republicans or Democrats sickens me immensely. The leadership is one and the same: over-priviledge, out-of-touch, and old-fashioned. For a progressive thug such as myself, you gotta come better than that, hoss...

I think that as out of touch as most people are with the wheeling and dealing of politics the primary thing political affiliation is good for is bashing their neighbors over the head with rhetoric.

How many jobs have you ever gotten in your life? How many names in your black book? Name the people who have given you material opportunities. Now how many of them were politicians? None.

There's no patronage in 90% of African American politics, and that's OK. Most people give money to church and don't get money back but they're still not unhappy. So if they don't give money to political parties and get nothing back, they shouldn't be mad.

The trough I was speaking of was metaphorical. I don't expect middleclass folks to get any pork.

We haven't heard it much yet but we'll hear it again. Are you better off than you were 4 years ago. No matter what the answer is, both parties want to take the credit if the answer is good, and lay the blame if the answer is bad. But how many Americans can name the bills passed by Congress that contributes either way?

African Americans are chickenshit because they get nothing from Democrats and give them the benefit of the doubt, and they get nothing from Republicans and dismiss them without a second thought. The biggest gripe is the purported active racism of the Republicans. I find it impossible to believe that the only white racists in America are Republican. So are you afraid of racists or not?

Again, I break it down to the same analogy. All white neighborhood, may or may not be racist. If that place is no better than yours, then you have no reason to move, especially if there are racists. But if that place is better, then you should move despite the racists.

The Republicans are better because they've got the power and the momentum in politics *and* the Democrats are confused and moving in multiple directions at once... So even if the Republicans were all racists,

I'm simply asking African Americans to play realpolitik acknowledging that their only significantly different agenda from all other Americans of similar class backgrounds is their permanent interests in anti-racism. The Democrats never did and never will have the power to cleanup the racists in the Republican Party, it can only happen through black power IN the Republican Party, and so longs as down brothers are chickenshit and let the Republicans pick and choose their own Uncle Toms, then they are complicit in the racism of the Republican Party because they don't step to it.

Black Democrats who complain about white Republican racists are loudmouths throwing eggs from across the river. Never learned to swim and can't catch the rhythm of the stroke.

Cobb, you might want to reinstall your browser or something; apparently, it didn't load the entire first part of my entry.

That, or you're ignoring the context.

I'd expect that sort of thing from Oliver Willis or Darmon Thornton, but I'd thought better of you, bro.

Anyway, turning back to reality, I always figured one reason for the (apparent) lack of good, progressive black leaders might, possibly, be that within living memory it was the official policy of the most powerful government on the face of the planet to put a cap in they ass. That, and the hours are terrible, the pay is nonexistent, the media either ignores you or relentlessly attacks you for every misstatement you've made over your entire life. . .

Oh, never mind. Republicans good. Democrats bad.