Attacking the all-inclusive agenda of the first black president of the United States, Barack Obama, by bigots and hate mongers, must set off your racism alarm. Too many mostly white protesters are losing their minds because their greedy capitalistic dream role models have placed pixie dust in their eyes. This dust creates the ignorant ideology of “give no assistance to blacks,” Withholding any opportunity of economic success for our race driven by their mission of “I have to keep them in their historical place.”
If a society of rude and evil protesters is being groomed to confront black congressmen with spit and the N-word, as happened during the health care vote, believe that that same protester has some special spit waiting for you. Believing you’re a special, rich or famous black person is a sign of self-deception. Organized, those same offenders plan to spit on the financial dreams of your family and friends that do not share your same fortune.
The economic crisis is breeding hate for every group who looks different or has different a different belief system. Loss of freedom, ambition and producing fear are what these hateful groups have in store for blacks. Even more amazing is the apathy in the urban community who are uncertain about what their agenda is supposed to be, while bigots’ agenda of holding blacks back is obvious to them. They will fight hard to keep blacks from working together to develop a black economic and social agenda.
Funding black existing businesses with the same low interest loans made available to the banking system and allowing black venture capital firms to find and invest in black companies who will be able to hire and train their community, should be mandatory for all federal fiscal agencies. Tax credits should be given to media companies to grow new urban media distribution systems so that communication with the black community and new creativity can be developed. Lack of urban content distribution on a major cable channel level, out of home, online Web distribution on modern devices, mutes the true voice and aspirations of urban generations of today and tomorrow. Why is the desperate image of gangbangers economically rewarded by corporate sponsorship and endorsement?
The image distribution vehicles for the urban community accept the illusion of economic progress without asking the banking system to explain why legitimate bank loans are granted to hip-hop businesses more often than community businesses. The lack of access to capital for those enriching firms has adversely affected the business dreams of generations. Compounding minstrel images of what economic success is confuses the knowledge of what business success looks like. Placing gold records on walls or awarding trophies on stage to a hip-hop generation does not reflect the total spectrum of success of a race. The hip-hop generation must be trained instead to begin evaluating success by mainstream society’s business instruments like listings on the New York Stock Exchange and other financial indicators. Any absence of their peers on these listings states the societies true appreciation for the race and community.
Even some dated black leaders appear lost because their focus is on attacking the president and not a system that continues to not provide any targeted SBA loans or require banks that received TARP funds to extend loans to existing minority borrowers at low interest rates or renegotiate loans with the current interest rates. Instead, banks are churning out accounts with fees to make up for past losses. Elected officials from our community continue to be ensnared in legal traps set to capture gullible black officials who believe public service must be self-serving. Losing prominent chairmanships and eroding political gains, which took decades to accomplish, detrimentally punishes black constituents. It is impossible to legislate great bills written to benefit the black community if black congressional leaders’ committee rankings are compromised based on bad behavior. We need a measured review by the many oversight general accounting offices and other federal agencies that are supposed to protect our constitutional rights from the economic discrimination taking place in regulated industries and governmental agencies.
The entire black community must wake up and recognize that an unorganized community will be totally taken for granted and taken advantage of by a capitalistic system that has little consciousness or compassion for those descendants of forced slavery. Our role in this country has been relegated to entertaining society. We entertain them by calling ourselves the N-word and by being largely disorganized. We do not join and support any historical group because we are deceived into believing that we have arrived. We are lying to ourselves, while the Tea Party movement has taken a page out of our historical protest workbook and are gaining attention by publicly protesting in the streets. Too many African Americans say, “marches don’t work,” and instead hate mongers are using exploitive marches and rallies to war against the African American president. All the while, we sit idly and wait for the sheriff to show up at our door and put us out of our homes.
Even crazier, you have to be on the brink of default in order to get any relief, so the working poor who still care about their credit rating are not offered any relief at all. We should want relief for those are that are choosing not to lose the only large asset that this country has allow them to purchase. Through true greed of financial institutions, not offering principal loan relief ultimately punishes those blacks who value being responsible. Many blacks bet on sustained value, which was erased due to neglected financial oversight by federal agencies and state banking regulators. Now, many of them are financially underwater.
Quietly we complain individually about the state of our black community with the brakes of protest on, even denouncing community advocates because we don’t know how valuable protesting really is. No advancement in sports or entertainment was made without it. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had famous entertainer and acting friends that benefited greatly from his willingness to challenge the status quo through peaceable protests and marches, but that wasn’t the end of the story. We still have much work to do and we can’t sit back and allow our own tools that were used to advance us as a people to now be used by others to keep us down or, even worse, set us back. We should respect ourselves and future generations enough to organize, stand up, and fight for the things our predecessors fought and died for, for together, Yes We Can. –munson steed
