Ol’
Joe Biden . . . perhaps the last “great white hope” of
LBJ’s fatally fractured and forever flawed 20th century
Democrat Party. “Moderates” who almost opposed Anita
Hill and backed “3 strikes and you're out!” “Ray-Gun”
Democrats who somehow could work with Ronnie to turn-back the hands
of progress. And yet today the “Right” has branded ol’
Joe a no-good “Negro-Lover” who allowed himself to be
used in an effort to lend legitimacy to the Obama White House.
Rush,
Hannity and all the good ol boys hate him for collaborating with the
sworn enemy - Blacks. He’s guilty in the white American court
of public opinion, guilty of aiding and abetting the sworn enemy of
the “Right” - President Obama.
Vice
President Joe Biden also represents the last strategic effort of the
entrenched and established Democrat WASP old guard to hang-on to the
reigns of control and image . . . alas “power” within a
political party they are losing clout within everyday.
The
Democratic Party is engulfed in an internal cultural war, within a
national cultural war . . . can you get to that?
Joe,
along with Nancy and Chuck supposedly represent the calm,
non-emotional, mature, rational if not only “civilized
adults” in the blue-room who are playing 3-tiered “Star
Trek” chess, advocating for political “moderation”
- to not motivate and make Trump’s troops angry with our Che
Guevara and Stokely Carmichael driven idealistic rhetoric and not
offend the “moderate” remnants of Bill and Hillary's
Dixiecrat base with all this talk of “reparations.”
“Wait,”
“slow-down” and “take it easy” as opposed
to the “Seize the time” philosophy advocates like
Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib
have embraced and are putting on the debate table.
Biden’s
run for the party’s nomination is akin-to Trump’s
presidency - yet another “last stand” for white people in
the history of America. Another attempt to control the outrage, make
sure the natives don’t get too restless. It’s the
embracing of moderation, e.g., Booker T Washington over WEB
DuBois and Marcus Garvey, As King was elevated . . . then executed
because Malcolm, Huey P. Newton, Angela Davis and Bobby Seale were so
feared. The lesser of idealistic evil if you will.
Trump
has wrestled away control of the Republican Party from those who,
believe it or not have turned out to be the “good n’
decent” white folks - like John McCain, George Will and the
Bushes - and returned the GOP to its 1960’s heyday of Strom
Thurmond, Joe McCarthy and George Wallace.
Ol
Joe’s impossible mission is to, if he chooses to accept it,
keep the Democratic Party decision-making leadership as “white”
as possible despite the party being more black, brown, red and yellow
than ever in its history. Just as Trump’s goal is to “take
back America and make it circa 1953 white again” the Democrat’s
mutual goal is to check the influence, the clout, the control of US
society via politics that Americans of color are now carrying into
the 21st century.
Here’s
what’s obvious . . . we “Americans of color” are
dealing with rampant, widespread white paranoia, dreams of
domination, notions of nationalism and millions seeking racial
supremacy - all masked as the “Make America Great Again
movement.”
White
America is struggling to hang-on to power, and what complicates a
already complex situation? It’s the extreme paranoia which
grips virtually all of locked n’ loaded White America, be it
the heartland, the coast, down south, up north or out west -
Republicans, Tea Partiers, Trumpians, Liberals, Progressives alike is
the fear that the descendants of all those who were undeniably
pimped and exploited: indigenous Natives, whose land was forcibly
taken and their numbers whittled down by continuous acts of genocide,
Afro Americans who endured not merely 250 plus years of bondage, but
another 150 years of “Separate n’ unequal,” black
codes, Sundown Laws, institutional racism, Those whose grandparents
were betrayed and interned, instantly deemed the Yellow peril. Those
whose ancestors were in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and California
before European Imperialism and now they have to prove their
Americans.
“Trump’s
America” fears, and too loathes,detest, holds an unbelievable
amount of hostility malice and animus against these folks who they
have concluded logically want payback, revenge and retribution.
“Reparations”
isn’t the half of what they fear.
However,
yes I’d submit-to White America - “put your money where
your mouth is” let the financial eggheads pound-out what would
be fair and equitable compensation for a never-ever delivered upon
“40 acres and a mule.” Never compensated for denying
equal access to the “America Dream” to at least 6 or 7
generations of Black folks - minimizing the accumulation of both
intellectual and economic resources . . . what is that worth? Put a
number on it! Pay it out, close the book, burn the book and move the
hell on into Tomorrow land.
As
I’ve contended for years, I don’t want a half-ass,
half-hearted “we’re sorry, we didn’t know what we
were doing” No, I merely seek an confession - a public
acknowledgement that “yeah, we screwed you people,” and
an admission that, still today much of the Euro-American population
“struggles” with the lofty, high-minded notion that all
people are created equal.
Ain’t
that a highly predictable bitch?
This
is the predicament White America, both Trump's and Biden's find
themselves in . . . as Malcolm X said “the chickens have come
home to roost."
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