The Black Left is the Left! – Represent Our Resistance

In Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism, Cornel West cites James Baldwin’s concern that the language of resistance itself would come under attack, forcing the silence of the oppressed while enforcing ignorance on the part of the oppressor to his/her own complicity with “innocence.” Baldwin, West writes, warned that the “criminal acts of white violence and disrespect against black people” was one thing, but the crime of “innocence” constituted the worse crime against Black Americans.

I must commend Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, Assistant Professor of Urban Education and American Studies at Temple University for his article, “Not My Brand of Hope” (The Root) for recognizing that Black Americans are being further disenfranchised by the Republicrat politics of the “post-racial moment.” It’s the moment that we wake up and see we are covered in snow – and it’s not powder cocaine! It will be an avalanche of white supremacy cashing in all its imperialist chips! Hill points out that while “black faces in high places may provide psychological comfort” to white America, these individuals, “often incorporated into a Cosbyesque gospel of personal responsibility,” allow “dangerous public policies to go unchallenged.” The broken levees in New Orleans, the gentrification practices in major urban areas, the sub-prime scandal, the ramped unemployment and poverty rates among the Black masses, and the deliberate mis-education of Black children all contribute to an unchallenged policy of genocide.