Did Al Sharpton not just oraganize a whole got damn DEI boycott yesterday? How many other marches and boycotts has he been behind in the past 4 decades? Have they killed him? Have they "blackballed" him? Stop fukking crying victim about everything...
Very interest point.
I just finished reading a portion of a book by Dr. Amos Wilson called
Blueprint for Black Power. I've been studying the last chapter - The Crisis in Leadership - all night.
He posits that there are essentially three types of leaders we see in our community - the Assimilationist (liberal), the Neoconservative (conservative) and the Black Nationalist (radical).
I got to thinking about all the folks who fall in that last category...many of them have been assassinated. I identified two that have not been though - Angela Davis and Louis Farrakhan. I got to thinking, if black Nationalist leaders are often killed, then why have these two been allowed to live.
They have been "assassinated" in other ways - such as having their reputations ruined (Davis being label a domestic terrorist) and being neutralized (newer generations associate her now with academia versus the Communist party and the Black Panthers).
I think Al Sharpton, though not seemingly a Nationalist, has not been killed or blackballed for the same reason.
He is likely useful to the other side in some way...controlled opposition. My guess is those vested in keeping the current structures in place understand that, in the grand scheme of things, Sharpton is not really trying to help the Black community bring about real change...not to the degree it would take, according to what
Blueprint suggests.
It seems killing is the option for those they feel really have the power to organize and mobilize the people and resources towards the cause of not even necessarily bringing down the current system through outright violent revolution, but by separating and building a solid black economy and political base which renders us independent from them. Since so much of
their economic models are built around us and depend on pilfering our labor and capital, then, yeah, they are going to be pissed and work towards shutting that shyt down immediately.