He argues that Republicans are openly predatory. He doesn’t come out and say it, but I’m sure in his mind he considers this something they can deal with. Blacks can organize, get smart, fight back, punish people for trying to take advantage of them.
He argues, though, too, that Democrats are actually worse, because even though they too are predatory, they pretend for a time to be the friend of the black man and woman.
What do they want, the interviewer asks, the Democrats? They aren’t getting rich.
Votes. He says, although of course any member of Congress who gets through a term or two always seems to manage to be vastly more well off financially when they leave than when they got there, even though they are only “serving the people.” It really is great work, if you can get it.
And how do you get it? By promising the sun, moon and stars.
And when you fail–and this is very much the case after 8 years of Obama, the first two years of which included Democrat majorities in Congress–what do you do? Do you take responsibility? To take stock, and ask if what you are doing is working? FUCK NO. What you do is blame facts and reason themselves as racist. You make it so you cannot be held to account on any standard whatsoever other than lack of popularity, which you ensure through relentless propaganda campaigns.
I have asked before, and will ask again: where are the black leaders who are not just using the plight of blacks to line their own pockets?
Malcolm X was not shot by racist whites, like Martin Luther King Jr. No, he was shot by blacks. In my view–and the full back story has to my knowledge never been told–his crime was his honesty. He was calling the corrupt corrupt. He was calling liars liars. He was calling fake leaders fake leaders.
If I myself were black, there is no doubt in my mind, the way I am wired, that I would be a huge Malcolm X fan. He was the only one telling it like it was, not just to white America–which MLK Jr. also did–but to black America too, telling them to wake the fuck up, and stop entrusting the hen house to one fox after another.
And I will underscore his point that all the other black leaders he know had the support of white Democrats. An honest black leader does not, thus, just undermine corrupt blacks, but the whites who use them for their own elections and reelections, and to satisfy their own lust for money and power.