When I visit my "country cousins" I feel a lot of love from extended family members who know me because I have grown up with with them over time and who I have intimate relationships with. ?I love the food. ?I love the laughs. ?I love the memories.
Yet as I depart and go back home I hear the reports of the drama that are channeled through other members of the family.
The key issues can be summarized as follows:
- Limitations related to lack of education. ?(While most have a high school diploma, those who did not graduate high school struggle, while those with a college degree eek out a favorable existence)
- Physical ailments due to dietary and lifestyle choices. ?(Obesity runs rampant and the #1 culprit is THE RICH FOOD that they consume. ?While this is some of the best food that I ever get to taste - Paula Deen has nothing on them regarding the consumption of unhealthy food additives (frying of vegetables that should have been steamed, adding pork sausage to a tortilla chip dip that would have tasted just fine without it and the extra calories)
- Breakdown in male/female long term committed relationships and out of wedlock births (The days of a headstone with the name of a deceased spouse and the reservation for the surviving spouse are over. ? One can't rest eternally next to a spouse of 30+ years if such relationships don't get past 5 years and one or two children that are produced.)
From these points (Education, Lifestyle and Relationships) comes all of the other ailments:
- Susceptibility to the whims of the "Unskilled Labor Market". ?In as much as this area in the Carolinas has a shrinking unskilled labor market - their economic marginalization continues
- Street Related Physical Ailments. ? I have experienced the stress of economic instability as I made my transition into the Atlanta area. ?I passed through this existence, but had a college degree to lift me up (once I got serious and focused). ?The thought of having NO special skills that would allow me to rise up, instead retaining this "hand to mouth" existence - inches away from getting the utilities turned off, losing use of a car or a speeding ticket that triggers a cascading effect on my personal budget - will produce stress that will kill you, when all HOPE is stripped away.
- The "Holl'in Church" as an Escape. ?The church culture in this place is a sight to see. ?Whereas I prefer an "education preacher" that will give me a list for me to live by and/or some scriptures to do further research on - the "Holl'in church" provides those who are stressed out a channel through which they can 'Catch The Spirit'. ? Everyone else in the church knows that - "her son just got arrested", "his daughter just asked him for $800 to get her transmission fixed", "her mother is ailing on her death bed". ? When you see the lead singer in the choir milking the chorus - incessantly repeating knowing that the woman who is weeping now will be spinning on the floor if he keeps egging her on - you know that the church is very perceptive about the people's emotions. ?Instead of providing a pathway for the people, in concert, to MANAGE their way out of their condition - they merely provide emotional coping skills - just as the people want.
- The "Dance Party" as an Escape.? ?It doesn't matter if you are 150 pounds overweight. ?When the weekend comes and there is time for some stress relief they go to the club and dance the latest line dance. ?"Blurred Lines" seems to be the summer time hit.
I opened this Part 2 with this bit of insight because it allows you to see what I learned this past week:
MY VIEWS ARE ASKEW FROM WHAT MOST BLACK PEOPLE LIVE BY OR AGREE WITH
I don't know who brought up the subject of "Obamacare" as we were watching football but this set off the very same conversation that I noted last year - just prior to the "Democratic National Convention" in Charlotte: ?My extended family are DEMOCRATS. ?They THINK, LIVE and ARE everything that the Democratic Party and Progressive have framed todays events as.
- They are the epitome of "The Uninsured" that need the Obamacare subsidy to receive health care
- When the conversation turned to the "North Carolina Republicans" - their blood boiled. ? The REPUBLICANS cut UNEMPLOYMENT benefits.
- The NC Republicans cut food stamps
- An SC resident told of her attempts to get food stamps and how the processor was rude to her. ?
- Several of them were out on "Disability" due to the ailments mentioned above
- When the Marines at Camp LeJeune sent notice of contaminated water on the base - a family member who was a marine indicated that he was first in line to join the lawsuit - even though he had no signs of injury
Just as I told you about a family member who attended the DNC and then went to the "Fox New" broadcast booth to ask "Why Are You Here!!!!????" - proving that she was a fully immersed Democrat - who assumed that "MSNBC" (for example) had her best interest in mind - as well as the rest of the Democrats .....................I learned again that this consciousness extends beyond DNC attendance.
I Saw "Maintenance" And A Consumer Consciousness But Little DEVELOPMENT
To those who remind me that "Black people have been WAITING FOR HEALTH CARE for a long time" as their justification for the support of "Obamacare" - my primary rebuttal is to have them note that there was not PASSIVE WAITING.
Black people have been INVESTING THEIR VALUABLES in support of the present prevailing POLITICAL ORDER over our communities. ? The fact that, instead of newly christened physicians, community based financing - or best of all a DISRUPTIVE HEALTH CARE PROVISION SYSTEM cast at the Black Community level has quenched the demand that they speak of - WE INSTEAD have a FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED health insurance scheme - should make more Black people make note of how much they have been used over the past 50 years.
The fatal mistake of the "Embedded Confidence Man" Black leadership is that they have summarily fused the BLACK COMMUNITY STANDARD OF LIVING to the UNITED STATES SOVEREIGN DEBT.
Without missing a step - those who compelled "Americanized Blacks" to vote for a local take over of the key "Human Resource Development Institutions" - only to assume control yet fail to develop our people - they are now making a NATIONAL RUN for "Nationalized Social Justice". ? This opportunism based diversion scheme understood how "Americanized Blacks" think, knowing that they prefer consumer satisfaction based upon the COMMAND FROM THEIR VOTE - to any force that dares to demand that they DENY THEMSELVES FROM IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION as a means of building up the disciple and governance necessary to make longitudinal change.
ObamaCare / The Debt Ceiling / The Shutdown - IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MATTER
The notion that any decrease in US Credit Rating might result from the antics that are going on in the US Congress is ridiculous. ??
The same federal government that creates a fake "Wal-Mart Corporation" (In valuation) every 2.5 months as the Federal Reserve generates $85 billion in fake money every month - is what we all need to be focusing upon.
Think about the VALUE that the consumer market receives from an "Apple Inc", "Wal-Mart", General Motors" or "General Electric". ? ?
Now reconcile these valuations with the knowledge that the federal government creates such VALUATION just to maintain its operations.
(ie: There is no "Hoover Dam", "Intercontinental High Speed Rail Line" or "Nuclear Fusion" created". ?This is just BASIC OPERATION OF GOVERNMENT).
For the Black American the THREAT is even greater.
For us to matriculate through this AMERICAN EXPERIENCE with mostly CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT with this society - is the greatest sign of having taken "Your Eye's Off Of The Prize".
THERE IS NO "SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE" Beyond What YOU ORDER YOURSELF TO PRODUCE INSIDE OF YOUR COMMUNITY CIRCLE
Think about the confines of "Social Justice".
A political operative who assisted in the political takeover of Newark, Philly and Detroit is able to take to the microphone and stake out a strategy for "SOCIAL JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE".
We all know that this is an indictment against his (right-wing) enemy and that this is a ploy to sustain "Congregational Unity". ?As the congregation is riled up to fight the outward fight - NONE OF THEM are going to take a step back and note that this NATIONAL FIGHT was preceded by a victorious LOCAL STRUGGLE MOTION. ? ?
Despite the fact that the same terms had been used in the run up to local power - WHEN THE VICTORY WAS OBTAINED:
- There was NO "Social Justice Received"
- The Rank and File DONATED THEIR VALUABLES into the fight
- The Embedded Confidence Men took to the mic and told the masses all that they have done to FIGHT FOR THEM
Yet - as the masses remain aggrieved and in desire of a better standard of living - in their desperation - they are agreeable to STRUGGLE MORE!!!
"Social And Economic Justice" needs a "larger container" that must be put on notice to live up to higher moral values. ?When the forces of "Social Justice' use the masses to obtain control over this container - THERE IS NO GUARANTEE that the masses will have been developed, able to sustain their desired standard of living, now that they have favorable people in power.
Instead they must go on another CONQUEST.
In that way "Social and Economic Justice" shares the same mindset of the European Explorers - who ALSO believed in divine providence as they fought their expansionary battles - the ends justifying the means.?
Source: http://withintheblackcommunity.blogspot.com/2013/10/white-money-and-black-progressive-rank.html
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