Juan Williams, a 21st Century Uncle Tom some say

Juan Williams, 21st Century Uncle Tom some say, he’s more a paid shill for all that’s, wrong with black Punditry, I say this because, Uncle Tom is to far above his intellect and fox fixed news pay grade, with NPR on the side

6/6/2008

By Bruce H. Scroggins


Juan misses the new obstacles present for the 25% of blacks in poverty today, whom the Bill Cosby's and the Juan Williams of today decry as “not keeping up their part of the bargin,” those who can't do criticize and I’ am not saying Juan and Bill aren't contributing, from their wealth to worthy causes, that’s not what I’ am saying.

I’ve read some now, consistent and persistent criticisms of all things Obama and black, Juan goes from one thing to another in the black community, locked into the past, he knows what happened, but he keeps trying to view and explain the present black communities failures in performance, through the Brown v Board of Education and the flawed Civil Rights era accomplishments.

I say flawed because, so many believe these accomplishments were the be all and end all answers for the black community, now and forever. If they were not flawed, every 25 years, blacks would not have to ask and beg Congress to sign the Civil Rights Act, to keep the right to vote.

“Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty? Where are the marches demanding good schools for those children -- and the strong cultural reinforcement for high academic achievement (instead of the charge that minority students who get good grades are "acting white")? Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed "gangstas," minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?”

Juan, Bill have you lived in the black communities lately, no you haven’t, you haven’t seen the black community, you’ve seen what the black community is portray on TV and in the Press, you seen the few that have risen to the level of media, where you two live and you decry there excesses.

I live in a black community dying because, our mentors have moved out of the black community, because of guns and a false sense, that all white schools are better than the community schools that raised them and gave them the education to make a better life for them selves. These black upwardly mobile and accomplish to some degree black families, that are part of the root and cause of the dying black community, that has no voice for change, no black males to march and attend Ward and Council meeting, to be the face of change in the black community, down to little league, or a recitel.

Bill, Juan you both decry the Gangster Rap and the flaunting of black woman, the lack of Parenting and the lack of the use of the tools, built on and in our tortured past, through the lives and blood of the Civil Rights hay days, well what’s left in the black community is the old parents who sacrificed and marched to give their children, the better education, that those children used to move out of the black community.

To this day, the City’s mostly white town fathers, listen to the black communities cry’s and still do not do what they want, drugs and dealers are entrenched and those upwardly mobile blacks, the few who come back to the black community, mostly to go to church and hand out turkeys on thanks giving and share some money, but putting their real faces on the problems, they're absent.

No mentors but the aging grandparents and grandmothers and activist born and staying in the community, are all that’s left, you ask why no marches, there’s your answer. The Black preachers are all afraid of the blowback that the white press has played and reverse racist is there new tool, even white voices, announcing any “liberation Theology,” from the degrading facts of life in the black community, are assaulted with racism to shut them down and keep it out of the any discussion.

The problems are new and need a new tactics, coupled with some of the tried and true tactics of the past, I’ am not against using what worked, but those tactic alone cannot attack and win, in these days.

“Black Quilt, Black Blame, White quilt, White Blame, all have to be on the table and we have, stay at the table, all of you pop-in-jays need to butt out.”

Both of you men, say nothing about the problems faced by a new generation of Poverty and the abject lack of education and the re-enforced institutional and systemic barriers erected by those in power from City Hall,s Financial Institutions, School Boards, to the Police Departments. None of which have supported those left fighting for the communities, only our Seniors and the Activist, flail around, unsupported by those who are our strongest.

I do understand frustration, but to spend your echo chamber time and bully pall pits attacking blacks lack of answers for the problems faced, is low, you both need to get down on the ground and stay there, not just your money is needed, don’t run back to your Cush homes and white and black friends willing to listen to your cry’s and complaints about your people.

Stay in the that poor black community, showing the way and make your presence the bulwark and draw the strength of the black community back to be the face and mentors needed, the voices in the Town Halls and Wards and City Councils, Parishes and yes, SPEAK, PREACH and LEAD the MARCH, ORGANIZE the MARCHES, shut the fart-up and LEAD.

In all words, get your asses on the ground and lead until you’re drawn up on your cross.

No, Really what is a Litmus TEST and is it for black leadership only?

What is a LITMUS TEST?

3/02/2008

By Bruce H. Scroggins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litmus_test_(politics)

A litmus test is a question asked of a potential candidate for high office, the answer to which would determine whether the nominating official would choose to proceed with the appointment or nomination.

This is what Tim Russert did to Barack Obama in the last debate and Tim is un-apologetic about it, it appears racist in content and nature, because he dose not ask these litmus test questions of WHITES, he dose not press, the question, over and over, to white’s of any gender.

Obama rejected past present and future and he repeatedly rejected, consecutively for Tim Russerts, as if Tim Russerts repeatedly ask the same litmus test question, as if Tim didn’t hear Obama, or didn’t understand. Finally, after enlisting Hillary, for additional litmus test pressure Obama rejected and denounced, I can only guess Tim (litmus test) Russerts, finally heard Obama.

CNN and Wolf Blitzer for one, on the Late Edition 2/02/08, with, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, set up good bigotry vs. bad bigotry and supported good bigotry, making no definitive distinction, except white bigotry is good from most whites and bad bigotry from most, or all blacks is bad, Wolf left it there.

Bill O’Reilly, spoke of a Lynching Party if he found Michelle Obama to be an angry woman, Don Imus was fired for this bigotry, but all media has circled the wagons and are IGNORING this blatant assault, even the FCC has no interest in applying even investigation, into a clear violation, I filed a complaint, with the FCC, nothings happened.

And even if the FCC dose something, the MEDIA is clearly the enablers, there abject; silence is

SPEAKING VOLUMES IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN AMERICA AN IN OTHER COMMUNITIES.

What say you; ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, AP, ROUITERS, BBC, fox fixed news.

The Big Question: When did experience become a Liability?

THE BIG QUESTION: When did experience become a big liability? Here’s your answer.

01/08/2008

By Bruce H. Scroggins

Bill Clinton and Hilary and Richardson, have ask this question, or said as much in protestation, during this season and it has come up more and more, well I believe someone needs to answer this question, out in the open.

Since 2000, Democrats and Independents have watched in horror, as Bush and Republicans ram through policy after policy, Tax cut after tax cuts, all to the rich, listen to promise after promise followed by, failure after failure, domestic programs for the poor and the middle class cut to the bone and taxed to the hilt, watched health Insurance go up and all put on the workers, by the tax (cutted) rich employers, watched the new 110th Congress, in thin control of Democrats… Now let say this right… CAVE, FOLD, CONPITULATE, ENABLE, GO BACK ON PROMISES, MAKE EXCUSE after EXCUSE for why Traditional long time, EXPERIENCED Democratic leadership, fail to … DELIVER.

Experience MY GRANDMOTHER

America is up to HERE with experience, you have continued the STATUS QUO and were sick to the MOON, with the same old, Washington, were sick of Democrats, in name only. When you say your going to fight and you don’t fight, when the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the Rule of Law is folded, spindled and mutilated, and your answer to us, about impeachment is; it’s a distraction and, I don’t want to be seen as “partisan,” what your saying to those who elected you is, I won’t follow the “Rule of law” I refuse to do what you want me to do and you can’t make me.

Well yes we can, it’s called a primary and a GENERAL ELECTION and your, so out of here, yes you did some good things, but that is not the grounds for you now tell us, I know better than you and you have to back me, no we don’t and you will get the … NO WE DON”T.

And no Obama did not compare you too them, Hilary, he did how ever compare your; I did this good and that good, but when we speak of your failure, you don’t want us to count that, only what was good, no we will show your complicity in how things are NOW and if your weak, your weak NOW. We will hold you accountable, we will change.

Our Black Males need their Dads, they need a father

Our Black Youth are GRIEVING for their lack of fathers, the highest title and authority any and every man can have, is to be a father.

By Bruce H. Scroggins

10/14/2007

The destruction of the Black Family began with the Black male, or the black male was the target of the destruction. America’s families were created to sustain a village, a community, a race, a people, a nation. The domino effect of the destruction of the male, the black male, is and will be the downfall, ultimately of any nation, or race, or people.
2.2 million Of incarcerated humans, are just under 1 million black males, all since the Brown V Board of Education came down:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954),[1] is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, by declaring that state laws which established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9-0) decision stated, in no uncertain terms, that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, this victory thereby paving the way for integration and the Civil Rights Movement.

A village, a community, a race, a people cannot stand, if the family is not kept intake, with in the Community, all will fall apart, or succumb to all sorts of devastation, from predatory attacks of all kinds, the absence of guidance, the lack of love, the lack of foundation, from the adults who brought you into life, is devestating.

Youth look first to those responsible for them being alive, they first look to the Father and the Mother, the parental unit is designed to nurture, protect, lead, teach and guide the child from there vulnerable state of childhood, into, boyhood, or girlhood and is their when young womanhood and young manhood, to young adulthood, to manhood and womanhood, each of these “hoods,” and the parent uses boundaries and love to teach, it is require for a child’s development.

A healthy child’s development, must be First for the parents and for the community, it is required, in a large number, for the majority today and in ever increasing and in even greater numbers, instead of the shrinking numbers as it is today.

1/3 of the homeless today, are black males and the majority of black males come out of jails, unable, to get a job, or start a family. Yes systemic cause are at the roots, but the part a father has and is most crucial is, he must stand his ground and position, regardless of the systemic catalyst, like racism, and hopelessness, drug dealing and using, father less love, rudderless families, our leading our black males to and through a loveless life, waiting to go to jail or worst death, thinking materialism and being abusive misogynist, wearing bling, riding on 26’ dubs, is an answer.

A father is a higher Authority and title than the CEO, of GM, or being President of the United States of America, or the greatest Rapper the world has ever heard, or the greatest Basketball Player, or Football Player, fathers are Hero’s, even the father, who has paid a societal price, for their choices and comes back to the community looking to make a difference has a place, America cannot afford to lose another generation of Black males and we must redeem the males we have, we must provide a way and a place for them to show up.

This a clarion call; No more losing parental guidance, no more separations, the Stepfathers, Godfathers, Grandfathers, Uncles, all the ways down to, yes I repeat the Uncles, they must be brought into the place of leadership in our families, in our Communities, in the village, yes in you and me.

Where is the Leadership?

Where is the Leadership?

By: Gayle Smaller

01/03/2008

We as black Americans in the Twin Cities are in a state of emergency and all of our citizens seem to be aware of this fact except the so-called leaders of the black community. We have old leadership and new leadership, but they all seem concerned with the same problem; how to get their organizations funding and their names in the news for some random act of mock leadership. We as blacks in Minnesota are under constant attack from the same sources that are supposed to be serving us.

We are under attack by the police department, miss-educated by the school systems (if educated at all), bounced around from agency to agency and pimped by social service…

So, I ask where is the leadership?

Minneapolis, over the past thirty years, has been a city that has hand picked the leaders for the community. Minnesota has strategically chosen who to fund, as well as whose face to put the microphone in. During this time, a great number of our so-called leaders have slipped on the pay off, and many act as snitches.

Where were these individuals when the police shot Abuka Sanders? Where were they when they were jacking Natalie's downtown district? Where were they when Code FORE was being passed? We have been dealing with these same sellouts over the last twenty years and nothing has come from it except a couple new programs receiving funding that nobody seems to have heard of in the community.

We need leaders that can stay in touch with the street and communicate with the young brothers and sisters, not these wannabe little Jesse Jackson's posing as pastors, educators and activists with one true motive—to pimp those in need of help and direction. We as concerned citizens can no longer allow these buffoons to be in charge of our communities, which have only declined since they have been in the positions to lead.

The community is a reflection of its leadership, and our communities are falling apart. The drug corners are over populated, the prisons and county jails are full of young black men who have no role models to turn to or leaders that they can count on for help or guidance. We are in need of programs that are concerned with more than funding. If we continue to let these house niggers lead us, they will lead us right back into slavery.

As fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, it is hard to find time to be active in our community but we must realize that if we do not find time we will have nothing to look forward to in the future. We must find time to be active because preserving the community is our responsibility. Although are leadership has been shady, it is our fault as well for not holding them accountable for their actions.