So I'm sitting here and wondering what I was gonna write about tonight and I looked in my mailbox and, like a miracle, there it was: this link sent to me by Sandy P. Thank you Sandy P! Here we have more of the wisom of Cynthia McKinney.
THE only solution to the predicament that all black people face world-wide is unity and a conscious and enlightened pursuit of our own self-interest.That is according to a former United States of America congresswoman, Cynthia Ann McKinney who delivered a lecture Tuesday Night at the Frank Collymore Hall as part of the Kwanzaa 2003 activities.
Dammit! My invitation must have been lost in the mail!
McKinney has the distinction of being the first African American woman from the state of Georgia to be elected to the American House of Representative, and served in the congress for five consecutive terms
Until her own constituents got fed up with her antics and voted her out in the Dimocrat primary. Even though her daddy said it was "the Jews. J-E-W-S" it turned out that it was black folks in her district who opted for the more sane Denise Majette.
and was one of the most popular black women in the United States.
Huh? WTF? Who came up with that bullshit? One of the most popular black women in the United States? Petal Barclay-Smith (Who the fuck names their daughter Petal?) you need to cut back on the dosage of whatever drug you are on.
McKinney also spoke on the conditions of black people and was candid in exposing the history of aggression by certain agencies of the US government against the black community in general, and against the leaders of the black liberation struggle in particular.
She must be talking about the Dimocrat Party and the social welfare state. Since the Great fucking Society, poverty has gone from 3% of the population to 12% of the population and the inner city has been particularly hard hit. The illegitimacy rate in the black community (One of the main causes of poverty) has risen to over 60%. So, I guess the gummint agencies Cynthia is talking about are Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Education. If the KKK had planned to destroy the black family and keep millions of blacks poor and dependent upon the gummint, they could not have done a better job than the Dimocrats and congresscritters like Cynthia McKinney.
The former congresswoman also explained how the US government’s counter-intelligence programme was used to target and decimate such progressive black organisations as the Black Panther Party and the United Slaves Organisation.
Petal, I realize that they might not teach you very much in Barbados, but the Black Panthers were not what I would call a "progressive organisation." And I have never heard of the United Slaves Organisation. Just as well.
While she warned the audience to be careful about the hidden hands of agent’s provocateurs among us, Mckinney said, “Its intent may be on causing division among leaders of the black movement and ultimately to derail our movement.”
Gotta watch out for those agent provocateurs like Condi Rice and Colin Powell.
In addition, she charged that we need to deal with the traitors in our midst if we are to build a movement that will be stable and respected.
The above mentioned Colin Powell and Condi Rice. Also Clarence Thomas, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder. Ya know, the people who think you should be judged by the content of your character and not the color of your skin. Geez. That sounds familiar. Who said that?
Sharing the night with the former congresswoman were two Barbadian exemplars – Robert Bobby Clarke, veteran Pan Africanist, socialist and trade unionist, and Viola Davis, veteran Afrocentric educator and Pan Africanist.
Never heard of them, but they probably preach the same old tired bullshit that the liberal black establishment preaches in the United States. All the successful black people that I work with thinks it's bullshit. They got to where they are by hard work.
However, Tuesday’s lecture was the fifth event of the week long Kwanzaa festival that began on December 26 with a celebration of the principle of Unity and the honouring of such exemplars as Minister Hamilton Lashley and Ms Sally Comissiong Attorney-at-Law.
I await the rest of the events with bated breath.
By the way, Cynthia took leave from her current job to attend the conference in Barbados.
Posted by denny at January 2, 2004 09:08 PM