Challenge to the Black Bourgeoisie by Bro. Jalil

[nattyreb]

i found this great piece over at Bro. Jalil Muntaqim's site, it's in a few brief parts like this one and you can read the rest over at FREE JALIL: Jalil Muntaqim Political Prisoner (as well as his "Musings on U.S. Judicial Repression"), please take the time, it's very well worth it!!
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(2/21/08)
A Challenge to the Black Bourgeoisie
and Black Progressives – Which Way Forward?!

This article represents the political thinking of Jalil A. Muntaqim, and not a joint statement from the San Francisco 8.

Will the CIA knock off Barack Obama for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, after Barack Obama which way forward? After the political death of Barack Obama, what will the left do? How will the Democratic Party sustain a populist political posture? How will both the country and international political arena respond to an American reality absent the promise of a Barack Obama presidency? Because he has been anointed in the spirit of JFK, will Barack Obama suffer the same fate?

The illusion that Barack Obama in the White House will represent a real change ultimately will result not in his physical demise, rather his political death by virtue of the façade. The question then must be what does Obama presidency represent and mean to people of color, especially Black people? Some will argue that it is empowering, it is the fulfilling of Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., dream, the breaking down of institutional racism, and further offer to the international community America’s promise is true.

Unfortunately, too many Black Americans believe that the election of a Black president represents a dramatic change in American politics. I disagree! While the election and seating of a Black Commander in Chief in the White House challenges the sensibilities of a country whose racial and cultural history has been one of Black ostracism and denial, the body politics of business as usual will not be challenged or change. Barack Obama presidency essentially represents the power-elite in black face, and this reality is a blatant affront to any true prospects of serious change that would improve the socio-economic and political conditions of Black people and poor people of color. In Black Skin White Mask, Franz Fanon offered that Black Americans may suffer the psychological vestiges of chattel slavery, a trauma that imposes restrictions to free their selves psychologically from the culture of American racist political oppression as presently governed by the plutocracy. If true, absent a dynamic national Black agenda that addresses and defines Black empowerment, this would demand reassessment of Black support of Barack Obama presidency.

For example, when considering the economic figures of 2005, the wealthiest 0.1 percent of the country's population had nearly as much income as all 150 million Americans who make up the lower economic half of the country. Of each dollar people earned in 2005, the top ten percent got 48.5 cents, the highest percentage since 1929, just before the Great Depression. Given this reality, and that Barack Obama's campaign has been finance by corporate sponsors and the power-elite, Oprah Winfrey notwithstanding, the prospect is that socio-economic and political conditions will worsen according to the dim economic future of U.S. , Inc. globalization.1 Further, the greater likelihood is that Black apathy will increase with the mistaken belief Black folks has reached the pinnacle of socio-economic political achievements with Obama's presidency. A challenge from the Black left for fundamental change will become impotent in fear of being charge of attempting to undermine the first Black president.

1 The Act to Provide a Government for the District of Columbia , Section 34 of the Forty-First Congress of the United States , Session III, Chapter 61 and 62, enacted on February 21, 1871, states: “The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a corporation, whose jurisdiction is applicable only in the ten-mile-square parcel of land known as the District of Columbia and to what ever properties are legally titled to the UNITED STATES, by its registration in the corporate County, State, and federal governments that are under military power of the UNITED STATES and its creditors.”

Pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. 3002 (15) (a), the United States is a Federal Corporation. Title 28 U.S.C. 3002 (15) (3), further informs that all departments of the U.S. , is part of the corporation. The Commerce Department acquires birth certificates via county and state governments, which contractually, makes these live births ultimately commerce property of the U.S. Corporation, with a monetary value attached to each certificate.

To continue reading Jalil's Challenge, go to FREE JALIL: A Challenge to the Black Bourgeoisie and Black Progressives