I gotta say, I'm quite frankly amazed at the the hate thrown at #BLM, There is a diary on today's list of diaries that quite frankly should be headlining over at RedState or some Klan R' US forum...I mean, I can't with that…
There's is a discussion bubbling in the Black Community about backing away from Progressive/Democrats...this backlash to #BLM and people performing actions on #BLM's behalf is quite frankly astonishing…
Right before Kings death he had a conversation with Harry Belafonte….the gist….
Midway through the Civil Rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. realized that the struggle for integration would ultimately become a struggle for economic rights. I remember the last time we were together, at my home, shortly before he was murdered. He seemed quite agitated and preoccupied, and I asked him what the problem was. “I’ve come upon something that disturbs me deeply,” he said. “We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I’ve come to believe we’re integrating into a burning house.”
That statement took me aback. It was the last thing I would have expected to hear, considering the nature of our struggle, and I asked him what he meant. “I’m afraid that America may be losing what moral vision she may have had,” he answered. “And I’m afraid that even as we integrate, we are walking into a place that does not understand that this nation needs to be deeply concerned with the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. Until we commit ourselves to ensuring that the underclass is given justice and opportunity, we will continue to perpetuate the anger and violence that tears at the soul of this nation.”
“I fear, I am integrating my people into a burning house.”
~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
Harry Belafonte Reflects on Working Toward Peace
His response to Harry Belafonte when he was asked what should be done...his response
“What should we do?” Dr. King told him that we “Become the firemen, Let us not stand by and let the house burn.”
Is it time to put down the firehose and walk away...let the house burn down...is it that time, just take the knock for the losses, walk away, rebuild....?
Stokely Carmichael in his Black Power speech on October 29, 1966 pointed out....
"..And the question is, if we are going to do that when and where do we start, and how do we start? We maintain that we must start doing that inside the white community. Our own personal position politically is that we don’t think the Democratic Party represents the needs of black people. We know it don’t. (applause) And that if, in fact, white people really believe that, the question is, if they’re going to move inside that structure, how are they going to organize around a concept of whiteness based on true brotherhood and based on stopping exploitation, economic exploitation, so that there will be a coalition base for black people to hook up with? You cannot form a coalition based on national sentiment. That is not a coalition. If you need a coalition to redress itself to real changes in this country, white people must start building those institutions inside the white community. And that is the real question, I think, facing the white activists today. Can they, in fact, begin to move into and tear down the institutions which have put us all in a trick bag that we’ve been into for the last hundred years?..."
BLACK POWER
After 50 years, can we concede he was right all along...should African Americans move on to other things...other spaces, whereas we may truly build a team of allies, who recognize and will fight for what needs to be done...first and foremost stopping the murders by Law Enforcement....without the hostile and racist overtones...
Or do we as Malcolm says in his speech in 1964...remain political chumps...
Is it time, heed the wisdom of those that came before us, take a fresh look, re-tool....I'm just asking....