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Politically, we can’t even make decisions that will benefit us as a body. Most of us align ourselves with the Democrats--a party that systematically put Black men out of the house courtesy of the Welfare system and created generations of women who raised Black children alone and then began to blame the fathers for being absent.On the other hand, the Republican Party has tacitly ignored the blatant racism and classism in its own party to get some of us to return to their side, while doing nothing for any of us.
We have true models to define our next phase of existence. Those models come from our history in America, and our history in Africa.
The African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress PAC) were Black governments, even when they had no true governing party. African Americans have no government and no governing party—the Congressional Black Caucus is toothless and impotent, governing nothing and not even attempting to.
The Black Anglo Saxon wants nothing more than to be embraced by mainstream America, while separating all ties with the Black Americans who are left at the bottom of society by generations of the cream rising to the top and flowing out of the community.
The Black Anglo Saxons first appeared as free slaves who were accepted in some quarters of white society and so began to pretend at assimilation while looking down at the Negroes they believed “chose” to be left behind.
These new Negroes disconnected from their people and even today, pronounce loudly that “I don’t know nothing ‘bout Africa.”
But Black Anglo Saxons perhaps got the biggest boost in membership after integration, when more Negroes than ever before were allowed into the white world, where they could pretend that they were no longer the same as those “lower economic people” left behind in the economically depressed urban areas all across America.
The Black Anglo Saxon has nerve enough to speak for their brethren left behind, claiming that they are economically disadvantaged because they simply “choose not to do better.” None of the bonehead Black Anglo Saxons has ever asked a Black man or woman in midst of economic depression if they truly have decided not to do better, because to speak for them makes it easier to ignore their need.
If a revolution comes from the impoverished and the strong and the young (and history has shown us that this is where revolutions come from), the first group to be eaten alive by such an animal should be the Black Anglo Saxons, who are more destructive than any seething white racist ever could be.
They are damaging us from the inside.
- Darryl James is an award-winning author who is now a filmmaker. His first mini-movie, "Crack," was released in March of 2006. He is currently filming a full length documentary. James’ latest book, "Bridging The Black Gender Gap," is the basis of his lectures and seminars. Previous installments of this column can now be viewed at www.bridgecolumn.com . James can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
