August 25th, 2018 Saturday
Town Crier Brother Tracy Gibson Expresses His Views on the Fallacy of Western Democracy & Comes Up with a Solution…
By Brother Tracy Gibson,
President, Chief and Founder of
Brother Tracy Gibson& Associates, Incorporated and Our
Five Subsidiaries. [ look under His blog at http://thepoliticsofREAL.
My Black People, My Black People. I am sure I am not the only one to come up with this or a similar idea. [ It is my hope and Prayer that a learned member of our Black community will steer me towards other theorists who have similar more established, and accepted views.
As Black North Americans we have come to radially accept the concept of a two-party system we call democracy. But the question is, is it really working for the Black majority of people. Is democracy working for our Black children, is democracy working for our Black poor people, is democracy working for our Black elders [ which I am one], is democracy working for our Black middle class, is democracy working properly for our Black middle income people & our Black [ as I am] Gay, Lesbian & or transgendered people,& is democracy working for Black disabled people [ as I also am.].
What if we slowed down just a bit& just asked the question & made the statement ``I’m tired of fighting the ``good fight’’ that has lasted from Sojourner Truth & Crispus Attucks, and from Rodney King [ the Black gentleman taxi driver who was beaten by police in Los Angeles ] to [ current Muslim Leader ] Louis Farrakhan. Why do we have to fight enemies at the ballot box every four years & it seems like when we win the radical right wing still gets to pull our victory apart & make every inch of victory an excruciating sum of more problems more than a true victory. This see-saw process has torn away at the fabric of true democracy and made a cruel joke out of the democratic process, which NEVER WORKED for Black people very much in the first place. The Tea Party seems almost to win when we win. It is like Tea or Iced Tea itself is used in some convoluted & obnoxious way to pull the fuse on our democratic process & our so-called democracy.
Why can’t we pull the plug with them [ our supposed enemies ] & find a system where everyone wins. Can we have a tandem system existing, even intermingling at times & at points, that allows Progressive and even revolutionary democrats to not take ALL in a victory, but maybe even have a separate election on the First Tuesday in November which in 2019 falls on my birthday like it did in 1956 when I was born.
The radical right wing of the Republican Party [ which many white media commentators said would be unable to muster enough votes to ever win a national election after 2008 ], and their supporters like the Ku Klux Klan, the John Birch Society, the Reaganites, the Log Cabin Club, and the Birthers, get what they want & we [ the loyal democrats, the Green Party, the Workers World Party& other such liberal & Radical left strongholds ] get what we want as well.
Perhaps there is a need to publically elect Our Federal Supreme Court& limit their terms in office to 10 years so we don’t have rule of people who are way out of line with either liberals or conservatives for such a long time – sometimes an adult lifetime; outlaw gerrymandering -- no matter who it helps or hurts & come up with clearly defined rules & procedures to draw district lines for elections; outlaw gentrification in our territories so decent people can have decent, stable places to live at a reasonable cost; pay our taxes to the Native Americans instead of war mongers, [ It is my belief that the Native Americans are the true Americans, the true four-fathers & fore-mothers, & more than deserve established leadership credentials , taxation powers & government development authority. ] This Way the environmentalists can really build a clean-water system where we reside & keep the oceans& the air clean without an appointed captain of industry receiving a cabinet positions where regulations for the environment are established.
Native peoples must not be forced to live on a small portion of the very land that was stolen from them by the european. The often arid reservations they live on are too often havens for poverty, poor education, alcoholism, despair and hopelessness for Native Peoples. As humane, politically conscious Black People we must not let this go on. Doctor Maulana Karenga, the founder of Kwanzaa, once said we as Black People will never receive our Reparations until the Native Americans receive theirs first. We can change our own status by creating self-awarded REPARATIONS, but sometimes we are not focusing on the correct issues. A large part of this beautiful land must go to People of Red and Black heritage – the Black People and the Native Americans. We all, Black and Red, deserve much of the material wealth that was stolen from Native People just like Black People deserve self-REPARATIONS & government proclaimed REPARATIONS as well. Black People and Native People richly deserve healthy, robust, productive lives in this land or anywhere else we choose to live.
With White-led Republicans stealing votes through various processes including tossing out viable voting registrations; intimidation styled after that which took place during the 1960’s Civil Rights era; outrageous gerrymandering; & out & out stealing elections as they did in 2000, 2004, & 2016 [ after eight years of the Barack Obama Administration], it is no wonder that people are losing faith and confidence in our political and election systems.
Don’t just let the Republicans have it at the polls every four years while they refuse to work cooperatively, with decency, honestly & for the best of most people in the state our country is presently in. Instead give them what they want, like Texas & Florida for starters, but make sure them getting what they want doesn’t recede us building the great, open, free, ethical, justice-oriented society we want and have been working for since the days of the abolitionists, those early Black people who fought for their freedom, and Native people who fought against the Long Walk and Western settlers.
At this point I must mention that about six months ago I joined the Republican Party. Before you groan and change the channel, I did it to expose the Grand Ole Party [ GOP ] for its racism & its inherent unfairness in owning & cow-towing to business interests as opposed to authentically opening up the process so access to Financial Capital to all North Americans can be achieved. North America [ which I call Turtle Island ], needs a fair process that would NEVER allow Black People in Philadelphia, for example, to consist of 43 % of the population, but only own less than 3 % of the businesses [ statistics culled from the Brother Charles Ellison on Reality Check at 4 P.M. Monday through Thursdays on Philadelphia’s WURD 900 AM and 96.1 FM ]. There are inherent biases in our present system that seem immune to voting, protest, demonstrations, pressure from Black politicians, boycotts and even more severe means. They are NOT immune to our supporting a new self- proclaimed positive Black Capitalism with us as Black People, with security for our places of business in place and our minds hardwired to self-LOVe and the Self- perpetuation of our Black selves and our Black families. If I am not mistaken Brothers Malcolm X, H. Rap Brown and Kwame Ture spoke of these measures several years ago. We have, as Black Grass Roots People, sometimes been fighting for acceptance & LOVe from white people who have more of a record for threating us in a incredibly miserable fashion as opposed to ever showing authentic LOVe. Even when we are foolish enough to marry white.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to work towards a system that authentically lifts all boats by really accessing growth Capital, sharing space for Black People to own businesses, put a cap on white-owned commercial property development in Black communities, authentically spearheading the development of a public, private& charter system for education that really works according to Black educators and Black teachers from our neighborhoods;& help our Black churches, the Black Nationalists, the Wealthy Black community,& Black professionals to politically embrace each other while putting our differences as Black people aside [ Malcolm X]?
The answer is we must open our thinking & work towards such a system instead of fighting enemies on the political battlefield every four years with minimal results as rich people of every hue seem to just get rich from our efforts. [ Why is it that the politicians come through our inner cities and attend our churches at election time and feed money right back into the established media with their ads instead of supporting Black newspapers like PNB, The Sunday Sun, the Philadelphia Tribune, & The Neighborhood Leader, and WURD itself for that matter. ]
The meager results in recent elections with Black voting levels at 12 % or 24 % is showing that Black People have an inherent feeling that something just isn’t working correctly * & voting Republicans out is not really a lasting, effective, consistent, workable, and power-enriching solution. All that seems to do – voting Republicans out – is get us more Democrats who think their ass IS a hole in the ground as they work almost as diligently as Republicans to dash Black hopes, dreams and Prayers for a decent living and prosperity on these Western shores.
Radio Host Shomari -- Shomari Show Fridays from 1 P.M. to 4 P.M. – on WURD 96.1 FM – Black Philadelphia Talk Radio – has begun to propel us into a new territory & He has met with success. Not exactly what I have proposed here [ read my blog at http://thePoliticsofREAL.
Brother Tracy Gibson’s book ``Let the Children Gather,’’ is available at www.LuLu.Com. For $10.00 It is a book of revolutionary poetry geared towards helping our Black youth become more generous, productive, constructive members of our Black community. He will be the featured guest speaker at Men’s Day celebrations at Unity Fellowship Christ Church on September 23rd, 2018. Call this number for more details : 1 [ 215 ] 823 – 9985.
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