Black voters' loyalty to the democrats has not been out of fierce loyalty
anyway, but out of pragmatism. I think there's a good chance that the dems
insistence on "reconciliation", a clear bit of bourgeois damage control (as
opposed to partisan damage control), and the Reno Justice Dept's
chicken-shit response to voting rights violations, will give lots of black
voters pause, and for many will be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
The streets are calling. Unfortunately, the left is still a small and
heterogeneous mob in the US, and the black left has been reluctantly
spending a lot of its political capital trying to work with white
progressives--and neglecting poor black communities. This is where the
real anger is growing, and in the absence of a clearly articualted black
progressive alternative, many have been and will continue to turn to
nationalism--not a bad thing in itself, but very reactionary in the form of
the NOI. I think we can expect thousands of Ben Chavis conversions. And
this will spell the beginning of the end for the democratic party. If the
Republicans can hold their coaltion together, this will strengthen them
immeasurably, which also strengthens their proto-fascist faction as an
influence group. All in all, a very depressing scenario.
"I am not a Marxist."
-Karl Marx
"Mask no difficulties."
-Amilcar Cabral
"Am I to be cursed forever with becoming
somebody else on the way to myself?
-Audre Lorde
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