To me,both the Republican and Democratic party are only two sides of the same coin each trying to manipulate the blacks for cosmesis.
You are precisely riight; and that is my position also.
As to what I believe is the best strategy, I think we need independent vehicles to expressx our interests, and at the same time work with either of the capitalist parties if it is clearly in our interest. Let me give you an example, I think the present Republican administration is a danger to the survival of the world, so when people ask me my position on the election I recommend that they vote against Bush. I don't however say vote for Kerry, although for most people, including most of our people that what they interpret it as...if the democrats would have at least taken a firm commitment to oppose this escalating war policy put in place by Bush and Co, a policy which threatens all of us with the possibilities of a global war, possibly even nuclear holocaust, the world would have been in a much safer place if there were a major party in this country that opposes this trend. But alas, since both major parties have the same pay master, and so as Kwame Nkrumah observed they are one and the same party this could not happen. But we Africans, wherever we might be in the world, whenever we have been alive, have faced situations equally dangerous and we have perservered. I am confident, not only in the wisdom of the majority of Africans, but in the wisdom of the majority of humanity, yes even including ta sizeable portion of he Europeans, that we will not let a few insane greedy cliques destroy human culture and our lovely little planet.
I think that you have misinterpret one part of my thesis, I do not support the Republicans, and my thesis is not that they should be the party of our choice. For example I understand full well why Africans voted for the democrats since FDR, it was the only optio that our people could see given that our economic position was already very bad, and the great depression made a terrible situation virtually unbearable. FDR comes along pitching a line that advocated some relief, and indeed his administration gave some relief, although history has shown that his motivation was based on his realization that if the government did not do something, there would have been a revolution in this country. FDR and his associates interpret history, things such as the Bonus March in the 20 when MacArthur, then part of the Hoover adminstration unleashed combat troops against WWI Vets demonstrating for a promised war bonus to feed their families, this shocked many people, the idea that vets, mostly white vets, would be shot and bayonetted and pursued by tanks and calvary in the streets of Washington DC; FDR and associates also properly read the handwriting on the wall, and they realized that another war world war was on the horizon and that the US had to reorganize, that is why he put so much money inbto things like the CCC (Citizen Conversation Camps) and had the Army administer them...thus preparing large numbers of unemployed men for the Army way of doing things....
I want to thank you for your very reasoned comments. It is very very welcome.
Roy Walker
