House Negroes in Black History

House Negroes in Black History
The Congressional Black Caucus had no intention of fighting the appointment of Alberto Gonzales as U.S. attorney general. He will be over the enforcement of civil rights laws and the management of federal prisons. The Bush regime has already gutted the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Gonzales will complete the Bush regime’s mission.
Several million Blacks are already in the prison-industrial complex and with newly-drafted and soon-to-be implemented, sentencing laws, most young Blacks will be in concentration camps by 2010. No other country has a similarly, egregious record of incarcerating its residents. By blindly supporting the CBC, Blacks are endorsing their own oppression.
We have betrayed our ancestors. Whatever opinion you may have of whites, they do respect their ancestors. Law professors have repeatedly voted Chief Justice Roger Taney as one of the leading Supreme Court jurists. Taney wrote the treatise on white supremacy.
You will find no Black elected official seeking to erect a statue of Nat Turner on the National Mall. Every Black elected official and every Black leader views Turner’s acts as terroristic. The CBC has even refused to demand that a statue of Crispus Attucks be erected on the National Mall. Moreover, no Black museum exists on the National Mall.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has openly expressed its opposition to the Gonzales nomination. Gonzales should be on trial for war crimes. He urged the Bush regime to adopt Justice Clarence Thomas’ warped definition of torture. It did.
Thomas believes that prisoners have no rights under either the Eighth Amendment with respect to citizens or aliens or the Geneva Conventions in the case of “enemy combatants.” He expressed his approval of prison torture in a 1991 Supreme Court decision. Slaves, and prisoners alike, should be subject to the whims of their captors.
We still have no right to political representation nor representation in the courts. We fail to understand or appreciate the personal sacrifices many of our ancestors made to secure our right to enjoy legal and political representation. In a republican form of government, our plight is similar to prisoners of war.
Malcolm X taught us about China’s prescription for Uncle Toms. China is now a creditor of the United States. In our community, we openly and, sometimes, enthusiastically permit a fifth column to manipulate our political direction.
The models for this embrace of traitors are Nazi Germany and house Negroes on the plantation. History will indeed repeat itself. We are the only group that currently coddles sell-outs. House Negroes stage rallies and we fill their coffers. This is called financing our own oppression.
Kwame Ture was correct. The Black masses are in dire need of political education and political intelligence. We are too excitable. Whenever an HNIC runs for higher office, we get excited. Nobody has the slightest hint of who controls these HNICs. Today, mayoral politics is about divide and conquer and our potential, self-imposed leader in New York City is C. Virginia Fields.
If an HNIC is reading from a script, we lose our minds. It has never dawned on us that his or her appearance on television has been orchestrated by white supremacists. See e.g. Armstrong Williams reading from a Bush script. In the meantime, nobody is keeping a scorecard of an HNIC’s real and substantial achievements. If we did, the score would be zero.
The CBC sold us out when it humbly requested a meeting with Bush 43 on January 26 to sip some tea and eat some biscuits. It will not be heard from again over the next four years. For HNICs, it only takes thirty pieces of crumbs with hot water as a chaser to put the knife in our backs.
There was also no outrage in the Black community when Kwesi Mfume preceded the CBC to the White House. Once he heard about the IRS’ investigation into the NAACP after Julian Bond’s annual speech, Mfume was ready to cop a plea and beg for mercy from Bush and company. He may also have to account for whom he was chasing on tax-exempt funds.
Interestingly, what goes around comes around. The NAACP demanded in 1988 that I be disbarred for my representation of Tawana Brawley. It gloated when I was indefinitely suspended from the practice of law for refusing to produce the Brawley files. I would no longer be a thorn in the side of white supremacists.
The NAACP was present on November 30, 1987 when Tawana freely spilled her recollections to law enforcement officials. Afterwards, it allowed Tawana to be falsely accused of refusing to cooperate with law enforcement officials by Robert Abrams while it secretly took public funds from Dutchess County.
Steven Pagones was an assistant district attorney in Dutchess County. His girlfriend was an FBI agent appointed by Rudolph Giuliani to head the federal civil rights probe. This misconduct contributed to my indefinite suspension for fingering Pagones. Eliot Spitzer is still sitting on the incriminating evidence.
Now, the IRS is demanding that the NAACP produce its books which should also unwittingly reveal the Dutchess County payment. This happened before in Alabama in the 1950’s and it is happening now while Cong. Charles Rangel is the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee. This is called political presence and not political representation. If he had power, there would be no threat of an IRS investigation.
It was reported recently that Hazel Dukes, who chairs the state NAACP in New York, has given the NAACP’s Ossining, New York chapter the boot for supporting Mumia Abu-Jamal. When will Blacks ever form and support their own human rights organizations?
Whites apparently established the NAACP to block Black liberation and Black sovereignty. Joel Spingarn was in military intelligence and he recruited W.E.B. DuBois who was diligent in his efforts to bring down Marcus Garvey.
Dukes and current Judge Laura Blackburne publicly called for my disbarment for competently and zealously defending a rape victim. The judicial establishment is now hounding Blackburne. When will house Negroes learn that we are all in the same boat?
Bernard Burden’s mother met with the FBI recently in the presence of the NAACP. This should be our first clue as to the progress of the investigation in this Coweta County lynching. No attorney in Georgia could be retained to stand with Burden’s mother during the FBI interview.
The NAACP is seeking to preserve the status quo and it has refused to provide Burden’s mother with an attorney. Members of Congress from Georgia should be contacted and urged to demand a civil rights probe by the U.S. Department of Justice. Politics must be based on a quid pro quo.
As long as the Black masses remain silent while house Negroes sell us out, Blacks will be disrespected around the world. To make matters worse, we continue to endorse and finance our own oppression while being scared to death to exercise any political and economic power. As Cong. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. asked, “What’s in our hands?” Now, it is time to use it.