Three Real Coons : Jesse, Al, And Louis entertain us Whiteys we need Nigras
like you.
Given the state of modern black leadership (it's about as useless as a
douche bag) on the left and right in this country, I am never more
amazed that whites in general are always ranting about Al, Jesse, and
Louis like they have black America on location and 38 million people
take their cues from what they say or do. Who made the decision that
these men were our leaders?
1. White America
2. The Media
3. Black America
4. Corporate America
Were these men elected to serve the needs of 38 million people or in a
convient though nasty way to keep Black Americans politically and
socially marginalized in this country like 'crabs in a barrel' to keep
black infighting contained so we will not ask serious questions on the
political, economic and foreign questions of the day. Last time I
checked, in 2004 I voted David Cobb for President so why is white
America of all political stripes except the progressive left and in
the case of Farakhan the racist right (most of the GOP) "bitching"
about Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton like they were the second coming
of Al- Gadea well I surmise two things and they are not pleasant in
the least bit.
No. 1 many White Americans (not all) need black coons of any political
stripe for entertainment and to spew their racial angst about Black
Folks like a crack addict needs a fix.
In modern American politics, there needs to be good to oppose evil and
in this milieu The three Coons fit nicely in this tale of
entertainment masquerading as real racial conversation. Three
associates of the giants of black political thought Martin Luther
King, Malcolm X, Adam Clayton Powell got the job done and changed
lives in the process. Jackson, Farakhan and Sharpton who have had
moments of brilliance intersect with controversies that would kill
(politically and personally) kill lesser men and they truly have
accomplished much for themselves personally, and fiancially for
themselves and families (like any politician/advocate) but frankly
they have not accomplished what those other men did for this country.
If anything they became a "Cult of Personality" in which whenever
there's racial animus of any sort, they either became the scapegoat
for this country's or the people "the media" would call for the black
take on the issues. And each one of them serves a very useful purpose
in this " racial dance of convenice". Jesse Jackson whom unfairly gets
most of the blame from all sides when race relations go bad (when
there are historical factors are the cause to many of these problems)
when Blacks in those communities understand ask for Jackson because
they know that he will shine a light on a serious problem that the
majority seems to want to ignore willfully.
And Jackson deserves the moniker for being a "race hustler" when he
interjects himself into situations that have no merit but him just
being an ambulance chaser looking for an angle like getting
corprorations to fund him and his family and friends (which people
like Pat Robertson does all the time) but somehow Jackson is 'shaking
down corporate America' for his own profit when he is simply playing
all sides for his own hustle whatever is on the table, If anything
righteous comes out of it fine, If it does not it better profit him
personally or in the eyes of public opinion good or bad and it has
lead to a 40 year career in being a pop culture 'civil rights' leader.
Al Sharpton is the agent provocactuer of the three because of the way
he came into the national spotlight. As a preacher and James Brown's
man Friday of sorts, he knows how to use the media as well as Jackson
FOR HIS OWN PURPOSES. Like Jackson he goes into communities where he
is asked by a victim of the family of a race- based crime to "lean on
these crackers" for justice, or whatever that means at the time using
the tatics of the civil rights era (marching public redress) and the
loud rhetoric of his mentors James Brown and Adam Clayton Powell to
forge an entertainment -type aura. And at times like early in his
career he may have linked himself with unsavory elements to make a
name for himself and it has lead to some unfortunate incidents.
Sharpton for all his early rabble rousing and imfaming rhetoric, has
positioned himself as the 'next pop culture' civil rights leader by
cleaning his image, losing weight and sticking the perm in a ponytail
running for President and doing some good things (Diallo, Puerto Rico)
but Tawanna Brawley will forever taint him in the eyes of many people
and his appeals to anti semitism will not win friends amongst the
fragments of the remainder of liberal black- Jewish alliance.
Louis Farakhan is a different animal and white America's great fear of
racial warfare or uniting with Al- Gadea or some terrorist group to
strike a blow for the 'black man in America". In Thomas Jefferson
'Notes of Virginia', He talks of the avenging angel of race and
revenge for this country's sins against the black population where
either on or both races would destroy themselves and Farahkan with his
military -style rhetoric represents white American angst at it's
worse. He hates white people but will do business with them and use
their politicians (particularly on the right) to his advantage. His
organization the Nation of Islam is not adverse to using racial
symbolism and their hatred of Jewish folk (they are Muslim of course)
and for all their racial posturing, chest thumping and what I call
talking racial smack, The NOI in nearly 80 years of being an
organization has never bombed a Jewish Temple killed any innocent
white civilians or started any covert/overt action against this
country. The fear that it will do that keeps white folk scambling
because "they speak so well"and they save the dregs of society that
mainstream black church leaders ignore because Christianity has failed
to empower these black men/women in any realistic way in the ghettos
and mainstream black leadership defacto policy of racial intergration
at the expense of real black empowerment has given Farakhan his
political power and pull amongst the many of the inner cities in this
country and solified his legacy as 'Black Boogey Man No.1".
The American media deserves the greatest blame for what I call the
'Real three Coons' because of the white media's laziness to really
study the nuances in Black American life and include people who are
just as intellectually viable on issues like foreign policy and
economics white editors whether through their racism or need to tweak
white angst for racial entertainment needs people like Jackson,
Sharpton, and Farakhan to stir the racial flames amongst whites (and
the rest of the populace) and to keep Black Americans politically
neutered to the teat of race instead of our full humanity as complex
citizens who can articulate any issue (just go to any babershop or
salon and view the complexity of political thought) When a college
professor(who's a conservative) said that he would like to see a
'debate' between Clarence Thomas and Jesse Jackson in my class, I
repsonded "Jackson's a minster' and knows nothing of the law I would
love to see Kimberle Lewis Crenshaw debate Thomas (who avoids any
contact or debate with real black judges who challege his record)she
would would cut his unqualified neocon ass into intellectual
splinters. He said he never heard of her or people like Adolph Reed,
writers like Norman Kelley, or Julianne Malveaux and then he tipped
his hand when he said that white people consider Jesse, Al, Louis
"real black leadership" and the talented intellectually like the ones
I described would just complicate the agrument and for whites like him
and theycouldn't handle people like those and would rather name drop
people like Shelby Steele, Walter Williams, Uncle "Thomas" Sowell and
the reverend "Jesse Peterson as the new black leaders who are 'brave'
I told him brave is a Sudanese Christian trying to stay alive in Dafur
these are just "Negroes talking Shit" I see no one trying to kill them
like they did King . Needless to say, he started pointing to other
people who were more in tune with his politics.
The public black and white needs people like the Three Coons to keep
racial tension and to stifle any real debate in this country on racial
issues that are as complex as America writing Aramaic with a history
that is just as sorted and messy. I don't blame Jesse, Al, and Louis
for assuming the mantle of "black leadership"and not doing anything in
the way of public policy because they don't have that type of power
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