Well I wrote this sort of thing once before. During what I call the "Quite a lot of persons" march. I guess it needs to be updated. We had the State of the Black America symposium Saturday. A sort of symposium on black empowerment. That would be a good thing. It was to be about black Americans formulating their own plan for social, and economic advancement. It was just like Corretta Scott King's funeral was going to be Just a funeral. It didn't happen.
We had the usual Bush Bashing, and the Federal government being portrayed as tyrants that are keeping the black man from achieving Social advancement. What I find Ironic is that those who cheer the words of Farrakhan and Sharpton who accuse this administration of conspiring against them continue to depend on them. If you charge the government is letting you down or plotting your down fall then why would you expect them to take care of you during a hurricane?
The conference for all of it's firebrand speakers lacked the one thing the black population in this country need more than anything else.
Accountability.
Instead of charging that America needs to burn Farrakhan could have addressed the percentage of black babies born out of wedlock. Instead of promising to push America into hell Farrakhan could have addressed the hip hop community and their portrayal of black women as hoes and bitches. Harry Bellefonte could have laid scorn on rappers who glorify gang violence that has lead to so much black on black violence. He chose however to explain why Bush is a tyrant.
Why is it that those who have achieved so much without the help of the NAACP, The black caucus, The nation of Islam, The Rainbow/Push Coalition were not invited? And those were indeed not invited, The Bill Cosby's the Clarence Thomas's, and the Neil Innis's are looked upon as evil. There is a disproportionate numbers of blacks to whites in politics. Not one conservative will tell you otherwise. That is also why you will here us congratulate the Barrack Obama's when they are elected. However why does the Black community lambaste Michael Steele and Lynn Swan? The social and economic issues of Black America transcend any political affiliation. So having people of your ethnicity in positions to uplift you should be considered a positive. Not in today’s black world. Condoleezza Rice, The most powerful person of color on the planet is scorned by the modern African American Liberal. Colin Powel? A tyrant. Yet Snoop Dog can run the country calling women hoes, smoking pot, glorifying violence and yelling the word Nigga all over the place and not a peep from Jesse Jackson and company.
Bill Cosby whom I have held a deep respect for, for years is probably the most hated Black man in America. Why? Because he holds a mirror up to the "poor and afflicted" black man asks "What the hell are you doing?"
This symposium did produce one relevant fact. "Blacks spend more per capita than whites for food, entertainment and clothing. The survey said blacks spend about $22 billion of their income on products and services and almost $29 billion on cars."  They then of course throw themselves into how Bush does not provide for those in "poverty". Do the math. See how much President Bush has spent on social programs and then factor in how many take advantage of these programs and then factor in the cars, and jewelry, and the Snoop dog albums and what do you have? You have people waiting for the government to rescue them from a nasty storm. Not Georges fault.
The saddest part of all this is that these hatemonger who abuse the president for the current state of African Americans are simply pandering to the poor. The poor with the big screen, and the poor with the fancy leather jacket, and the poor with the snoop Dog box set. What has Farrakhan and company actually provided for their brothers and sisters? Aside from hatred I mean. After Bellefonte finished his diatribe on how our government is keeping the black man down he returned to his multi million dollar apartment in New York. If you ask me those in attendance would have been better off working, or spending time with their kids.