By Raynard Jackson
During the past couple of months, I have undertaken an informal experiment with many of my friends who are media appointed leaders of all the top Black civil entitlement organizations (some refer to them as civil rights organizations, but I digress).
These friends of mine work in leadership positions for radical liberal groups like the NAACP, The National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus, The National Association of Black Journalists, etc.
I asked these radical Black liberals if they had to choose between voting for a Black Democrat versus a white Democrat, who would they choose.
Not one person asked me about any policy differences between the two candidates. Their default position was if “they were Black, they automatically had the best interest of the Black community at heart.”
Herein lies the problem permeating within the radical liberal quarters of the Black community, voting for skin color not for policies!!!
There are well over ten thousand Black elected officials across America, the most in the history of the U.S. This includes mayors, state representatives, state senators, city councilmen, etc. There is one Black governor in the U.S., Wes Moore, the radical liberal governor of the state of Maryland.
There are current and former Black mayors of St. Louis, Baltimore, New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, etc.
Many of these cities have not had a Republican mayor in almost one hundred hears—Baltimore, St. Louis comes to mind.
Yet whenever these radical liberal Black elected officials discuss all the negative indices in their communities among Blacks, the fault always lie with Donald Trump, white folks, racism and the legacy of slavery.
These radical liberal Blacks can never bring themselves to admit that it is their radical liberal policies that have destroyed the Black community!
Crime is out of control in these cities along with the unemployment rate, teenage pregnancy, welfare, and non-performing schools.
In many of these cities, radical liberal Blacks control all of the levers of power and they still blame their plight on “the man.” I have no idea who “the man is.” I would love for someone to introduce me to him.
You have a Black mayor, a majority Black city council, a Black state representative, a Black state senator, a Black police chief, a Black states attorney, and a Black U.S. Congressman; but yet the blame always comes down to white folks.