By Al Calloway
Guest Commentary While President Biden incessantly proclaims his dedication to this country and that country, and this issue and that issue, he gives us that lifting all boats logic regarding our needs. Pundits proclaim that as servicing the Black base. When really analyzed, anything Black people are promised do they ever actually become reality? Other groups get the bulk of it.
Black so-called leaders get special attention by keeping us on the plantation. We are so often told by them that we are making progress, which is a half-truth in this hydraheaded, Janus-faced American society. The actuality is this: If, for example, Black people progressed from A to C during a protracted period, White America moved from E to V during that same period. You get it?
We get crumbs in return for our vote. Placing Blacks in administrations has the appearance of political payoffs to the Black base, but they in no way have actual power. Notice where real economics is concerned, you see no Black people on the money! Biden talks to Black people about jobs (a lingering 1960s tact continued because it works) but nothing about economic opportunities for Black people
who are segregated from the financial sector of society. There is no quid pro quo relationship between the political party and the persons Black people vote for; what we get in return for our vote is miniscule, at best, and does not equal the value of our vote.
The Black vote is the base of the Democratic Party, which takes us for granted. So who are the people making deals for Black people? How do they get the right to represent all of us Black folk in the United States of America? You see, it’s our fault, we don’t pay attention. We don’t do the work of organizing, so, we get the hole in the American donut!