Like other misleaders, the Mayor measures Black progress by how the system has treated her small, grasping and self-centered class - not by what happens to the likes of George Floyd. "So if you love this city," she told the ungrateful hordes at the gate, "this city that has had a legacy of black mayors and black police chiefs and people who care about this city, where more than 50% of the business owners in metro Atlanta are minority business owners - if you care about this city, then go home."
Ironically, Black servants of capital, like all of Atlanta's mayors since Maynard Jackson won city hall in 1973, have no problem inviting whites with money to replace their own Black constituents in "renaissance" neighborhoods, but become fierce Black nationalists when whites join Black-led protests against the institutions that buttress racial capitalism. The Black Misleadership Class's identification with Power has become all but complete. As embedded tools of the oligarchy, they view any attack on the system as an assault against themselves and their status in the hierarchy. They are right; they should be treated as the enemy.
In this new phase of struggle, we see that there are plenty of non-Blacks that are quite willing to accept Black leadership - the signs they carry and the demands they shout in protests across the country are Black-vetted and correct. But the Black Misleadership Class - the enemy within - insists that they are our rightful leaders, when in fact their allegiance is to the ruling class: the Lords of Capital, like Ted Turner.
When things seem like they're coming apart, we need to ask: for whom? it may be that things are finally coming together.
All power to the people!
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com.
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