The Role of Race in Current Politics,
or,
What Could Oprah Winfrey Do?
I Foreword (I added it on July 31st)
Democrats demonstrate a case of mass delusion, or mass masochism – again. It’s like watching a game when you know that the winner has been already fixed, but as a fan, you hide that knowledge deep inside. Everything is happening exactly like in 2016 when the Democratic Party establishment coupled with big donors has made their choice. But now it's Joe Biden. Mark my words – he will be nominated - everything else is a theater, a comedy or a drama, a spectacle to give people who believe in fairytales and miracles a sense of importance – a participation trophy that says; “I was making a difference!”
No, you didn’t. But you thought you did – good for you!
BTW: you could.
Joe Biden has a slight chance of beating Trump – but only if the democrats will go beyond trivial mass advertising of popular slogans and start working on a brand-new political machinery. Here is your chance to make a difference – push your representatives in that directions.
Start from reading something NEW.
https://www.cognisity.how/2019/07/win2020.html
https://www.cognisity.how/2019/04/sanders.html
https://www.cognisity.how/2019/01/EWarren.html
etc. (there are more).
The original post
I still remember my feeling I had a while ago when I overheard this conversation.
Man #1 “Your crew did not do a good job.”
Man #2 “I know, they aren’t very good, but they do the
best they can.”
Man #1 “Why don’t you tell them to work better or to
learn things?”
Man #2 “You know, many of them are black, they may be
sensitive to what I say, I don’t want to be called a racist or whatever.”
My feeling was “What is he talking about? It does not
matter if you are white, or black, or any other kind, the quality of work
should not depend on that”.
It was a long time ago; I just moved in the U.S. from
Russia; I didn’t know much about racial history of America. In fact, when I was
growing up, I was immersed in the culture called “internationalism”. It meant
“people of all races are equally important”. And I still firmly believe in this
idea.
However, overtime I have learned about a very strong
tensions between white America and black America. And I can see the results of
those tensions in my classrooms – I have a very small number of
African-American students.
Gradually I have come to a realization that the
majority of schools with the predominantly African-American students simply do
not offer a high-quality education – enough to pursue a college education.
And then I have come to a realization that such a
state of education of African-American students has been established by design.
It wasn’t done in any obvious form or a manner. On the
contrary, millions of dollars may have been channeled into education. But it
was done in such a way that predominantly white researches or institutions have
been elected to receive funds to do some “research” on how to improve
education. After millions of dollars have been spent on research and publications,
the actual state of education remained the same.
A very good account if this state of affairs is
presented by Dale Russakoff in her book “The
Prize: Who is in charge of American Schools”. I used her example in one of
many of my posts on the matter, such as:
It’s not just politicians who have been using
“education reform” as a pretext to shift some money around without making any
real impact. Many rich philanthropists did the same (“People have to get over
this idea that because the guy is rich he’s that smart”); and
the government agencies, like the NSF, did that, too (“How much of the NSF
funded fundamental scientific educational research is really fundamental?”).
Time was passing, money was flowing, but the
predominantly African-American schools were in a stagnant state.
No wonder, that some of the African-American workers
could not provide the same quality of work as their white American
counterparts. It was done by design.
I can only assume that the main reason for the essentially
anti-African-American education policies was the fear of competition combined
with the desire to control political power (especially when the relative portion
of the white American population is gradually decreasing).
The outcome, however, eventually bit the policymakers
in the a$$. Due to obvious demographic changes in the population, now America
has a growing population of low qualified workforce. And that is on the top of
the losses of high-quality professional positions many white Americans used to
enjoy, but don’t anymore.
This brings us to the politics.
The main reason Donald Trump won the race in 2016 was
the fear many white Americans felt toward African-American population. That
fear has also been transitioned toward “low qualified immigrants”. Naturally,
building a wall or intensify ICE’s raids (supported
by more than half Americans) will not stop the demographic changes white
Americans fear so much, but it provides some psychological relief – “We got those
bastards”. I have been extensively
writing on this matter, and I refer everyone to such posts like:
Unfortunately, no one on the left, no one in the
anti-Trump camp knows how to deal with Donald Trump and – most importantly –
the reasons for he wins the minds and hearts of millions of Americans (e.g. “The Degradation of The
White Male American Elite”, or “If Liberals Won’t Enforce
Borders, Fascists Will (a word from and to David Frum)”).
That is why the Democrats are desperately seeking the
approval from African-American voters, whose voting or not voting will make all the difference in 2020 (like it did in three
previous elections).
That is why recently Bill
Maher laid out a case for “Oprah Winfrey for the President!”
First, I want to point out at the fact that the
general idea is not wrong.
Many African-American voters do not fully realize yet
their political power, and may not vote based on ideology, but will support an
African-American candidate (“The Only Way To Defeat White Nationalism Is To Embrace
“Black Nationalism”).
However, asking Ms. Winfrey to run for the President
is wrong.
The Democrats need to ask her to be the
Vice-President.
First, if anyone would start saying: “A VP is below
her status, a VP does not do anything, a VP is not important”, I say “Sorry,
but you are a f#king idiot; obviously, you have never heard about Dick Cheney”.
Secondly, I want to stress, that Ms. Winfrey has to be
asked NOW, before any primaries.
Democrats have to say to her: “Ms. Winfrey, pleas, pleas,
pleas, be our VP. With whom running for the office? We don’t care! It is up to
you! Please, feel free to talk to all of them, or any of them, make your mind,
and tell everyone who you like the most. When we will win, you will decide what
you want to do as a VP. You can concentrate all your energy on helping black
communities to rise from the poverty, because someone has to (all the way up to
reparations). Or you can do nothing at all, you can even quit, if you want. We
will do ANYTHING you say!”
This needs to be done as soon as possible. All other
candidates need to know that they have no chance and drop from the race. And
then Democrats have to concentrate on the election campaign.
This, plus the installation of the right (i.e.
correct) third-party candidate (how? - it is explained in my posts on the matter,
starting from “The
True Role Of The Third Party”) will guarantee
the defeat of Donald Trump.
Anything else is just gambling.
And Trump does it much better than anyone on the left.
P.S. I am absolutely positive that my scenario will
never be accepted or even read by any Democratic political strategist. They
just don’t have enough knowledge, and imagination, and guts to say to their
sponsor: “I got this very interesting idea; no, it isn’t mine, but it might be
just the one we need to beat Trump”.
And that, folks, is why Democrats keep losing.
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