It's all about money.
In the 21st century, we are sending black overseers to Washington whose interests is in receiving money to finance their loyalty to the state of Israel. If you've ever seen the 1993 Ethiopian film, Sankofa, written and directed by Haile Gerima, you'll recall that the message is that the past is guide toward wisdom. We are to understand that progress and personal growth often require retrieving knowledge, lessons, or wisdom from the past. It's one reason for the active and brutal movement to erase the history of the black experience in the US. Separate our children from their past! Who will they become?
There's a scene in the film shows a handpicked male overseer ordered to beat a very pregnant black woman for the crime of wanting freedom for her unborn and herself. The master, atop his horse, watches as the overseers whip tears into the flesh of this black woman until enslaved women surround the woman and release her the whip and the pole.
Here is a bit of knowledge. A lesson. Something, as Toni Morrison would say, to learn and draw wisdom from, but NOT to pass down.
Apparently, some of us have yet to learn that lesson. Wisdom, then, is far off.
When Senator Cory Booker decides to speak for 25 hours on the senate floor who is he thinking about? His ancestors? His constituents? Or is he thinking about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)? Not his ancestors! Not even his constituents! AIPAC, the Dear Master, has endorsed Booker to the tune of some $871, 313 since he's held that office.
It's more likely that he is thinking about what was happening to lawmakers Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush in the November elections of 2024. Bowman is punished by AIPAC for recognizing genocide in Gaza!
We are against genocide. We are against the starvation of children. We are against harming innocent people in any context, (The Congressional Black Caucus's Silent Partnership with AIPAC). These words are spoken by someone with a spine. Someone who has tapped into his history and knows who he is. He has learned which side of history he would rather reside on.
It's not hard to be disgusted by a Booker, in contrast, who can't utter those words above without glancing back at the master for permission to speak of another people shattered by the impunity of violence inflicted on them by the state of Israel. Booker, however, has no problems voting to send weapons to Israel, weapons that will certainly land on children and mothers. Shattering them to pieces.
Cori Bush, like Bowman, received the ire of Israel's AIPAC. She, too, dared to speak up on behalf of the starving children. She lost her seat to the money AIPAC heaped on a more obliging candidate, one who won't backtalk and insist on telling the truth.
It seems AIPAC would prefer the racists as long as the racist supports Israel.
Is there something to this? Yes. The interests of black Americans is once again pushed aside if not erased because Israel's interests are more important. The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), writes journalist Anthony Conwright, jeopardizes its ability to advocate for the interests of black Americans, when it punishes black Americans for daring to be free enough to recognize the suffering of Palestinians and the ethnonationalist campaign to eliminate a people.
Silence the Palestinians with a bombard of drones and bombs; silence the black people in the US with the offer of money to fund black politicians seeking to hold on to offices. Ever more expensive campaigns requires overseers who can't even call a genocide a genocide.
The CBC's core mission, writes Conwright, is to defend Civil Rights. But what I ask, is how can 26 of its 61 members do so when the mission that matters is the one to defend the rights of Israel to wage war wherever it pleases? Or there will be consequences to the forgetful.
And those 26 members of the CBC are truly forgetful, just not the way Israel would define forgetful.
Representatives for AIPAC remind Bowman and Bush of how much Jews have done for blacks during the Civil Rights movement. I find it interesting that South Africa when to the Geneva Convention to plead a case of genocide on behalf of the Palestinians since Israel depended on its relationship with the apartheid state in South Africa.
I can hear the underlying anti-black sentiment. Black Americans don't matter!
Conwright: What has rendered the Democratic Party such an impotent voice is combating the Gaza genocide, in other words, is a matter of fundraising math.
AIPAC spent nearly 4 billion in the 2024 congressional cycle alone. Where are the black voters who wanted Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman to represent them?
Are we sending to Washington D. C. black politicians who think like overseers, that is, think like slaves still, asking, as Malcolm X noted in his speech, Message to the Grassroots, what's the matter, boss, we sick?
We, black people, are being disappeared, CBC! Diversity, equity, and inclusion is an evil now. Books written by or about blacks, are banned. Slavery is now the best thing America ever did for black people now! The peculiar institution is to be remembered as a good time for black people who learned work skills, if not just basking in the sun!
Its not enough to keep saying these lobbyist need to go. Money in elections needs to stop flowing, buying elections, politician loyalty to whatever country or corporation.
Why is this happening? If we want young people to vote as they did in New York City for Zohram Mamdani, then we can't have overseers as careerists, content to tow the line and obey the orders of a foreign state. And speaking of Mamdani, how long did it take for Hakeem Jeffries, head of the CBC, to endorse Mamdani? Did he need permission from his lords and masters?
When will we see that money can't be valued over human life. Right now we have Americans and Israelis looked at the ruins in Gaza and thinking money. High-rise buildings and hotels and wealthy folks to occupy that space. The Palestinians be damned!
Money isn't equal to freedom!
As for the CBC: Have you folks no shame?
