jamessl09's Blog

It is absolutely fascinating that in the year 2009 besides witnessing the election of the countries first black president, we also witness the ascendency of the black state senator to Lt. Governor. Then to Governor of the state of New York, but only after his boss was caught buying sex. And what do we know about David Paterson, besides the fact that he represents down state interests? He's been part of the political machine that's hurt New York states economy for 25+ yrs and inherited a multibillion dollar debt from his Republican and Democratic predecessors. Now don't get me wrong I don't dislike him because he's black, I'm a black male, and a libertarian who believes that the state of New York has no business, no business dictating what you can read, smoke, eat, or drink. And the current budget crisis existed long before Mr. Paterson ever become governor. But back to "The Accidental Governor" issue, had he ran a traditional Gubernatorial campaign like say H. Carl McCall, there ain't a snow ball's chance in hell he would have made it to the governors mansion in Albany. So now New York states in deep economic trouble, with this failed ideology of tax, spend, and borrow. Tax, spend and borrow, it doesn't work and it never has but convincing people like Gov. Paterson, Speaker Shelly Silver, and the rest of the democratic majority in Albany is like trying to a council a obese individual weighting over 300 to 400 lbs that if you don't go on a diet and give up the binge eating you will die. It's same principal with the state economy, in order to make it healthy again the taxing, borrowing, and spending must stop. If households across the city, county, state, and country have to balance their books than the state capital is no different. On Gov. Paterson, personally I like him but he's a liberal and a traditional socialist. Theirs no way he can lead New York out of it's present problems without making matters worse. I didn't vote for him or Spietzer however the black community must wake up out of it's subconscious coma. This is not the time to fall asleep when the states future is in financial peril.

In every community across the country people are faced with choices during election time. Be it the town supervisor, county executive, city mayor, common council, state assembly, state senate, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, etc. We're asked as citizens to become politically active and exercise our constitutional rights at the voting both. However, the people with the real sway, the folks with major cash get all the favors or have learned how to buy votes with taxpayer dollars. So I ask are we puppets without the strings and do we really have a representative democracy? When your elected officials can be bought and paid for and you are left high and dry what do you do? When you watch your jobs sent over seas for cheap labor and your elected officials rationalize it with the quote "We're now in a Global Economy and protectionism won't work". What options do you have? Since the 70's you've watched both major parties become almost identical and have sold out to corporate interests. But, we keep getting the same promises from the two party system and we fall for the same nonsense over and over again. So why are we and I'm speaking to Black America still putting our faith in the failed two party system? They tell us what they think we want to hear but behind closed doors vote against your and my best interest every single time.

So I ask you, are we puppets without the strings or just a gluten for punishment?

As you all are aware this is an election year and the stakes have never been higher but we've heard this all before right? This country is a in state of crisis on all fronts and we're in even worse shape becuase when the economy goes bad we bare the brunt of everything. In tough economic times, job cuts, strained credit, global warming, i mean the list is endless folks and we get hit harder then any other ethnic group on this planet.

That question remains true, and having said that black males have droped the ball for real. Something happened to the cause after the mid to late 70's and we've been catching hell ever since. So many factors have contributed to this but it's like we've never escaped the results of it. There have been public forums, AA or +Affirmative Action, more elected black officials then ever in history, some progress in the education front and yet we're still seemly at the buttom of the totum poll socially.

Oh we've made tons of gains black conservatives will say but all in all things don't look too good for black america. And doing forself seems almost akin to sedtion or treason if it don't include all mighty, all powerful, white poeple. If you have a number of black professionals, millionaires who become billionaires and this is hypothical, God fearing we still have a problem.

The other races and i don't have to mention the W word becuase you already know who i'm referring to will demand, no insist on absolute devotion and or allegiance no matter how much wealth we try or attempt to accumulate at that point. See you have to answer to somebody! Authority, God, but especially the one group of people who already consider themselves sovereign and supreme above all other races! So where does the eligible black man fit into that picture people or ladies. Well, if you want to break or control a whole mass of or generation of people what do you do? Tear down the male and spare the female. What happens if you have at least 15 to 20 black men with a combined net worth of 40 billion? Living in the U.S? Let's say 30 to 55? College or Vocational grads or college drop outs? Now that's real, REAL INDEPENDENT WEALTH. The kind we haven't seen in what over five, sex hundred years. Yet, he has to project strength, and intellect in a world ready to eat him alive. Just food for thought.

Now this will be short and to the point. Can anyone define what an eligible blackman looks like or who he is? Are we talking Paul Allen, Donald Trump, H. Ross Perot, David Geffen, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet eligible? Women (black women) if your looking to marry a black billionaire in any of those molds it's simply a pipe dream. Why, becuase they either don't exist or theirs only a few, that being maybe, maybe 2 or 3 at the least. And how many black males are there in the U.S.A ages 21-45 with the right cridentials to be considered for such an exclusive group on the world stage? If any black woman out there can answer that question armed with a college degree or not school us all.