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This blog is inspired by a Wall Street Journal article by Christopher Cooper, et. al. Which can be read by accessing this link http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120105705756408791.html?mod=googlenews_wsj .

I read this article and it made some sentiments which I have been ranting about all week already, simmer over. I am well past frustrated and sick of the political and economic powers of America fleecing the sheep of the African American Communities and even further disgusted by the pseudo-civic leaders who profit from it.

The large corporations and political forces in America have enabled the worst kind of people to empower themselves in our communities. Today's leaders mobilize people with words and messages that invoke the legacies of Dr. King and Jesus only to then sell their new resource for personal prestige and economic gain. My view is that is only persist because ranters such as myself are rather individualized and therefore not powerful in terms of momentum in economic and political arenas which are tally based systems where quantity is always more valuable than quality. The pseudo-civic leaders have, in my view, violated the legacy of the aforementioned notables by invoking their spirit and selling their influence to the highest bidder. They preach on platforms, but the only true ideal they hold, it seems is that of personal promotion and affluence.

I become increasingly disgusted by this fleecing of our community. They take the elder and spiritual minded, and use these peoples efforts to commune with God and explore their faith and spirituality to exploit the position as Church leader to sway the social network toward which ever effort is most profitable. This is the most egregious exploitation of the African American community since slavery. What do the people gain? Maybe a bigger church??? Who holds the deed??? in Trust????

People often don't realize themselves as commodities but corporations and politicians certainly do and they know exactly who brokers the goods which they require. So they pull out the pocket books and right checks to all the "first blacks" and wait for the returns.

"First Blacks"? You may ask what is he talking about?
Well my friends I consider the "First Blacks" to be the first black person male or female to have done anything. In black communities these individuals typically are held in a position of high regard, especially by older African Americans who have suffered much at the hands of racism and hold a certain amount of esteem for one of "their own" that was able to break through the white establishment to do something previously never done by a person of color. It is my experience that most often the first black is not the problem. Yet, it is the legacy holders of the first black, the sons, daughters, wives, and close friends of the first black who use the legacy to turn the accomplishment of the few into the detriment of the many.

I mean King's papers to become property of the people cost 20 million dollars??? The church of a poor loving Jew becomes one of the Richest and most influential institutions in the world????

I'm aghast and deeply mortified by the perversion of Faith, love, and fellowship among people, with particular interest to that of the African American into a culture for hire.