Remember that this is a publication of the Black far left, some of whom are
former Black Panthers. They have consistently disapproved of Black Lives
Matter, seeing it as a group of people wanting to be part of the system,
rather than a revolutionary movement.
Miriam
"Black Lives Matter" Groups Hoping for a Big Payday
Submitted by Glen Ford on Wed, 11/18/2015 - 14:49
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
This week, the billionaires that fund the Democratic Party and its satellite
organizations will decide which of the "Black Lives Matter" groups will get
paid to lead the Black "movement." The #BlackLivesMatter network and
Campaign Zero are eminently qualified for funding, having "already been
accorded the status and privileges of constituent Democratic Party
organizations." Who else will make the corporate cut?
"Black Lives Matter" Groups Hoping for a Big Payday
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
"Two organizations are pre-approved for Democratic Party funding."
If the Democratic Party is where grassroots movements go to die, then the
run-up to presidential elections is a year-long procession of Dead Activists
Walking. This week, the funders of the Democratic wing of the corporate Deep
State - most prominently, currency manipulator George Soros - have invited
the Good, the Bad and the Hungry elements of what is widely called the Black
Lives Matter movement to make their case for cash infusions. The Democracy
Alliance's (DA) stated mission is "to build progressive infrastructure that
could help counter the well-funded and sophisticated conservative apparatus
in the areas of civic engagement, leadership, media, and ideas."
Translation: to transform leftish activist organizations into loyal,
dependent annexes of the Democratic Party.
The rich can be quite fickle in bestowing their Midas touches, especially
when it comes to Blacks. Back in 2004, Soros and other members of the
Democratic Fat Cat Pack all but severed the cash umbilical cord to a host of
Black organizations that had grown dependent on "soft" Democratic campaign
money. Suddenly, the billionaires were running the Democratic ticket's Get
Out The Vote (GOTV) effort in Black precincts across the country, with
virtually all of the old-line civil rights organizations kicked to the curb.
Insulted, embarrassed and desperate for cash, 130 Black groups formed a band
of beggars called Unity '04 under the co-chairmanship of Urban League
President Marc Morial, Dorothy Height, of the National Council of Negro
Women, and University of Maryland political scientist Ron Walters. Walters
fired off a letter of protest:
"This is an arrogant and divisive usurpation of power and it is destructive
of our efforts that began most recently in the Civil Rights movement, where
the efforts of Blacks to provide their own leadership in the act of
political participation was understood to be the source of their power in
the policy system as well."
"The 'civil rights leadership' never regained the steady quadrennial stipend
to which they had grown accustomed."
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. whined, "It's insulting that none of us who have been
responsible for most registration and turnout are at the table determining
priorities."
However, the Democrats went on to lose the 2004 election without the paid
services of the "civil rights leadership," who never regained the steady
quadrennial stipend to which they had grown accustomed during decades of
loyalty to the party. With the party machinery firmly in the hands of the
Democratic Leadership Council, the corporate-funded faction co-founded by
Bill Clinton and Al Gore for the express purpose of limiting the influence
of Blacks and labor, the Black Unity '04 groups were definitively put in
their place - without two nickels to rub together.
As I wrote in The Black Commentator, on October 14, 2004:
"Traditional African American leadership is reaping the shriveled fruits of
the narrow path it strode down three decades ago, when the 'movement' was
demobilized in favor of brokered politics and periodic electioneering.
Until now, Blacks were invited to the two- and four-year Democratic
electoral party, but not to the permanent power party. Under the new regime,
traditional Black organizations have been disinvited from the electoral
party, as well. The goal is clear: The DLC means to prevent Black groups
from taking credit for a massive African American voter turnout against
Bush. By sidelining these organizations during the campaign, the DLC hopes
to cripple their capacity to mobilize constituencies between elections.
Since electoral and broker politics has been so central to mainstream Black
organizations for the past 30-plus years, the game will, essentially, be
over."
"'Movement' leaders promised corporate sugar daddies that they would run
their organizations 'like a business'."
Despite insult and injury, the Black sideshow kept playing the Democrat's
tune, albeit for much smaller tips. However, the shock of the loss of status
and funding by the Democratic Party resulted in an acceleration of the old
line Black organizations' historic drift towards dependence on corporate
funding. "Movement" leaders promised corporate sugar daddies that they would
run their organizations "like a business." The Congressional Black Caucus,
as a body, turned dramatically to the right in 2005, as Black lawmakers
scrambled for corporate contributions.
The same year, George Soros and his peers formed the Democracy Alliance to
terra-form U.S. leftish politics in the interests of the party. Some new
Black groups were funded, eventually including ColorOrChange.org. However, a
plutocratic purge in 2012 defunded ColorOfChange.org and a number of other
outfits "working on issues relating directly to people of color," according
to the Huffington Post. ColorOfChange was later returned to the fold, and by
2015 was listed among the DA's core "national partners and cross-issue
organizations."
Now enter, Black Lives Matter. The term has evolved from a catchy hashtag
popularized by a specific network founded by three Black women, to a
catch-all for every group vying for a recognition in the incipient
"movement." This week, some of them will be answering Soros & Company's
cattle-call, at the Democracy Alliances headquarters, in Washington.
Two organizations are pre-approved for Democratic Party funding. The
Democratic National Committee has already endorsed the BlackLivesMatter
network, praising "creators" Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza
by name. Despite the BLM network's public rebuff of the DNC ("We do not now,
nor have we ever, endorsed or affiliated with the Democratic Party, or with
any party"), the Garza-Cullors-Tometi network pushed for a party-sanctioned
presidential debate, while off-shoot Campaign Zero has gotten DNC approval
to host a town hall presidential candidate forum. Both organizations have
been accorded the status and privileges of constituent Democratic Party
organizations, such as MoveOn.org. Their journey from "movement" to the
Democrat plantation took less than a year - if the moment of impact of
Officer Darren Wilson's bullet in Michael Brown's brain is the starting
point.
And now it's payday.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at
Glen.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
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satellite organizations will decide which of the "Black Lives Matter" groups
will get paid to lead the Black "movement." The #BlackLivesMatter network
and Campaign Zero are eminently qualified for funding, having "already been
accorded the status and privileges of constituent Democratic Party
organizations." Who else will make the corporate cut?
"Black Lives Matter" Groups Hoping for a Big Payday
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
"Two organizations are pre-approved for Democratic Party funding."
If the Democratic Party is where grassroots movements go to die, then the
run-up to presidential elections is a year-long procession of Dead Activists
Walking. This week, the funders of the Democratic wing of the corporate Deep
State - most prominently, currency manipulator George Soros - have invited
the Good, the Bad and the Hungry elements of what is widely called the Black
Lives Matter movement to make their case for cash infusions. The Democracy
Alliance's (DA) stated mission is "to build progressive infrastructure that
could help counter the well-funded and sophisticated conservative apparatus
in the areas of civic engagement, leadership, media, and ideas."
Translation: to transform leftish activist organizations into loyal,
dependent annexes of the Democratic Party.
The rich can be quite fickle in bestowing their Midas touches, especially
when it comes to Blacks. Back in 2004, Soros and other members of the
Democratic Fat Cat Pack all but severed the cash umbilical cord to a host of
Black organizations that had grown dependent on "soft" Democratic campaign
money. Suddenly, the billionaires were running the Democratic ticket's Get
Out The Vote (GOTV) effort in Black precincts across the country, with
virtually all of the old-line civil rights organizations kicked to the curb.
Insulted, embarrassed and desperate for cash, 130 Black groups formed a band
of beggars called Unity '04 under the co-chairmanship of Urban League
President Marc Morial, Dorothy Height, of the National Council of Negro
Women, and University of Maryland political scientist Ron Walters. Walters
fired off a letter of protest:
"This is an arrogant and divisive usurpation of power and it is destructive
of our efforts that began most recently in the Civil Rights movement, where
the efforts of Blacks to provide their own leadership in the act of
political participation was understood to be the source of their power in
the policy system as well."
"The 'civil rights leadership' never regained the steady quadrennial stipend
to which they had grown accustomed."
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. whined, "It's insulting that none of us who have been
responsible for most registration and turnout are at the table determining
priorities."
However, the Democrats went on to lose the 2004 election without the paid
services of the "civil rights leadership," who never regained the steady
quadrennial stipend to which they had grown accustomed during decades of
loyalty to the party. With the party machinery firmly in the hands of the
Democratic Leadership Council, the corporate-funded faction co-founded by
Bill Clinton and Al Gore for the express purpose of limiting the influence
of Blacks and labor, the Black Unity '04 groups were definitively put in
their place - without two nickels to rub together.
As I wrote in The Black Commentator, on October 14, 2004:
"Traditional African American leadership is reaping the shriveled fruits of
the narrow path it strode down three decades ago, when the 'movement' was
demobilized in favor of brokered politics and periodic electioneering. Until
now, Blacks were invited to the two- and four-year Democratic electoral
party, but not to the permanent power party. Under the new regime,
traditional Black organizations have been disinvited from the electoral
party, as well. The goal is clear: The DLC means to prevent Black groups
from taking credit for a massive African American voter turnout against
Bush. By sidelining these organizations during the campaign, the DLC hopes
to cripple their capacity to mobilize constituencies between elections.
Since electoral and broker politics has been so central to mainstream Black
organizations for the past 30-plus years, the game will, essentially, be
over."
"'Movement' leaders promised corporate sugar daddies that they would run
their organizations 'like a business'."
Despite insult and injury, the Black sideshow kept playing the Democrat's
tune, albeit for much smaller tips. However, the shock of the loss of status
and funding by the Democratic Party resulted in an acceleration of the old
line Black organizations' historic drift towards dependence on corporate
funding. "Movement" leaders promised corporate sugar daddies that they would
run their organizations "like a business." The Congressional Black Caucus,
as a body, turned dramatically to the right in 2005, as Black lawmakers
scrambled for corporate contributions.
The same year, George Soros and his peers formed the Democracy Alliance to
terra-form U.S. leftish politics in the interests of the party. Some new
Black groups were funded, eventually including ColorOrChange.org. However, a
plutocratic purge in 2012 defunded ColorOfChange.org and a number of other
outfits "working on issues relating directly to people of color," according
to the Huffington Post. ColorOfChange was later returned to the fold, and by
2015 was listed among the DA's core "national partners and cross-issue
organizations."
Now enter, Black Lives Matter. The term has evolved from a catchy hashtag
popularized by a specific network founded by three Black women, to a
catch-all for every group vying for a recognition in the incipient
"movement." This week, some of them will be answering Soros & Company's
cattle-call, at the Democracy Alliances headquarters, in Washington.
Two organizations are pre-approved for Democratic Party funding. The
Democratic National Committee has already endorsed the BlackLivesMatter
network, praising "creators" Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza
by name. Despite the BLM network's public rebuff of the DNC ("We do not now,
nor have we ever, endorsed or affiliated with the Democratic Party, or with
any party"), the Garza-Cullors-Tometi network pushed for a party-sanctioned
presidential debate, while off-shoot Campaign Zero has gotten DNC approval
to host a town hall presidential candidate forum. Both organizations have
been accorded the status and privileges of constituent Democratic Party
organizations, such as MoveOn.org. Their journey from "movement" to the
Democrat plantation took less than a year - if the moment of impact of
Officer Darren Wilson's bullet in Michael Brown's brain is the starting
point.
And now it's payday.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at
Glen.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
