Please take a moment and read this interesting piece about the state of Black politics in America. Here’s a snippet:

The unfinished business of the Black Freedom Movement, the larger goal of which was empowerment and self-determination for the masses of African Americans, is in open conflict with the Jim Crow-era political current that embraced the personal, professional, business and political advancement of every Black individual as a collective victory for “The Race” as a whole. In today’s social-political environment, with hostile, outside forces actively recruiting Black “spokespersons” and financing Black “role models,” the Jim Crow-era Black worldview is not just obsolete - it is a formula for disaster.

The contradiction between the two opposing currents - the Black progressive struggle to transform society vs. celebration of individual Black advancement within the existing framework - became dramatically apparent with the advent of Barack Obama’s stealth corporate presidential candidacy. The tragedy also unfolds in the ranks of the Congressional Black Caucus, which in less than a decade has been neutered as an institution for social change by relentless corporate penetration.  Read more 

You’ve probably never heard of the people in this post. But you should read it anyway. Shockingly, one needn’t go to Cambridge or speak Latin to argue about matters religious and philosophical with the best of them. A sample (Baker is the white guy):

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