Reply #31: It's all about payoffs.... [View All]

[anaxarchos]

Black Churches have always been key to civil rights and African-American political mobilization. Identify a few opportunist ministers, give up a few bucks of "faith based initiatives", give cover from a handful of prominent right-wing black officials ("come on Condi") and a whole bunch of pseudo-religious bigotry (thank you white right!) and you have some of the greatest impact for the least effort possible in America.

It won't work but it is still some stunning cynicism:

...public policy gets shoved off to private initiative, private initiative gets a coat of religious paint, citizens rights turns into charity, charity into bribes (with public money), and bribes into sellouts (or so the GOP hopes), all underneath the smarmy smile of a Mehlman "apology"... "sorry about lynchings too".

John Brown is fuming in his grave....