Blacks In Congress Must Clean Up Own House

[candy331]

Have you read this article yet? Jesse Jackson makes some very sound observations I think.

“The early concession betrayed the trust of the voters,” said Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., whose Rainbow PUSH Coalition has joined the Green and Libertarian parties and others demanding a vote recount in Ohio. “We have a moral obligation and a legal obligation to see that every vote counts and whether Kerry gets the most votes or not, we must break a precedent of fraudulent elections.”

What must be broken is the Democratic Leadership Council’s corporate grip on the party. Two presidential elections in succession, DLC-led tickets have acquiesced to Republican criminality, leaving Black voting rights strewn in the gutter like plastic baubles the morning after a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade. Kerry’s near-instantaneous concession was designed to pre-empt and silence the cries of the wounded so that the DLC might make amends with the Bush Pirates and rejoin the permanent government as a compliant, junior partner. However, history may record that Kerry’s cavalier dismissal of the Democratic base’s deep pain and righteous outrage was the fatal insult. Contempt is no basis for cohabitation. If the DLC’s dead hand cannot be pried from the controls, the national Democratic Party is finished. The troops will disappear, and no amount of 527-type money will buy them back.

more--

www.blackcommentator.com

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Well said, Brother Jesse.

Please keep saying it. Reform now. Reform always.

[lovuian]

2. I have to say the Democratic party is in trouble like the Repub's

basically Democracy is dead!!!

[Cheswick2.0]

3. He is right of course...he usually is

[LimpingLib]

4. Actual issue positions? What an unelectable heretic!!!

I honestly dont know what would happen if the GOP moninated Rudy or the Austrian pervert.

Id like to think it would be the beginning of the end of social conservative support for the party.

But considering Kerry lost serious ground (but still won easily) in states like New Jersey and New York , its clearly possible the GOP (with somebody Pro Choice , Bush isnt) could start winning the wealthy economic conservative but Pro Choice states.

Our only way of winning then is to fight hard on the economic front as well as the civil liberty and foreign policy front.

I really hope the GOP nominates a Pro Choice conservative like Rudy or the Pervert. WE would get killed the FIRST time but as economic issues come to the forefront hopefully we can finally find our soul again and after a few cleansings (where our congressional and Presidential candidates get clobbered and nearly wipped out)start to rebuild and win again. Win for the people for the first time in nearly (if not)forever.

We can nominate some Southern clown in 2008 and watch him loose more badly than our other Southern candidates and hopefully it will be the last time we base our nomination process on gimmics and strategys that leave people out.

[angee_is_mad]

5. rebuilding from the ground up

it is going to be a long and disheartening process, but this was definitely a wake up call for us.
The biggest majority voting bloc that Kerry got was blacks who voted 90% for him and what do we get in return? What have we ever got in return, since the 60s? But still we voted faithfully! Who are the power brokers of color that is in the party?

[m berst]

6. great article, thanks

"This campaign in Ohio is not so much about Kerry as it is about Fannie Lou Hamer,” said Jackson, on Pacifica’s Democracy Now! “It’s about Medgar Evers. It’s about Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney. It’s about the people's will to democracy. If people can fight for democracy in the Ukraine, we can do that here.”

[buddhamama]

7. thanks for posting

spot on-- "If the DLC’s dead hand cannot be pried from the controls, the national Democratic Party is finished. The troops will disappear, and no amount of 527-type money will buy them back."

[clutchcargo]

8. continuing recount

I WISH I COULD ACTUALLY BELIEVE THE RECOUNT MEANT SOMETHING----HOWEVER I WOULD BET MY LEFT GONAD IT WILL COME TO NAUGHT

[clutchcargo]

9. DEATH OF DEM PARTY

THE NATIONAL DEM PARTY IS DEAD IN ORDER TO WIN THEY MUST MOVE TO THE RIGHT AND IF THEY DO THAT THEY LOOSE US--THEIR BASE

[Eloriel]

13. That moving to the right thing is a lie

Fostered mainly by the DLC:


DLC
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves. -- Lenin

LINKS - What every DUer and every Dem needs to know about the DLC
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=4443&forum=DCForumID22&archive=

Let's be REALLY honest about the DLC
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=23262&forum=DCForumID60&archive=


Outing the "New Democrats" -- Pukes in Progressive Clothing.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=1435&forum=DCForumID34

Everyone who is a fan of the DLC, needs to read this post,
(Devils Advocate NZ's post is included)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=11323&forum=DCForumID60#114

Kerry, the New Democrats, and American Military Hegemony
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=326015#326061

New Dems formed to get corporate donors, be free from party base ideology
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1346735&mesg_id=1346735&page=

Ask the questions NOW of the DLC and Clinton. Corporate funding.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1372759#1373432

[Q]

10. Another great article from the Black Commentator...

...I read them every chance I get now. I would recommend this website to anyone wanting to know what's going on in the grassroots of the party.

[Vidar]

11. Great article. The DLC serves to corrupt the democrats, making them

largely subservient to the same corporate masters as the republicans. Hence the current higher level silence. Jesse tells it like it is.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Important commentary here on Howard Dean's role this year. . .

(snip)
Then there’s Howard Dean. Whether it was his original intention or not, Dean’s presidential campaign ultimately became the primary vehicle for the “real” Democrats’ crusade to take the party back from the DLC, a mission shared by “bottom-tier” candidates Al Sharpton, Carol Mosley-Braun and Dennis Kucinich, but scuttled by the massed corporate media in favor of John Kerry. Dean also proved that tens of millions of dollars can be raised in small contributions via the Internet, a Democratic alternative to corporate peonage. "He is the only candidate who emerged out of the 2004 campaign to build a serious organization," said Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., touting Dean for the DNC chairmanship. With Rep. Jackson on point, Dean has sought the support of numerous members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Whether Dean’s bid to free the Democratic National Committee from the corporate claws of the DLC is successful or not, it is in progressive Black Democrats’ interest to forge a strategic relationship with Dean’s Democracy for America PAC and its affiliated organizations. They know how to raise money – something Black progressive politicians have not been able to do for a host of reasons – and are committed to expanding the party’s progressive base, a project that is anathema to the DLC.
(snip)

:kick:

[okieinpain]

14. OUCH!!!!