BOLD like a Leopard

Black Americans played a disproportionately large role in the Communist Party USA and other similar movements. Harry Haywood was an early activist that tried to tie communist beliefs with racial questions. In Part I of this series I explained the failure of explicit Marxism among American black voters. In Part II the process of their gravitation toward being committed Democrats throughout the US was explored further. Here the focus will switch back to communism in the USA, among black Americans, and finally its relationship with the Democratic Party. The objective here is to answer the question of whether that party has begun to embrace certain principles of that tendency. The Old Left and racial issues For communist movements in the United States the early 20th century was an era of major potential, clashing with authorities, and then ostracism and disappointment. When compared to the repression against political dissidents in actual communist countries  like the USS...

Sharpe James dominated Newark politics for 20 years while his city decayed. Why is it that this template just gets repeated in city after city across black America? Last time I described a couple critical moments for the Democratic Party during the pre-Civil Rights era as they pertain to left-wing or even extreme left tendencies in the organization. The critical point was the 1948 election where progressive candidate former VP Henry A. Wallace, a former Democrat, ran against incumbent Democrat Harry Truman.  The LBJ pivot LBJ was the first Democratic presidential candidate to campaign forcefully in favour of civil rights. During the 1950s and 60s both the Democrats and Republicans were staunchly anti-communist and seemed to be competing as to who was more so, and why. In 1963, following the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy, his Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took office and launched his  Great Society  program and the  War on Poverty , official...

I appreciate it when people question things that are presented to them instead of accepting them at face value. That's the way you can filter real information from lies and myths. It's also legitimate to ask the meaning of a statement when it's not clear. However, when the person asking the question simply refuses to listen to the answer they drift into the realm of pure heckling. Last week I posted a statement by Dr. Carol Swain on a meme that appears above. The quote was probably distributed in order to illustrate the points made in Donald Trump's speech last week in Dimondtown, Michigan that addressed the Democratic Party's effects on the inner city communities. The Premise Dr. Swain is a law professor at Vanderbilt University, and a conservative Christian. Her points of view have put her at odds with black academia and liberal academia in general. In July after criticizing the BLM movement for their hair-trigger response to shootings in Minnesota and Loui...

This power couple just won't go way, will they? But maybe they deserve a fair shake? You decide below. Let me try to be as fair as I can to the record of former Congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin. To their credit , the couple don't shy away from expressing their views and sticking to their positions.  Anthony Weiner If we ignore Anthony Weiner's personal scandals for a second, he was by any measure one of the most dedicated Democrats in Congress during his terms in office. Let's set aside for a second, as Weiner would prefer, his embarrassing personal scandals. Here are the things that he did accomplish  as a US representative: Many of the organizations including NARAL, EMILY's List and middle class advocacy groups like the Drum Major Institute gave Weiner extremely high ratings.  He hat high favourability among his constituents due to his very responsive connection to his home community.  During debates about both Medica...

Since age 5 his headlines have been writing themselves There are plenty of those who view the entrance of a public figure's FAMILY  affairs into a political race as a distraction. My opinion has always been that it depends on the case, and really each one stands on its own. This afternoon I rejected the media's obsession with President Obama's daughter Malia's smoking marijuana. Although technically her own secret service detail had the grounds to report her for that activity, for some reason it didn't seem like something that I should care about.  But for Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband ANTHONY WEINER , now there that's a case where it's not just a distraction. It is a throbbing, veiny, rigid distraction that just bulges out of someone's shorts. I don't care how frivolous it is that we're still talking about a dumb-ass who fucked up his congressional career by sexting multiple women, getting exposed, blaming it ...

Stop deluding yourself that this president has advanced your agenda If you are voting for Green Party nominee Jill Stein and her running mate Ajamu Baraka (Left), you should now know that you're basically admitting the Obama (Right) Administration is a failure, and you no longer are supporting him. For some readers this piece will be like opening a window, whereas for the others it will be like having cold water poured on you. . . OR you will continue to live under the ridiculous contradiction of what you think now. The truth is that if you are a "progressive" and have considered yourself an Obama supporter until now, and you are now voting for the Green Party campaign headlined by Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka, those two positions are not consistent. They may share some similarities in name but BARACK has been clearly condemned and rejected by BARAKA. Here are some statements made by Prof. Baraka in regards to Pres. Obama's appearance at the 50th Anniversa...

Feel the Betrayal! Bernie Sanders during his campaign. He was supposed to be relaxing this week but it looks like he might need a vacation from his vacation. DailyKos . Here's a diagnosis for while the media is questioning Donald Trump's mental health, and Trump and others are questioning Hillary Clinton's physical and mental health alleging that she has a neurological disorder. Both, by the way, must still be proven. Let me go out there having taken a distance learning psychology course at a community college, that Bernie Sanders supporters are having separation anxiety. They can't bear to accept the fact that they secretly love the capitalism they preach against, and that their icon of rage has in fact been rendered a spoke in the spinning wheel of capitalism. The purchasing of a $600 thousand summer home on the shores of Lake Champlain should be a slap in the face to all of the #Bernouts. Just read the whiny nonsense of Lucy Tiven of attn: .  These c...