Monday, October 5, 2009

Louie Louie, Me Gotta Go

The so-called "black leadership" seems to have done a... you should excuse the expression, "shuffle"... recently, and again I ask, why am I the only one who seems to notice these things? In the latest Outrage and Regret Fest in Chicago, over another "meaningless" death of a young black man, who should appear center stage along with Jesse Jackson but... no, not Al Sharpton, for once, but Louis Farrakhan. Yeah baby, Calypso Louie is back... and no one is batting an eyelash.

Now... in the language of "viewing stand speak"... well, let me define that term. Remember how the "Russia hands" in the State Department could always tell who was where in the Soviet pecking order by where they stood on Lenin's tomb to watch the May Day parade? They could tell you, by the number of places someone stood from the boss, whether they were on the way up or down the totem pole... and, typically, if the answer was "down", they wouldn't make a repeat appearance the following year.

So... what's up with Farrakhan replacing Sharpton as Jackson's partner in the long-running race-mongering Vaudeville team? Was he just standing in? And if so, why him? I mean, he's considered controversial even among blacks. Not everyone likes the level of discipline and the Islamist flavor his organization represents... plus, he has "outed" the white liberal establishment a number of times for having, basically, turned the bulk of the black leadership into sold-out, shuffling Uncle Toms. In other words, he's a troublemaker. And yet, here he is, parading around Chicago (also significant) with Jackson as an apparent equal. Not that they could have kept him away, of course... but frankly, I couldn't have told you for sure if he was still alive, up until this appearance.

All very intriguing... but we have to wait until the next black Kodak moment to find out if it's a sea change or just a one-time event.

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