A Turn Toward Our Racial Future??
In a unique and historic election, Cory Booker was elected a few days ago to the Senate of the United States, from the State of New Jersey. In the 65 years that I have been politically aware, I can remember only Edward Brooke, a black Republican Senator, and Adam Clayton Powell, a black Democrat Representative. Both were from the New England region of our nation.
When I reached voting age, young whites were protesting the Draft, in ever-increasing numbers, and black youth were in the streets protesting racial discrimination in it many manifestations. Powell, who rose to a powerful position as Committee Chairman, was driven out of office by fellow Democrats; led by LBJ. Ed Brooke, silently left the Senate. Carole Moseley Braun, in 1993, was next to be both black and a U.S. Senator.
During the 60s, four assassinations of political leaders, both black and white, by agents of the Hard Right, brought about a strategy of encouraging the election of blacks as Mayors of major U.S. cities. The strategy was designed to quell the rioting by black citizens that followed the assassinations. White citizens did not respond in any similar way (hardly at all) to the assassinations.
Immersed in McCarthy-era politics, confused by our role in the Vietnam War; whites seemed to not care much, and quietly accepted the official explanations for the deaths. The government's mask slipped somewhat in their explanations for the assassination of Martin Luther King.
Cory Booker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker adds some interesting history to that of black Senators elected since the end of the Civil War. Like the large majority of Blacks, African-American, Hispanics (etc.), Booker exhibits the mestizo mixture (black, white, Native) in his ancestral heritage; increasing rapidly in the United States.
His election comes during a period of time when the Extreme, White, Right-Wing is engaged in a death struggle against our Constitution and the total Economic Life of the United States. Having failed successively in getting their hands on power at the Federal level; through Supreme Court rulings, National Elections, and "Regular Order" in Congress; they took a run at ending both the government and the economy. They failed, narrowly, because the few white women in Congress came together to stop their attack. They have arranged to renew thier attack after they "rest-up" for 90 days. The Tea Party is their tool for achieving dictatorial domination of the nation.
Two things became clear in this most-recent attack from the Extreme Right: It is racial; driven by white males; and they are antithetical to the survival of the Constitution of the United States. We face a dedicated enemy "from within".
Stay Vigilant! Normal, Electoral voting is weakened by Media propaganda; it may fail to protect us.
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