July 27, 2020
Spectacles: Ill
Defined Blackness
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| Dr Ada M Fisher |
As
a show of total ignorance as well as blatant “cancel culture”, media bias
against this present administration and blacks themselves, The Smithsonian
National Museum for African American History and Culture in Washington DC bought
into the craziness of those who are attempting to destroy and rewrite our
history in displaying certain signs on a chart listing “whiteness: Individualism, hard work, objectivity,
the nuclear family, progress, respect for
"hard
work" and "rational linear thinking". Thankfully such has since been
removed. Unfortunately, the
plague of denigrating societal values of success in this democratic republic, as
if blacks too do not exhibit such, may be beyond perceived racism, further
contributing to why certain individuals fail to realize their dreams and
goals.
This
desecration of monuments and violence associated with riots must not be allowed
no matter the fault for the safety of our lives depends on it. I know of few individuals who want to
defund the police for it will leave our communities vulnerable to a frontal
assault from those hell bent on anarchy and internal control.
It
is sad that too few African Americans are looking at who is behind the violence
of the Black Lives Matter Movement and it isn’t us and may not be us in
control. In Durham, the
dismantled statue of the southern confederate was done at the behest of the
Communist Party. So too are the
Marxist, Socialist and Communist using blacks as a front for their own agenda
which may not be in our best interest. The respect being sought won’t be
accomplished through legislation but reflects upon economic parity which cannot
be achieved by words alone, but will require educational excellence and
entrepreneurial investment in our communities which I have yet to hear
articulated. An Equal Opportunity society, a concept promoted by Arthur
Fletcher, Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Nixon Administration is one
bastardized by Congress to keep from helping to open those doors.
When
the protestors came to my comfortable small town of Salisbury, NC, the only
Wal-Mart in town was temporarily closed leaving no survival port for citizens in
this storm. Examining those
misguided souls leading the resistance, I kept thinking we don’t own a farm
cooperative, factory or other service which would allow us to meet our basic
needs. If they want to protest
why not take up the mantle of the Black farmers whose lands have been unfairly
confiscated. If we are to buy
black, is there a black owned Wal-Mart or even a car company so we don’t
continue to buy foreign vehicles which put no money in our communities or
provide the manufacturing jobs our folks need?
By
the way, do folks truly appreciate on Dec.
17, 2003, in
the Oval Office, President George W. Bush signed into law
legislation allowing the creation of a National Museum of African-American
History and Culture as part of the Smithsonian Institution. This
Republican’s foresight was one of many needed to begin to right some of the
national wrongs, but what is happening now is not right. It is most interesting that those
interested in destroying our ways of living don’t seem interested in immigrating
to Russia, Cuba, Venezuela or other nations subscribing to a government in which
they seem vested. Also note
though our system of immigration is flawed, why are those from Socialist,
Marxist and Communist nations so eager to get in and reestablish their
previously abandoned lives here.
James
E. Jackson Jr., (1914-2007),
a leader of the Communist Party USA for many years, began in political action at
age 16 remaining
an unwavering fighter for equality being the initiator of efforts which led to
bus boycotts in Detroit, auto-unions, student nonviolent coordination
demonstrations long before such was sanitized and reinstituted in the sixties.
Foreshadowing these efforts led by the Communist Party, Jackson was one of
the figures
of the African American freedom movement, the progressive
movement generally, and the Communist Party USA little
discussed in Black History. In 1956, Jackson was among Communist Party leaders
convicted under the infamous Smith Act for “conspiring to teach” sometime in the
future “the overthrow of the government by force and
violence.” Jackson argued that the concept of
self-determination for a “Negro nation” in the Black belt of the South should be
replaced with the current concepts of special compensatory measures to achieve
full equality throughout the country. He contended that the struggle for African
American equality is central to the struggle for democracy and progress in the
country as a whole. His position prevailed. He was awarded the highest honors of
the USSR and was influential in the lives of W. E. B. Dubois, Paul Robeson and
so many others imbued with a spirit of Black Nationalism. As with others who talked of freedom, he left
the Soviet Union and returned to the USA. The promises of other governmental
foundations have not given to us the very freedoms enjoyed in this nation which
their protégés are now trying to destroy.
I
never met this man who started much of what is now being seen; but his impact
has been large upon my life, for as a distant cousin, his non-surface connection
to my family (we were not of this ilk) caused us much scrutiny and denial of
security clearances as well as opportunities in the real world.
Ada
M. Fisher, MD, MPH is a former Medical Director in a Fortune 500 company,
licensed teacher, retired physician, former county school board member, speaker,
author of Common Sense Conservative Prescriptions Good for What Ails Us Book 1
(available through Amazon. Com) and is the NC Republican National
Committeewoman.
