In their reflexive
circling of the wagons around United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, the
U.S. Black Misleadership Class reveal a total absence of political or
moral values beyond the narrow pursuit of group prestige through
proximity to imperial power. Even the dashiki-wearers among them care
not a whit for Africa, whose rape and depopulation has been the focus of
Rice’s incredibly destructive career. Rice’s intimate involvement in
the murder of six million Congolese, her frenzied campaign to bomb and blockade Sudan, her successful instigation of regime change and race war in Libya, and her bloody-handed role in the ongoing torture of Somalia – all this means nothing to the vacuous and fawning class that claims to represent Black America.
Believing their own prestige to be entwined with Rice’s fortunes, her
Black boosters embrace an abettor of genocide and endless military
interventions as one of their own – and indict themselves.
-- Glen Ford, "The Shameless Vacuity of Susan Rice's Black Boosters" (Black Agenda Report).
