Feeling the need to outbid warmongering Democrats for the allegiance
of military contractors and the military itself, the new Republican
president proposes an unprecedented 10% increase in a Pentagon budget
which already equaled the amount spent on arms by the next eight or nine
countries combined.
So when can we expect to hear our black preachers, our black
sororities, business and professional associations, and our black
politicians, our shining black political class to decry and denounce
this criminal misuse of the nation’s wealth? Sadly the answer we will
not hear a peep from the black political class about the runaway war
budget because they don’t have the permission of their masters, their
bosses in the Democratic party. You see the Democratic party leadership
are just as enthusiastic warmongers as Donald Trump. The main difference
is that Democratic party leaders do not have Congress or the White
House, but they DO own the minds, careers and what’s left of the souls
of our black elite.
50 years ago, when Dr. King denounced the endless wars of American
empire his support among white and black elites and corporate media
vanished overnight, and he became one of the most denounced and despised
men in America, profoundly unwelcome in most black churches, which
nowadays claim to have been the cradle of the movement. If Dr. King
repeated those denunciations today he might have many supporters among
ordinary people, but he would be just as unpopular today as he was 50
years ago among much of our striving, career-minded, contract and grant
seeking black elite.
-- Bruce A. Dixon, "Why Won’t the Black Political Class Won’t Denounce Trump’s Militarism? Because They Can’t." (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).