The colorful face of empire:

“With a black first family in the White House and a diverse group of appointees and Cabinet nominees, the all-white dinner party feels all wrong. Certain hosts are suddenly grappling with a new reality: They need some black friends. Overnight, black politicians, lawyers and journalists are hot properties, receiving engraved invitations from people they never got invitations from before. (emphasis mine)

“This article, trumpeting the latest blend of powerbrokers, is about as far from the mark of what the real problem is as you can get without entering a vegetative state.  As if we’re supposed to be all Woo Hoo! because the percentage of beltway players that could use a tan has gone down.  Please…

See, the issue here isn’t what the people with influence look like.  Their overwhelming whiteness has been historical coincidence due to previous factors, which is being dealt with already.  No, the issue is this: as long as the same ideas and the same worldview are in charge, nothing will change, no matter how loudly the mainstream press cheers.  If accepting the status quo is the price of admission then functionally we’ve not moved, and are merely sticking new blinds on a broken window….”

Read the rest of the post by libertarian blogger, Psychopolitik

Comment:

 Now, tell me why you never hear this slant from most of the African American community’s representatives in the media? Instead, you get the voices of the “welfare establishment” – those who think the community must always look to Washington to address its problems. Less frequently, you hear the voices of conservatives, but they also think you need to have someone with a gun and a slogan as some kind of prop for their religious views.

You hear someone with libertarian or antistate views rarely.

 But then, of course,  why would you, with a media mostly beholden to the gun-makers correction: weapons industry and the sloganeers?

Update:Rereading this, I find it sounds as if I am opposed to gun ownership. I am not. I meant the weapons industry, as in weapons of war.

I’m all for responsible gun ownership and nurse unending dreams of  that handy revolver I’ll have some day, hidden snugly in a hip pocket….