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The Black Misleadership Class Lines Up Behind Transit Privatization In Atlanta

Wed, 10/31/2012 - 08:21 — Bruce A. Dixon

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

When the issue was opposing Jim Crow, the black community in places like Atlanta was united. But after a generation of black faces in high places, the black political class in cites like Atlanta has less in common with ordinary African Americans than ever before.  The next big issue on the horizon --- transit privatization, will open a vast chasm between our black elite and the rest of us. 

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Will Black Mecca Bail Out Its Gentrifiers and Their Jim Crow BeltLine Streetcars?

Wed, 01/11/2012 - 13:51 — Bruce A. Dixon

By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Hailed by “smart growth” advocates around the country, the Atlanta BeltLine, is a massive & racist gentrification scheme funded by diverting billions out of Atlanta's Public School budget to banksters and crooked developers. But those billions aren't enough. To bail out the BeltLine, the governor and Atlanta's black mayor want to levy a one-cent sales tax on Atlanta for streetcars and light rail most of black Atlanta will never ride, for Jim Crow streetcars, when black Atlanta neighborhoods don't even get 24 hour bus or train service. Can the black misleadership class really pull this off?

Occupy Atlanta VS Kasim Reed, the Black Misleadership Class and the One Percent

Wed, 10/26/2011 - 12:26 — Bruce A. Dixon

Why are police across the country arresting and dispersing occupation sites? And why is the Black Misleadership Class, and its black Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed threatened by the occupy movement? Why did Atlanta send copters, hundreds of police, and spend at least $800,000 to breakup Occupy Atlanta? Where will it assemble next? Can homeless Atlanta and Occupy Atlanta work together, and if they can, will mayor Reed and his friends in the one percent like that even less?

I Wanna Be A Macho Man: The Prosperity Gospel According to Eddie Long

Wed, 09/29/2010 - 14:55 — Sikivu Hutchinson

by Sikivu Hutchinson

Allegations that Bishop Eddie Long lured young Black men to become his sexual playthings should come as no surprise, since his brand of “faith pimping spiritual ministry translates into emotional manipulation, psychological control, and sexual exploitation.” Long, a “self-proclaimed ‘spiritual daddy’ to a nationwide army of ‘wayward’ sons,” is the inevitable offspring of religious patriarchy and robber baron politics.

The Black Church and the Hollowing Out of Black Politics

Wed, 01/16/2008 - 01:18 — Bruce A. Dixon
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
Much of what passes for Black leadership no longer represents African American political interests or opinion, having broken from their progressive mass moorings under the lure of corporate money and “faith-based” government bribes. Black politicians dance to the tunes of Big Business campaign contributors, while many Black preachers “ape the undemocratic and bigoted worst” of their white Christian counterparts. The ambitions of both the secular and religious hustlers converge in Memphis Tennessee, where Black preachers fan the flames of homophobia to elect their chosen candidate, and in Georgia, where an elected Black county executive is poised to run for Cynthia McKinney’s old seat in Congress with the help of real estate interests and money-grubbing mega-preachers, thus threatening to push the Congressional Black Caucus further to the Right. The Black Georgia incumbent congressman’s crime: he’s a Buddhist.

Black Mecca: The Death of an Illusion

Wed, 10/12/2005 - 18:00 — Bruce A. Dixon

Black-led and proudly black ruled for a generation, and home to more black millionaires than anyplace else besides the nation's capital, Atlanta also leads the nation in the percentage of its children in poverty.  What does this say about the status of "Black Mecca"?

Black Mecca, the Death of an Illusion

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