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Cynthetiq · 04-02-2008, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by host

This was your post before this one:

If you refer to the US senator sent to DC by the 1870 Mississippi legislature, I had no intention of using his example as an example of a "puppet". In his day, there was no popular election of US Senators. They were elected by the voting of each state legislature. In 1870, black representation, due to resistance by former confederates to participate in "Yankee" directed politics, and because of laws enacted to penalize former confederates, was the highest it has been, before or since.

The point is that blacks in Mississippi have experienced a backwards slide in their quest to achieve representative political power, compared to their numbers, in Mississippi, since 1870.

I am not black, but I have an idea that Rice and Powell are not largely considered role models by other blacks. I do not perceive that either was appreciably successful in their Bush admin. roles. Can you describe the most impressive accomplishment of either of them at the State Dept., or in Rice's role as director of the NSA or as National Security advisor to the president?

Powell's noteworthy achievement was rising in rank to Chair the Joint Chiefs of the US military, but he also either was the man "on the ground" who carried out the assignment to cover up the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, or performed and incompetent inquiry, or both.

I think Rice and Powell are appreciated much more by the conservative community than by the black American community, a situation which can be applied to nearly every black person held in high regard by the conservative community.

I cannot answer that any more than I can say what achievements Tom Delay or Henry Kissenger had. Getting to the role and having the responsibility in and of itself is an achievement. Something it seems like your not giving credit where credit is due.

So MS hasn't had another black senator, are there statistics that show that tens of hundreds have run and not been elected? What of the idea that the voter choice makes it what it is? There is nothing BARRING a black person from trying to attain that position.

What do you do to assuage your own guilt of making all this money off the white man in the market game? Do you tithe to the NAACP or the UNCF?

Or do you do just bully pulpit speaking out in internet forums?

as far as role models are concerned, as I walk about NYC it seems like Fifty Cent, PDiddy, and his kind are the role models that the black community seems to want and reward.

Those that are the stand ups, which you say are only good for the conservatives like Larry Elder and Bill Cosby don't seem to make much headway within their own community.