Black People Politics : WHY VOTING ALONE CAN NOT AND WILL NOT BE ENOUGH!

Supreme Court strikes down limits on federal campaign donations

By Robert Barnes April 2
The Supreme Court’s divisive decision Wednesday striking down a Watergate-era
limit on campaign contributions was the latest milestone for conservative justices
who are disassembling a campaign finance regime they feel violates free-speech rights.


The
5 to 4 decision — striking down the limit on the total amount of money wealthy
donors can contribute to candidates and political committees — was the fifth since Chief

Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. joined the court that agreed
with constitutional arguments challenging laws designed to blunt the influence of

money in politics.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...e16c30-ba74-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html
 
Questions grow on U.S. lobbyists with strong ties to Chinese
firm linked to espionage worries


By Richard Pollock | April 26, 2013 |
An aggressive drive to acquire American telecommunication companies by
a Chinese firm tied closely to the Peoples' Liberation Army and represented
by some of Washington's most powerful lobbyists appeared to have ended
Tuesday, but was back in high gear by the end of the week.


The Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies said Tuesday that it was no longer
interested in the U.S. market, despite being the world's second-largest provider
of broadband net-gear and having significant commercial partnerships with
multiple firms here, including a $600 million tie-up with Clearwire Corp.


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/q...m-linked-to-espionage-worries/article/2528224

 
the primary reason that voting alone can not and will not be enough rests on the fact that the game keeps changing. This history lesson is a prime example of our lack of knowledge on how the gub'ment has and continues to work against the collective community known as [people of colour]. And until we learn how the system really works and how it is that we can develop our own political platform everything WE think we know will only continue to confuse US.


Great Topic!
I agree, especially with the building of
the economic base. How do with drill
that message into the black collective?

How do we get that message across
in the mainstream? Meaningful and
substantive dialogue, that is.

Exerpts from James Clingman's article:
Blackonomic$: Symbolism without Substance
—Ferguson to Jena


...There are many instances of Black men killed by police with
impunity. So what’s my point? Well, as I watched the church
services and listened to the speeches in Ferguson, I eagerly
awaited the speakers’ solutions. I could have missed it, but I never
heard a solution that centered on economics. I heard the

obligatory voting solution, in light of an embarrassing 12
percent turnout among Black voters, but an “I Voted!”
sticker will not stop a policeman’s bullet, and voting
alone will not change our condition in this nation.


Money runs politics, and when campaign donors are against
something they will get results from the politicians they support,
especially when their bottom-line is adversely affected. For
example, can you imagine Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, Coca
Cola CEO Muhtar Kent, Pepsi Cola CEO Indra Nooyi, NBA
Commissioner Adam Silver, Nike CEO Mark Parker, McDonald’s
CEO Donald Thompson, Diageo Liquor’s CEO Ivan Menezes, and
even Anheuser Busch’s CEO Thomas Santel, standing before
national media and calling for an end to injustices against Black
people? Nothing personal against these companies; it’s just as they
say in war, “collateral damage.” But the damage would stop when
the folks who run this country speak out....

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_101743.shtml
 

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