{"id":1061,"date":"2019-05-26T07:29:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T12:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2019-09-26T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T14:59:54","slug":"colin-powell-exhibit-a-for-the-black-bourgeoisie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/2019\/05\/26\/colin-powell-exhibit-a-for-the-black-bourgeoisie\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell: Exhibit A for the Black Bourgeoisie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: This is an older post from my Blogger days. Since the halycon days of the Bush Jr. there have been more figures\u00a0 that have joined the list of class collaborators and race traitors that Powell and Rice are already on.\u00a0The top spot on this list now goes to one\u00a0Barack Hussein Obama.\u00a0 He not only managed to betray the hopes of African-Americans, who had a big hand in getting him in office, but\u00a0 through his bail-out of the banks and the signature bill that established Obamacare greatly eroded the fortunes of the larger working class whom he had promised so much. “Hope and change” were made four letter words by Obama’s cynicism and mendacity. When people think of Trump, they should not forget Obama’s huge role in getting him into office. His policies\u00a0massively widened the\u00a0wealth gap and left the 99% grasping at straws. The perfect opening for a demagogue and political charlatan like Donald J Trump. It may be a while before anyone from the Black or Latino community rises, or should I say descends, to knock Obama out of the top spot on the list of betrayers to genuine progress.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

From\u00a0 B. J Sabri’s “The Splendid Failure of Occupation” (appearing at Online Journal):\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As an opportunist Zionist and violent imperialist craving to subjugate the Iraqis to his monovision of the world, Powell did not learn anything significant about the struggle against slavery, colonialism, and imperialism<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is what I have been waiting for. Powell and that now even more powerful “\u0013awful bitch”\u0014 are a complete disgrace. What I have long since recognized is that people of color in this country often enough seem to forget where they, as part of a historically oppressed group, come from. Once they join the ranks of the upper or upper middle classes (Oprah being another prime example in my view) they become Cosbyites (coined in honor (sic) of Bill Cosby). All of a sudden they discover the rhetoric of individuality and personal responsibility. Except that rather than pointing at those of the Class they have joined, who tellingly do not apply the edifying wonders of \u0013personal responsibility\u0014 on themselves, they instead point the finger at those below them that they have left behind. If I had my druthers , Colin Powell would be tried , along with the rest of the Bush criminal Junta, in The Hague for crimes against humanity .<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: This is an older post from my Blogger days. Since the halycon days of the Bush Jr. there have been more figures\u00a0 that have joined the list of class collaborators and race traitors that Powell and Rice are already on.\u00a0The top spot on this list now goes to one\u00a0Barack Hussein Obama.\u00a0 He not only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,165,110],"tags":[85,168,87],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pol","category-race","category-society","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-society","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnniequezada.me\/jqme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}