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Black political leadership

Tuesday, February 6 at 11:43 AM

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By James J. Tenant Lt. Commander, U.S. Navy, Retired, Centennial

I read Bill Johnson’s Jan. 24 News’ column, “Advice to Aurora police chief: Stop strong-arming", and it sounded like something out of the 1960’s, in Bombingham, AL, during Bull Connor’s racist regime. Where are the Front Range’s so-called black political and social leaders, on these basic human-rights abuses? The NAACP and our local black power brokers, have cut and run on these issues. Cops killing innocent blacks and Latinos has seemed to be a blood-sport, for the 17 years I’ve lived in this area. I voted for Gov. Ritter, simply because he wasn’t a Vietnam War draft-dodger. His DA record for prosecuting reckless and renegade Denver cops, who exterminated black and Latino citizens, is non-existent. All of Colorado, across all racial lines, gave Ritter a free-ride regarding his failure to prosecute Denver’s racist cops.

There is a national void with regards to black political leadership. Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier, is the only black politician at any of level of government, that I’ve seen take on very serious issues, that affect all of our citizens. Frazier is very sensible in his push for a regional approach to emergency management and overall disaster preparedness planning. The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) could learn a few lessons from Frazier. This corps of “suits and dresses", has stood moot, while blacks in NOLA were water-boarded, cops murdering NOLA’s blacks, and criminal illegal Mexicans and their gang members, adding to blacks already staggering historical misery-index (lower wages and benefits, resegregating of our neighborhoods, Non-English speaking students retarding black student achievements, re-introduction of communicable diseases that we’ve already cured, GOP union-busting, corruption of black gains made in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, etc.).

It is simply breath-taking, U.S. Rep. Benny Thompson, born and raised in the shadows of massive Mississippi Delta plantations, is endorsing amnesty for criminal illegal Mexicans. U.S. Sen. Obama, the CBC’s leader-of-the-pack, is also skirting blacks’ tough issues with illegal aliens and their organized crimes, police brutality, Bank of Katrina construction contracts and jobs being given to"illegals’ and corrupt contractors, and black disabled combat veterans being denied their employment, disability, and contracting benefits within all federal, state, and local government agencies.

Obama is too pre-occupied with Bodybagdad, Iraq-NAM. Yes, this is a war based on religious persecution, racism, oil-grab, and further entrenching the Middle East, into an even worst plantation. Yes, for the third time in 50 years, we have black soldiers fighting to give foreigners democracy desserts, that they don’t enjoy here at home. However, blacks have their own domestic Iraq-NAM, in the form of losing jobs, economic and social negative impact of criminal illegal Mexicans, and nullification of our votes caused by illegals. Hey! Obama, we have enough beautiful minds.

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