The Black Agenda

The Black Agenda

When Father Merrin spake the words, “I do compel you” unto the Demon in “The Exorcist,” said Demon became uncomfortable to say the least.

So too did PBS host Tavis Smiley feel a discomforting compulsion to react when he heard that some black leaders weren’t insisting that President Obama specifically focus on helping African-Americans.

“I was compelled to [call for ‘a black agenda’] because of this debate,” he said.

Now, compulsion is a pretty powerful impulse, an irresistible impetus to act, almost synonymous with an obsession and all because Smiley felt that black leaders were not seeking preferential treatment for one race over another.

To accomplish that “black agenda,” Smiley is organizing a public panel discussion and inviting his own version of America’s black leadership to debate its features and nuances.

Among the invitees are such black luminaries as the racial agitator Reverend Jesse Jackson, the racist Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, and radical black professor, Cornel West. Lesser known but equally venomous activists include Michael Eric Dyson and Julianne Malveaux: http://bit.ly/9y7YJy

Smiley failed to spell out the precise nature and details of his black agenda and presumably we will all be enlightened when the televised Great Discusssion takes place on March 20th.

Meanwhile, out on the Left Coast, 3 white Los Angeles teachers made their own statement about that black agenda. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1540)