Political Foundations Model/Notes
Democracy means that you view issues of race, gender, sexuality, the environment, the workplace and the like to be crucial spheres where the negotiation over identity, equality, and emancipation takes place.
Democratic principles commit me and should commit you to a relentless quest for the sort of political behavior that speaks to race, class, gender, economic arrangement, and social conditions that promotes a full productive life for the common citizen. This translated means "Good public policy and progressive politics.”
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Pathetic Recollections: The span of a person’s memory to remember situations, which arouse sympathy, sorrow, pity or contempt.
Selective Memory: The ability to remember only those things, which justify ones action; brings a level of comfort and resolutions to issues of critical importance, which you failed to act upon.
Passive Objects Of History: When Afro Americans are viewed as passive objectives of history; Afro Americans history is a record of exclusion of a distinct racial group from the economic benefits, and cultural dilemma of modern society.
Politically, this exclusion has ment white ownership of Afro Americans persons, possessions; server discrimination reinforced by naked violence; urban enclaves of unskilled unemployables and semiskilled workers. Culturally, this has ment continual attempts to undermine Afro Americans self esteem.
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"It is not well to forget the past. Memory was given to man for a wise purpose. The past is the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future
"Well the nation may forget, it may shut its eyes to the past, and frown upon any who may do otherwise, but the colored people of this country are bound to keep the past in lively memory till justice sail be done them.” Frederick Douglass
Active Objects Of History: When Afro Americans are Viewed; as active subjects of history, Afro Americans the story of a, gallantly persistent struggle, of a desperate racial group fighting to enter modernity on their own terms.
Politically, the struggle consist of courageous revolts against white paternalism; institutional building; a cautious reformist strategies.
Culturally, this has ment the maintaince of self-respect and esteem.
Collective Memory: is a metaphor that formulates a people’s retention and loss of information. Every member of society, from, the youngest to the oldest, learns most of what the know through social institutions, oral chronicles, observations collecting, etc. Every one has a story to tell Knowledge is power. Collect and share this data or information with others.
Political Conversation: Purposeful conversation, Conversation which will empower.
Collective Thought: Critical thinking, Evaluate Comprehensively and Strategy development.
Focus Social Action: Purposeful and deliberate action, something planned Formula
Collective Memory + Political Conversation + Collective Behavior + Focus Social Action = A Strong Political Foundation.
Collective thought and social action helps us answer a couple of questions.
1. How are we/I affected
2. What can we /I do to alter the outcome
3. How can we/I become a part of the solution?
Theory 1: Bushnell Hart of Harvard University conceived the Germ Theory, which was taken from the Germans in world war two. The notion of white Anglo Saxton superitiory.
Dubois in the Soul of Black Folks introduces the "Germ Theory” this concept takes the position that each race maintains it's own "race idea and race sprit” embodying its unique gift of humanity.
Dubois in his 1924 essay "of our spiritual Striving" asked the Question "Will America be poorer it replaces it's historical blunders with race compassion and reality."
Theory 2: The Exceptionalist Tradition is one of pride, self-congratulation and often heroism. Afro American is considered to be more humane, meek, kind, creative, spontaneous and nonviolent then members of other races.
Examples of this can been seen:
James Brown and his Song " Say it Loud I'M Black and Proud"
The Music of Public Enemy and Chuck D.
The Poetry of Maya Angelou
The writings of Carnel West and Michael Eric Dyson
The Rap Styling of Common and Laren Hill
In early American history Black religious leaders opposed this tradition because it puts one race over the other and this was against their religious training.
Theory 3: Critical Race Theory grow out of the concept of Collective Memory
It's not wrong to expect justice. It’s not wrong to expect freedom. It’s not wrong to expect equality. Malcolm X
The rules may be, color-blind, but people are not. The question remains, therefore, whether the law can truly exist apart from the color-conscious society in which it exists, as a skeleton devoid of flesh; or whether law is the embodiment of society; the reflections of a particular citizenry's arranged complexity of relations. Patricia J. Williams. 1991
Critical Race Theory
The chief proponent Derrick Bell author of “Faces at the bottom of the well"
Patricia Williams, Charles Lawrence, Lani Gunier to only mention a few, of our brightest legal mind
What is the critical race theory? Critical Race Theory is a new legal approach to legal theory pioneered by minority legal scholars. Critical Race Theory is the discussion of law and race.
Critical race theory borrows from other academic disciplines such as philosophy, literacy criticism and the social sciences. This generally happens through the use of short stories, personal anecdotes or fictional tales, which shows the relationship between race and law. Race perspectives in the law ha been lost until now.
The OJ Simpson case was one by using the critical race theory, because of this historic trail there is a new area of law called Chorcrinism named for Johnny Corcorin.
Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends a letting down the ropes. Only by working together is escape passable.' Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them and us. Derrick Bell
I feel their are three main reasons of the nation's racial crisis and they are:
Black Rage, Given the intensity of black rage and its appeal to a wide constituency, whites are right to be nervous.
White backlash, How can we protect what we have?
Liberal Despair, the debate over multiculturalism and its opponents has encouraged reactionary elements to seize the upper hand in the battle to describe the contemporary social landscape.
But often these critics fail to highlight their own direct complicity in racism, sexism or classism, or their participation in traditions of thought that supply the rational for these problems.
Despite substantial progress over the past few decades, blacks continue to show evidence of despair or a lack of movement, i.e., Texaco, problems in colleges and university admissions, i.e., Prop 205 in California.
I submit to you the following evidence:
The annual income of blacks that are employed in full time jobs amounts to about 60 percent of that of whites.
The black unemployment rate is nearly doubled that of the whole nation.
One third of blacks are poor, compared with just over 10 percent of whites.
Infant mortality rate for blacks is more than is more than double that of whites.
The proportion of black male high school graduates who go on to college is lower today than in 1975.
More young black males are in prison than in college
Homicide is the leading cause of death for black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four.
Although blacks make up 12 percent of the population they account for more than 35 percent of all AIDS cases.
The life expectancy black men is sixty-five years, a rate lower than any other group in America and comparable to that of some Third World countries.
Single women head 48 percent of all black families.
66 percent of black children born each year are out of wedlock.
Taken together, these hardships and inadequacies virtually assure that blacks will not achieve equality of earnings and status with other groups anytime soon. Even more seriously, this threatens to destroy black communities and endanger the economic and physical integrity of the society as a whole.
Cornel West writes in Race Matters, “it is a virtual certainly that racial and sexual discrimination would return with a vengeance”
Columnist, Carl T Rowan accuses opponents of affirmative action of apoplectic spasms of bigotry, which seeks to roll back to a time of segregation and rabid racial discrimination, Al
Willie Brown, Mayor of San Fran then speaker of the Calif. Assembly denounces Prop.205 as " totally and completely racist.
Jesse Jackson accused Ex. Calif. Gov. Pete Wilson and supporters of a color-blind policy of being contemporary incarnations of slave owners and segregationist.
Kweisi Mfume warns that affirmative action advocates will not II go down quietly " and that the battle could " tear the country apart. "
What are we to do, and how can each of us in our own way help to resolve the problems of race in our society. We all must find a way.
Voting and Political Participation: What we fail to understand is that with out guarantees of equal protection and just representation, the interest of black Voters will remain largely unrepresented. The supreme Court's judgments underscores a dilemma the court has failed to successfully address: how our nation can overcome racism without taking race into account.
Democratic principles commit me and should commit you to a relentless quest for the sort of political behavior that speaks to race, class, gender, economic arrangement, and social conditions that promotes a full productive life for the common citizen. This translated means "Good public policy and progressive politics.”
Insert Figure 1
Pathetic Recollections: The span of a person’s memory to remember situations, which arouse sympathy, sorrow, pity or contempt.
Selective Memory: The ability to remember only those things, which justify ones action; brings a level of comfort and resolutions to issues of critical importance, which you failed to act upon.
Passive Objects Of History: When Afro Americans are viewed as passive objectives of history; Afro Americans history is a record of exclusion of a distinct racial group from the economic benefits, and cultural dilemma of modern society.
Politically, this exclusion has ment white ownership of Afro Americans persons, possessions; server discrimination reinforced by naked violence; urban enclaves of unskilled unemployables and semiskilled workers. Culturally, this has ment continual attempts to undermine Afro Americans self esteem.
Insert Figure 2
"It is not well to forget the past. Memory was given to man for a wise purpose. The past is the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future
"Well the nation may forget, it may shut its eyes to the past, and frown upon any who may do otherwise, but the colored people of this country are bound to keep the past in lively memory till justice sail be done them.” Frederick Douglass
Active Objects Of History: When Afro Americans are Viewed; as active subjects of history, Afro Americans the story of a, gallantly persistent struggle, of a desperate racial group fighting to enter modernity on their own terms.
Politically, the struggle consist of courageous revolts against white paternalism; institutional building; a cautious reformist strategies.
Culturally, this has ment the maintaince of self-respect and esteem.
Collective Memory: is a metaphor that formulates a people’s retention and loss of information. Every member of society, from, the youngest to the oldest, learns most of what the know through social institutions, oral chronicles, observations collecting, etc. Every one has a story to tell Knowledge is power. Collect and share this data or information with others.
Political Conversation: Purposeful conversation, Conversation which will empower.
Collective Thought: Critical thinking, Evaluate Comprehensively and Strategy development.
Focus Social Action: Purposeful and deliberate action, something planned Formula
Collective Memory + Political Conversation + Collective Behavior + Focus Social Action = A Strong Political Foundation.
Collective thought and social action helps us answer a couple of questions.
1. How are we/I affected
2. What can we /I do to alter the outcome
3. How can we/I become a part of the solution?
Theory 1: Bushnell Hart of Harvard University conceived the Germ Theory, which was taken from the Germans in world war two. The notion of white Anglo Saxton superitiory.
Dubois in the Soul of Black Folks introduces the "Germ Theory” this concept takes the position that each race maintains it's own "race idea and race sprit” embodying its unique gift of humanity.
Dubois in his 1924 essay "of our spiritual Striving" asked the Question "Will America be poorer it replaces it's historical blunders with race compassion and reality."
Theory 2: The Exceptionalist Tradition is one of pride, self-congratulation and often heroism. Afro American is considered to be more humane, meek, kind, creative, spontaneous and nonviolent then members of other races.
Examples of this can been seen:
James Brown and his Song " Say it Loud I'M Black and Proud"
The Music of Public Enemy and Chuck D.
The Poetry of Maya Angelou
The writings of Carnel West and Michael Eric Dyson
The Rap Styling of Common and Laren Hill
In early American history Black religious leaders opposed this tradition because it puts one race over the other and this was against their religious training.
Theory 3: Critical Race Theory grow out of the concept of Collective Memory
It's not wrong to expect justice. It’s not wrong to expect freedom. It’s not wrong to expect equality. Malcolm X
The rules may be, color-blind, but people are not. The question remains, therefore, whether the law can truly exist apart from the color-conscious society in which it exists, as a skeleton devoid of flesh; or whether law is the embodiment of society; the reflections of a particular citizenry's arranged complexity of relations. Patricia J. Williams. 1991
Critical Race Theory
The chief proponent Derrick Bell author of “Faces at the bottom of the well"
Patricia Williams, Charles Lawrence, Lani Gunier to only mention a few, of our brightest legal mind
What is the critical race theory? Critical Race Theory is a new legal approach to legal theory pioneered by minority legal scholars. Critical Race Theory is the discussion of law and race.
Critical race theory borrows from other academic disciplines such as philosophy, literacy criticism and the social sciences. This generally happens through the use of short stories, personal anecdotes or fictional tales, which shows the relationship between race and law. Race perspectives in the law ha been lost until now.
The OJ Simpson case was one by using the critical race theory, because of this historic trail there is a new area of law called Chorcrinism named for Johnny Corcorin.
Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends a letting down the ropes. Only by working together is escape passable.' Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them and us. Derrick Bell
I feel their are three main reasons of the nation's racial crisis and they are:
Black Rage, Given the intensity of black rage and its appeal to a wide constituency, whites are right to be nervous.
White backlash, How can we protect what we have?
Liberal Despair, the debate over multiculturalism and its opponents has encouraged reactionary elements to seize the upper hand in the battle to describe the contemporary social landscape.
But often these critics fail to highlight their own direct complicity in racism, sexism or classism, or their participation in traditions of thought that supply the rational for these problems.
Despite substantial progress over the past few decades, blacks continue to show evidence of despair or a lack of movement, i.e., Texaco, problems in colleges and university admissions, i.e., Prop 205 in California.
I submit to you the following evidence:
The annual income of blacks that are employed in full time jobs amounts to about 60 percent of that of whites.
The black unemployment rate is nearly doubled that of the whole nation.
One third of blacks are poor, compared with just over 10 percent of whites.
Infant mortality rate for blacks is more than is more than double that of whites.
The proportion of black male high school graduates who go on to college is lower today than in 1975.
More young black males are in prison than in college
Homicide is the leading cause of death for black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four.
Although blacks make up 12 percent of the population they account for more than 35 percent of all AIDS cases.
The life expectancy black men is sixty-five years, a rate lower than any other group in America and comparable to that of some Third World countries.
Single women head 48 percent of all black families.
66 percent of black children born each year are out of wedlock.
Taken together, these hardships and inadequacies virtually assure that blacks will not achieve equality of earnings and status with other groups anytime soon. Even more seriously, this threatens to destroy black communities and endanger the economic and physical integrity of the society as a whole.
Cornel West writes in Race Matters, “it is a virtual certainly that racial and sexual discrimination would return with a vengeance”
Columnist, Carl T Rowan accuses opponents of affirmative action of apoplectic spasms of bigotry, which seeks to roll back to a time of segregation and rabid racial discrimination, Al
Willie Brown, Mayor of San Fran then speaker of the Calif. Assembly denounces Prop.205 as " totally and completely racist.
Jesse Jackson accused Ex. Calif. Gov. Pete Wilson and supporters of a color-blind policy of being contemporary incarnations of slave owners and segregationist.
Kweisi Mfume warns that affirmative action advocates will not II go down quietly " and that the battle could " tear the country apart. "
What are we to do, and how can each of us in our own way help to resolve the problems of race in our society. We all must find a way.
Voting and Political Participation: What we fail to understand is that with out guarantees of equal protection and just representation, the interest of black Voters will remain largely unrepresented. The supreme Court's judgments underscores a dilemma the court has failed to successfully address: how our nation can overcome racism without taking race into account.
