Core Values
... never-forsaken dreams of domestic and planetary racial conquest were given a Frankenstein-like jolt and boost by the Bush regime, which spoke directly to the predatory core of American myth and historical practice.
From Glen Ford and Peter Gamble's The McKinney Affair: Rampaging Racism and a Cowardly Congress. The piece is about the relationship of the Congressional Black Cacus and the House Democratic Leadership, and I recommend reading it. Twice.
It is a fact of life that Indians and Africans in the Americas don't have working institutional relations. The NAACP has no issue room for Tribal Sovereignty or misplaced trust, for anything rural and reservation, or urban but status Indian. The NCAI and the UCAS have no issue room for affirmative action, other than Indian Preference in DOI/BIA hires, or set-asides, other than ..., or gerrymandering and ballot suppression, except in Rice vs Cayetano, and then only because that is a coded case for Indian Status, and part of the Alaska and Hawai'i Territorial Acts, or anything urban but land-into-trust, aka Indian Gaming.
It is an imperfect world. The Democrats are an imperfect party.
We won't see the Black members of the CBC standing next to the Indian members of the CNAC, messaging that Abramoff means dozens of House races are suddenly competitive, not "its time to help McCain keep Indian Gaming out of the reach of suburbia". We also won't see Tribal money go into congressional races where candidates of color are competitive, but no "Indian Issues" are present.
Via Avedon Carol's Sideshow.