The Cloud of Black Disloyalty

A good post by Cobb back on January 3rd. I've been intending to post this but I have been sluggish about posting here since Wednesday. I just want to pull out the best part of the essay by Cobb...

This is where we are today. My struggle has nothing to do with your struggle. There is no unity, no agenda. There is simply an African American nation of millions. Uncoordinated, but that's OK. Uncooperative, but that's OK. Uninterested, but that's OK. Those of us who took it upon ourselves to put effort and work into what we interpreted as a generational imperative are left with an unfunded mandate. A horse race of thoroughbred ideas with nobody in the stands betting on any of them. We are a small class of breeders and trainers and riders of ideas, plans and schemes which owe great debts to great minds before us. And yet somehow we are left without the instrumentality. This silence is our dilemma. This thing called 'black', these folks called black people. They cannot be compelled to heed our wisdom or our folly. Everybody is making up black as they go along and the question cannot be settled.

What is to be done about this great cloud of black humanity that refuses its master plan?

Nothing. That is the lesson of conservatism. There is no master plan. There is no final solution, and if somebody tells you they have one, kick him in the shins and run away. There should be no umbrella organization. There should be no enforced unity. We think we all share 'struggle' but my struggle is not your struggle. We'd like to believe that something will unite us as a people, but unity as blacks is impractical, and the fact is blackfolks have already voted against it. We continue to. We don't want to be united. We don't need to be united. We are happy in our disloyalty to a single agenda for the race, and we should be.

I'm sure you'll like the rest of this post and how it starts. It started with him recruiting members and raising funds for his student club when he was in college. He had a different idea of what he was doing back then than he would now.

The bottom line is that I agree with him. The idea is that blacks are monolithic. Perhaps blacks aren't as monolithic as perhaps other groups would portray us or even as we may portray ourselves.