Now that I've slept on the idea I have found a more concise way of expressing it:
The import of black unity being dead is that there is no national program necessary for black leadership and it is an error to assert racial solidarity. It's like herding cats.
The import of not second-guessing blackfolks is that the fundaments of values born in black nationalism remain in operation whether or not any leadership is expressed or attempted. African America is indeed a nation, and thus behaves like every other nation. Consequently what works for any nation works for African America, most importantly what doesn't work for any nation won't work for African America.
The consequences of these two axioms is that Socialist projects of any sort arranged for the benefit of African Americans are doomed to failure, firstly because any political effort to unify them on behalf of getting them will fail, and secondly because socialism itself will fail and thirdly because in the context of a multi-racial republic, a unique distribution of benefits is problematic. Therefore African Americans, like any other free people are best dealt with in the context of free actors in free markets.
Blackness, therefore is a bourgie cultural construct of free will, and conflicts between visions of blackness, just like any other fungible commodity, will be subject to market forces.
From the Old School perspective the realization that blackness itself is a commodity comes as a shock. The impulse is to regulate it. The question then becomes who will retain the energy to employ this commodity to their benefit and thereby own it. And so I see a clash between classes of African Americans over its prospects which may yet be outdone by a third set of actor: everybody who has no dog in the blackness fight.
I believe that the only way to recover any lasting meaning is to side with black elites in their struggles for social power in America, as exemplified by the coaltion that purchased the King Papers. This will simultaneously give encouragement to ordinary and dysfunctional blackfolks should they sign on to any idea of blackness. If this doesn't happen, the meaning of blackness will suffer and be degraded back to the level of Negro. A) because of racism of the non-African Americans or B) because of the degeneracy of those African Americans not signed onto American middle class values.
Ugency is attached to this because it is the fault of black liberation that black anti-sociability and anti-Americanism gained currency in the first place.
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