Elections
& Power: Pseudo-Political Change in Action
Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi, PhD
The election of Barak Obama as President of the United
States of America does not represent substantive political economic engagement
on the part of the grassroots of the Afrikan Diaspora and it is not real
change.
Instead, the elections are nothing more than apparent
change and are merely an example of elite manipulation of the grassroots for
elite ends.
American politics is primarily Plural-Elitist in nature,
which means that competing elites who agree on the basics of the social order
as well as on the projection of hegemonic power, but who disagree on the
methodology of implementation, engage in structured political campaigns or
combat.
Each is represented in general by one of two parties, and
each sets the rules of political participation so as to eliminate the
development of any real mass oriented populist parties.
The Plural-Elites choose candidates that agree on the
basic rules of the social system and fund them, placing them before the mass
public and to varying degrees opening the corporate media them.
The grassroots are allowed to choose among safe interests
as defined by Plural-Elites.
The sudden ‘rise’ of Barak Obama through the American
political system is akin to the placement of Enslaved Afrikans as Generals in
the Aryan-Arab armies of conquest.
Even when these enslaved Afrikans seized power they ruled
in accordance to Aryan-Arab cultural paradigms.
The power structure, which includes the ruling ethnic[s]
group[s], any police apparatus, governors, bureaucrats, etc., serve, manage,
administrate, enact, and enforce the public policies of the ruling class in a
country in any historical time.
If they seize power ‘illegitimately or obtain it
‘legally’ they rule according to the dictates of the dominant culture, seldom
if ever do they do otherwise.
None of the Enslaved Afrikans who were made generals under
Aryan-Arab domination or who became Caliphs, Viziers and the like used their
power for Afrikan Liberation.
The Afrikan, Septimus Severus who became Emperor of Rome
c. 4443-4452 KC [c. 202-211 CE] was an excellent Roman Emperor ruling according
to the rules set down by Rome from its inception as a regional power in c. 4750
KC [c. 509 CE].
He did not seek to liberate conquered Afrikan lands.
President Barak Obama during his two Presidential
Administrations has continued the economic and military policies that were
implemented by President George W. Bush.
At best President Obama has engaged in pseudo-symbolic
political action towards Afrikan people.
During his administration the fundamental sociological,
economic, political, psychological, historical, and religious relationships
between Eurasians, Americans and Global Afrikans has not changed.
It is still defined by domination.
To go a step further the idea that the Executive office
of any nation is the center of power is obsolete in an International Political
Economy where Corporations weld enormous economic power and paramilitary
capabilities and mass produced sophisticated military weaponry.
