The Black community suffers from a paralysis of analysis and an exclusive reliance on laypersons to provide false conclusions on critical questions. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka not only struck down Jim Crow, facially, in education, but it also laid out the legal parameters for the looming civil rights struggle. The lynching of Emmett Till provided the fuel. We must connect the dots.

The Department of Justice was involved in every phase of Brown in the Supreme Court except when it came to enforcing this landmark decision. In 1948, the DOJ expressed its intent to support the NAACP, symbolically, in Supreme Court cases. This prompted then Gov. Strom Thurmond to bolt the Democratic Party and make a run for the White House as a Dixiecrat.

By promising to simply obey the law of the land, after Brown, President Dwight Eisenhower signaled that it would take a non-violent, Judeo-Christian army for Blacks to secure nominal citizenship. Parenthetically, a private army conquered Hawaii for the United States.

This religious army had been in training for more than a decade. The general had been groomed since childhood for this role. The lesson for young Blacks to learn, belatedly, is that struggle of any kind violent or non-violent is based on military protocol, discipline and science.

Daddy King, who was a Morehouse man, went to Germany in the 1930's under the auspices of the Rockefellers, who are also Baptists. When he returned to Atlanta, he changed his son's name from Michael to Martin Luther after the German religious Reformer who began the Protestant Reformation. Names are important and they, in some respect, define people.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott did not happen by accident and Montgomery was the chosen battlefield for the opening salvo. It was located in the Heart of Dixie. Immediately after Plessy v. Ferguson, Montgomery had been the site of a sustained movement against Jim Crow. Resistance had also happened throughout the South.

Rev. Vernon Johns, an accomplished theologian and a prophet with a photographic memory, was dispatched to Montgomery to pastor Dexter Baptist Church and to pave the way for Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Suffice it to say, his presence in Montgomery was not without controversy.

John's background is enlightening. He talked his way into Oberlin College and befriended Robert M. Hutchins, who would later become president of the University of Chicago, established by the Rockefeller family. White religious leaders recognized him as a gifted writer of sermons.

His niece, Barbara Johns, a high school student, led a school strike, in 1951, to protest dilapidated school conditions. This strike, in Prince Edwards County, Virginia, would become one of five cases consolidated in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Factually and complimentarily, Rosa Parks was a Buffalo Soldier. To Indians, the buffalo was a sacred animal. She volunteered to fight the Confederate States of America and she attended boot camp at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. This was a dangerous mission in 1955.

Unbeknownst to most Blacks, big business and the federal government had recruited a private army, rooted in religion, to exorcise Jim Crow from the Confederate States of America. Jim Crow was bad for global business. Thus, the Public Accommodations Law of 1964 is only protected under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

As President Calvin Coolidge stated, The business of America is business. In any struggle, there must be a war chest. Business provided it for the citizenship struggle in the 1950's and 1960's. For free trade, it was a good investment. Genocide in this country, within the next 25 years, will also be a business decision.

The lack of knowledge about the Civil Rights Movement still puzzles many Blacks since it died shortly after 1968. Afterwards, the white establishment created a financial structure in order for Blacks to finance and endorse our own oppression. Genocide is staring us in the face with John Roberts as chief justice and Samuel Alito as a Supreme Court nominee.

Rosa Parks was an NAACP official in Alabama and was allied with E.D. Nixon, a top lieutenant of A. Phillip Randolph. She was extraordinary in being able to bridge the gap between direct action and direct litigation. Direct action would jumpstart the Montgomery Bus Boycott and a Supreme Court ruling would halt it.

Later, the NAACP and SCLC would fight each other over white money. The NAACP's argument for a lion's share of the civil rights budget had been buttressed by its victory in Brown. Thurgood Marshall's approach to civil rights was provincial. In sum, any successful military campaign requires both strategies in addition to a financial mechanism.

Congress passed a resolution for Rosa Parks to lie in honor. This resolution was not an exception to the rule. Her military service was exemplary. She became the first woman and only the second person of African ancestry to receive the honor.

The decision to honor her in the Capitol Rotunda was made by, among others, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group. In this country, there is a secret reason for everything. Similarly, some members of these secret societies were involved in financing the Civil Rights Movement.

Now, many Blacks are clamoring for a national holiday to honor her. This is a laudable goal provided that it is a day of resistance rather than a day of commerce. The Montgomery Bus Boycott stands for the proposition that in order for Blacks to remain oppressed we must cooperate with racism.

We have been programmed to put the cart before the horse. A national holiday should not be the immediate goal. Instead, all cities and towns with demographics like New York City, Newark, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, etc., should make December 1 a municipal holiday. This would show the world our own love for Rosa Parks. Before we move others, we must move ourselves. Whites would have the next move. We must learn to use what's in our hands and exercise political and economic leverage.

The first mayoral debate in New York City occurred on Sunday morning, October 30. Black ministers and elected officials have split their endorsements between Mayor Bloomberg and his challenger, Fernando Ferrer. Blacks can exercise the balance of power in this questionable mayoral election. Unfortunately, there are no demands on the table by the Black community.

In addition to chasing Rosa Parks body around the country, Black leaders should have insisted that both mayoral candidates announce, at the first mayoral debate, that they would call for and immediately sign municipal legislation requiring December 1, 2005, to be a paid, city holiday.

We have been so conditioned to securing jobs and 30 pieces of silver that we have become victimized by missed opportunities. With an annual, municipal budget of more than $40 billion for Bloomberg to divide up with his cartel, the call for another city holiday is only a minor adjustment.

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