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Dear Mr. Wickham (or my Dear Brother),

A good friend emailed your article [here ] to my attention.  The article was informative, concise and well written....you apply your craft well.  While I know that most newspapers are generally written for 8th grade level comprehension based on the Flesch index, this commentary doesn't seek to address this reality, nor is it a pot shot at Massa' media in general.  However, an aspect of your article I would like to point out and bring some conceptual clarity to is that there is a huge distinction (and common conflating) between racism and bigotry (it appears in the article as if you're using them interchangeably).  The former is a system of sustained power dynamics (contrived econmonic disequilibrium), and the latter is of the personal and social variety (bias, prejudice, cultural conditioning, etc).  

In my opinion, your notion of "the profit motive eventually trumping racism" is naively misplaced.  I won't go into the historical, geopolitical, socioeconomic, and current realities of why this hasn't been and currently isn't the case, but suffice it to say that under the scenario layed out by your article, the only empowerment coming to Blacks in this scenario is perhaps paid celebrities and other actors/hip-hoppers, etc. getting paid to be in advertisements for Caddies (aggrandizing consumerism).  This remuneration is not (doesn't equate to) empowerment because select few individuals are getting paid personally which doesn't accrue to any institutionalized form of economic empowerment in the form of let's say increased dealerships owned by Blacks or additional Black-owned companies created that supply major parts to GM.  Blacks buy Caddies as consumers.  Blacks pitch Caddies to consumers.  Why should we grope in the pitch black dark of economic consumerism and choke on the wishbone (of the bling and never the real thing) casted down from the feeding-frenzy feast in the neoconomy of too-late monopoly capitalism?  Where's the beef of business ownership?   

If you want to talk about trumping racism (economic, as that is the only kind the term is worthy of connotating in any real context) then Caddilac (the owners of the company of course) would be talking about diversity of inclusion by seeking a group of Black investors to own a percentage of the company or outright own a subsidiary opening up a manufacturing plant in China (or eventually Africa or Brazil) selling to the Chinese, Africans and Brazilians.  

It's more reality-based to look at ownership (or ownership percentage) first and control secondly when we speak of racism or empowerment and then relegate Black faces spitting another race's (owner's) aces in a deck that's still loaded (where the Joker's still wild as long as the joke is still on us being content as consumers and not producers and owners) to latter-day economic minstrel shows.  Progess?  Maybe.  We might drive, pitch or even own Caddies....but we're still Lackin' as long as we're being pimped (viewed as) consumers only (victims of some auto Mackin').  We've got a long way to go, before our bling shines long enough to glow, past the flash, the quick cash, and the minstrel show.

Please read or reference if you haven't already......

"Black Labor White Wealth"  by Dr. Claud Andersen
"Blueprint for Black Power"  by Dr. Amos Wilson
"Flight From Inflation"  by E.C. Riegel
"FUNKTIONARY"   by Dr. Varius Blynd

When the fifth plank of the Communist manifesto is "centralization of credit in the hands of the State" and this is what the Federal Reserve is both dejure and defacto ("the Federal Reserve works only with credit" Fed Reserve Pub.), then what we perceive as capitalism (based on labels) is the same underlying economic and monetary foundation as communism and socialism.

"If you don't understand racism white supremacy, everything else you think you understand, will only confuse you."  Dr. Neely Fuller, Jr.

Respectfully,
Tellis Moore, Ph.F.
Staff Scribe, Hard-On News