(ThyBlackMan.com) Many are questioning the lack of black support for the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) moment. The most clear general answer I can think of is that when black folks in mass are presented with a choice they ain’t about to go sleep in no damn damp park, when for now they still got a roof over their heads. As acts of defiance go, we don’t view it as a visually appealing spectacle. Sleeping in the park is identified as an act of desperation that happens when you are at the end of your economic rope. Sources of income have dried up, you can’t borrow your way out, friends and family members are unable or unwilling to take you in. Shelters are unbearable and what’s left but the inconspicuous public spectacle of making your way in a card board box? Sleeping tents are usually a valuable commodity at this stage. In the Atlanta encampment a few weeks ago, there were plenty of black people in the park, they just were not there by choice, and clearly, at first both groups kept their eerie distance, except as a mutual curiosity piece. It seems that both sides took stock of a possible attempt to engage in a quick hustle. The homeless look to see what the “liberal” park inhabitants would give up, while the Occupy Wall Street folks hope to get some media millage by cozying up to some real poor people.
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I hear your concerns and complaints about the Occupy movement…
You would receive considerably better treatment at a TEA Party event…
Black protests and TEA Party protests have both been shut-out or marginalized by our mainstream media.
At an Occupy event, you need to wait to see how you are received.
At a TEA Party event, you’d get cookies!