Alors que l’affaire BHO\/Gates a mis en \u00e9vidence des r\u00e9actions violentes des Anglo-Am\u00e9ricains (WASP) aux USA, comme on l’a vu le 3 août 2009<\/a>, un autre aspect de la situation de l’Am\u00e9rique dite \u00ab\u00a0postraciale\u00a0\u00bb est signal\u00e9 par un texte de Chris Hedges, sur Truthdig.com<\/em>, le m\u00eame 3 août 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Le texte est essentiellement bas\u00e9 sur l’argumentation d’un candidat, Africain-Am\u00e9ricain, du parti \u00ab\u00a0vert\u00a0\u00bb US (Green Party<\/em>), LeAlan Jones, candidat pour le si\u00e8ge de s\u00e9nateur de l’Illinois qu’occupait le pr\u00e9sident Barack Obama. Le th\u00e8me abord\u00e9 est exactement l’antith\u00e8se du sujet abord\u00e9 pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment puisqu’il concerne le malaise de la communaut\u00e9 africaine-am\u00e9ricaine, que LeAlan Jones consid\u00e8re comme trahie par ses \u00e9lites qui sont entr\u00e9es dans le syst\u00e8me et jouent un r\u00f4le de repr\u00e9sentation d’une \u00ab\u00a0Am\u00e9rique postraciale\u00a0\u00bb int\u00e9gr\u00e9e, sans le moindre rapport avec la r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Il s’agit d’un cas typique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de la communication, avec sa capacit\u00e9 de repr\u00e9sentation virtualiste de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9. La chose permet \u00e0 un pr\u00e9sident africain-am\u00e9ricain d’\u00eatre \u00e9lu et \u00e0 Lib\u00e9ration<\/em> de faire de beaux \u00e9ditoriaux, mais ne semble pas pour autant r\u00e9soudre la question raciale aux USA, cette fois du point de vue africain-am\u00e9ricain.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Extraits du texte de Hedges:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n «LeAlan Jones, the 30-year-old Green Party candidate for Barack Obama’s old Senate seat in Illinois, is as angry at injustice as he is at the African-American intellectual and political class that accommodates it. He does not buy Obama’s \u00ab\u00a0post-racial\u00a0\u00bb ideology or have much patience with African-American leaders who, hungry for prestige, power and money, have, in his eyes, forgotten the people they are supposed to represent. They have confused a personal ability to be heard and earn a comfortable living with justice.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »\u00ab\u00a0The selflessness of leaders like Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Harold Washington and Medgar Evers has produced selfishness within the elite African-American leadership,\u00a0\u00bb Jones told me by phone from Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »\u00ab\u00a0This is the only thing I can do to have peace of mind,\u00a0\u00bb he said when I asked him why he was running for office. \u00ab\u00a0I am looking at a community that is suffering because of a lack of genuine concern from their leaders. This isn’t about a contract. This isn’t about a grant. This isn’t about who gets to stand behind the political elite at a press conference. This is about who is going to stand behind the people. What these leaders talk about and what needs to happen in the community is disjointed.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »Jones began his career as a boy making radio documentaries about life in Chicago’s public housing projects on the South Side, including the acclaimed \u00ab\u00a0Ghetto Life 101.\u00a0\u00bb He knows the world of which he speaks. He lives in the troubled Chicago neighborhood of Englewood, where he works as a freelance journalist and a high school football coach. He is the legal guardian of a 16-year-old nephew. And he often echoes the denunciations of black leaders by the historian Houston A. Baker Jr., who wrote \u00ab\u00a0Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n »Baker excoriates leading public intellectuals including Michael Eric Dyson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Shelby Steele, Yale law professor Stephen Carter and Manhattan Institute fellow John McWhorter, saying they pander to the powerful. He argues they have lost touch with the reality of most African-Americans. Professor Gates’ statement after his July 16 arrest that \u00ab\u00a0what it made me realize was how vulnerable all black men are, how vulnerable are all poor people to capricious forces like a rogue policemen\u00a0\u00bb was a stunning example of how distant from black reality many successful African-American figures like Gates have become. These elite African-American figures, Baker argues, long ago placed personal gain and career advancement over the interests of the black majority. They espouse positions that are palatable to a white audience, positions which ignore the radicalism and structural critiques of inequality by W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. And in a time when, as the poet Yusef Komunyakaa has said, \u00ab\u00a0the cell block has replaced the auction block,\u00a0\u00bb they do not express the rage, frustration and despair of the black underclass.<\/em>»<\/p>\n<\/p>\n