Skip to Content  Occupy Atlanta VS Kasim Reed, the Black
Misleadership Class and the One Percent  Printer-friendly
versionPrinter-friendly version  Why are police across the
country arresting and dispersing occupation sites? And why is
the Black Misleadership Class, and its black Atlanta mayor Kasim
Reed threatened by the occupy movement? Why did Atlanta send
copters, hundreds of police, and spend at least $800,000 to
breakup Occupy Atlanta? Where will it assemble next? Can
homeless Atlanta and Occupy Atlanta work together, and if they
can, will mayor Reed and his friends in the one percent like
that even less?   By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon  Back in
January 2010, I wrote that   the black political elite no longer
believes its mission is to fight for peace and justice. The
newer, more cynical black elite are unmoored from their peace-
and-justice-loving base. They are focused on their own careers,
and the corporate largesse that makes those careers possible...
the black politics of a previous generati