Ronald Reagan
Historically politics has never been kind to Black people. The very nature of politics is rooted in racism. White Europeans claimed complete control of the political process in America at the expense of native americans and especially Blacks.
Strong Black voices that advocate for Black issues are rare in the political realm. This exclusion of voices who advocate for Black issues is a bi-partisan effort. Democrats and Republicans have both benefited from the political silencing of Black Americans.
The current presidential primary campaigns feature a variety of candidates and only one of them offers any agenda for Black issues. Black Americans have a strange loyal historical relationship with Democratic Party. The inner workings of these political parties make it counter productive for Blacks to support either party.
Bill Clinton
Politicians are friendly and associate with each other regardless of their political party alignments. They live in the same neighborhoods, dine together, entertain together and their kids go to the same schools. When they perform theatrics in the media to divide and deceive the country’s working class and poor it is insincere. The party lines are superficial in the past they have actually switched views.
Not one president Democratic or Republican has EVER focused on Black interests at any point in history. Below are four politicians past and present that many black people hold in high regard and consistently support, yet they have been detrimental to Black people’s existence:
Abraham Lincoln
- Alleged to have freed enslaved Africans in america, actually did not free slaves. He did not free slaves in the North but freed slaves in states that had succeeded from the union which he had no jurisdiction over at that time. Lincoln also attempted to negotiate a deal with confederate to allow them to keep slaves for 40 more years if they would end the succession. He had no interest in slaves well being.
John F. Kennedy
- When protesters for Civil Rights in Alabama were being brutalized by law enforcement, racists and other white supremacist, Kennedy claimed he did not have the authority to send troops in to help the Black protestors.
- He then sent troops to Alabama to act as peace makers after the Blacks had demonstrated their ability to defend themselves.
Bill Clinton
- 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill included 3 strikes Policy, children as young as 13 being prosecuted as adults, $9.85 Billion for new prisons, federal guideline sentencing and more negative policies.
- The JPI report reveals that 225,000 more Blacks were incarcerated under Clinton than under President Reagan.
- Charter School boom created under his administration. Charter schools would eventually monetized Black children’s educational failures for private corporation profit.
Hillary Clinton
- Was well aware of the policies that her husband implemented during his presidency and never spoke out against them.
- 5 of her campaign bundlers work for lobbying and law firms that CCA and other private prisons employ.
Barack Obama
- While national unemployment has improved under his presidency black unemployment has remained the same and at times increased under his presidency.
- Since President Obama’s first day in office the CCA and The GEO Group have been awarded $1.7 and 1.8 billion dollars in federal contracts, respectively.
- Poverty level of black people has continued to increase under his presidency.
- On the 40th anniversary of her arrest, the FBI suddenly put Assata Shakur on the Ten Most Wanted Terrorists List. The reward for her capture has been doubled to $2 million.
The Party name is irrelevant they are both the same for Black people
Blacks are in a familiar yet very awkward position. No matter who they vote for, they will not benefit and likely will suffer. Kanye West once famously said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” a more accurate phrase would have been “Politicians who support white supremacy (seems to be 99.9% of all politicians) don’t care about black people”. Republicans continue racist rhetoric in the media while Democrats are worse as the play the role of the fox in sheep’s clothing, deceiving blacks with policies that always have negative long term impact.
Voting as a singular strategy to create economic change is absolutely worthless and voting exclusively democrat is not only worthless but insane. We have had voting rights since 1965, 50 years and our economic and social conditions are no better.
Economic empowerment comes from specific actions. Blacks must engage in these actions:
- Release any default political affiliations and identify yourselves as independent.
- Understand that voting is worthless without money and a lobby group who will transfer the money to politicians in exchange for support of the black agenda.
- Vote as a unified group for an Independent party.
The above action points rely on an agenda to serve as the reason for the action points. The below agenda is one that I would suggest for Black people It does not speak for all Black people but its a good start.
Black American Agenda
- Negotiate a reparations agreement for Black Americans that involves land, tax breaks, free education, control of certain resources and support for HBCUs as the core of settlement.
- Abolish 21st Century Slavery with the removal of the 13th Amendment Clause, that allows legal slavery.
- Enforcing the The Black Freedman Indian Treaty of 1866.
- Create Affirmative Action-like plan specifically for black people.
- Reconstruction of Public School Education.
- Reconstruction of legal and law enforcement system.
This is one part of revolution yet a very necessary part. This process has to be part of the Black movement.
you force us to react and operate outside of the system. With every murder of an unarmed black person at the hands of police there is the immediate use of propaganda to criminalize the Black victim even if the victim has no criminal record. Its so infuriating. The facts, procedures, information and propaganda surrounding the murder of Sandra Bland is enough to make an
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