At this point I’m starting to feel JFK a lot more, everyone is looking to the government like their daddy but no one is looking at themselves.
Yes the government has to do shyt, but the impact will be lost if people keep on moving like they have been. There was a time when the government was trash and racist, yet our wealth, education and on kept on increasing. Not just the top 10% AAs as today, but the whole distribution of AAs.
1) Diddy is in a position where he could organize Jay Z and other top earning Hip Hop moguls and start their own party or organization for the betterment of our people. I am not talking about on the microscopic level, but on a grand scale. He won't do it because he's still out here essentially begging politicians who are voted in to represent and protect the interests of the voting majority (note to Diddy: it ain't us).
2) When has the Black vote EVER been free. Blood was shed to earn the right that others were born with.
3) He's talking about we're going to have to see promises. That's ALL we've seen. They make promises with NO intent to keep them and have done it since they have been in this country. It is how they got in power in the first place. "I will give you X in exchange for Y" while secretly knowing they weren't going to uphold their end of the deal is basically how they stole land from Indians and put them on reservations.
Why would anyone start their own party. If the country is 52% Democrats and 48% R, but the opposite due to the fukked up electoral college system. Then why would anyone want to steal voters from the democrats. Then we might as well have Rs forever. The best thing that happened to the Rs is the Libertarians dying and the Green Party creepin on a come up.
The best thing for everyone is to influence the party from within, the black people in the party are among the most conservative as of the past few decades. We need fresh powers coming in, as we saw in the last midterm, this will happen. But in the largest and most complex democracy, such things do not happen over night.