You really think democratic presidents did anything different than republican presidents
Here's a list of Democratic presidents and you tell me how it was better for black people when these presidents were in office
Democratic Presidents
- Andrew Jackson was the gatdam president in 1829 and slavery was still alive and well
- Martin Van Buren was the president in 1837 and black people were enslaved
- James K. Polk was the president in 1845 and blacks were slaves and getting hung from trees and shyt
- Franklin Pierce
- James Buchanan
- Grover Cleveland
- Woodrow Wilson
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Harry S Truman
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon Johnson
- Jimmy Carter
Black people even under the democratic presidents were treated just as bad as when republican presidents were in office.
I wish you thought about the bullshyt that you posted and did some fact checking first
Motherfukkers haven't been listening to the debates? 
EXACTLY. Too often do we just vote and sit back and expect shyt to change. No we need to be active. Not just for police brutality but for all of the injustices we face. Why not a march and protests, with mass turn out over black unemployment?
Man this is some straight up dumb shortsighted bull. Black Americans have never had any politicians straight up look out for them but what they have done is vote for parties or candidates that most align with their issues. And you would have to be deaf, dumb and blind to believe that Republicans and Democrats are on the same side of important issues like economic policies, drug policies, unions, healthcare policies etc. You people in this thread don't seem to actually listen to what these two parties say and how it relates to your daily life because if you did you would understand that the Democrats and Republicans couldn't be further apart. Like this is some basic political science shyt and I have to explain it
Thank you. A poster who finally expresses what Tariq has actually said about the matter and not just taken the hashtag out of context. He has said multiple times he wants black people to have an agenda and money behind our vote so that we can get politicians to push legislation in our favor not just vote blindly for a party because of "tradition" or the "lesser or two evils" reasoning.
THEY BEEN WINNING!!!! WHITE SUPREMACY BEEN A STRONGHOLD!! IM SOO SICK OF YOU NIKKAS,MAN!
They don't hear you.Not voting is silly
The same people who tell you to "get up off your ass and do something to change your situation" are telling you not to vote?
Telling you not to be involved with a local election
a state election
a NATIONAL election?
We should be as involved as possible. We should be flooding the boxes. We should be flooding the twitters of these candidates with questions. We should be calling in and demanding answers. We should NEVER sit back and say "well...neither candidate is going to help me so why vote?"
We spend money on Jordan's, movies, clothes, music, etc. We need to spend money on lobbyists. We need to support local governments or join them. Go to a school board meeting or a town hall meeting. Be as involved as possible. Instead of sitting around listening to podcasts of these clowns telling us what NOT to do.
We live in this country...we have a right to be heard and demand to be heard. Even if the candidates aren't the best. We need to put our money behind candidates we want to support. We need to empower each other to get involved so we can can inspire change. If you live in Chicago, voting may not change the immediate gang violence; but demanding of your school board, demanding of your town hall, demanding of your police chief may change things in a few years.
If those two different issues weren't sepearte you you might have a point.
