The Political Solution for African-Americans is Our Own Political Party

Should we have an African-American political party?

  • Yes

    Votes: 58 93.5%
  • No

    Votes: 4 6.5%

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The Odum of Ala Igbo

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I have to sit on this but what stops this party from being bought out?

Nothing prevents that. Personally, I'd like campaign finance reform to be a part of the party's agenda.

Limit donations to individuals (no unions or businesses). Limit of $1200 per year. Let's try to make that become law. In the meantime, to avoid being bought out the party could practice that.
 

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Republicans would just tell any black Democrat to vote for your party.

As for the great migration back to the South, :laff: good luck

Yea that is until they start feeling the effects in congress and the senate. See technology would allow this party to set up a site to notfiy a person based on an address which people running support our initiatives.

Would be a good way to gather funds to help local elections. Spur voter drives in the inner city. Combine it with a youth center events or BBQs.
 

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I like the idea but how would this work in a state like Alabama?

Electorally capture Black majority cities. Then, move up to the state legislature to further our goals and protect/enlarge the autonomy of cities. Black-run cities are under threat via Emergency Control or stripping away powers over water/electricity/airports etc. We must fight them on all fronts.

Use our leverage in the state legislature to further our goals.
 

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You have way too much false faith in the political system and the way they make it appear to work to the average man.
 

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There can never be a "Black peoples political party", because Black people are not a monolith. There can be a Political Party run by people who are black for people who share their ideologies though.

People are too fixated on saving all black people which is impossible and will never happen. At the end of the day people should build and work with people who have common ideologies with them, and just show common decency to blacks who do not agree with them. But for some odd reason Black people try to force everyone to have the same ideals which is simply impossible thus there is always debating and in fighting.
 

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There can never be a "Black peoples political party", because Black people are not a monolith. There can be a Political Party run by people who are black for people who share their ideologies though.

People are too fixated on saving all black people which is impossible and will never happen. At the end of the day people should build and work with people who have common ideologies with them, and just show common decency to blacks who do not agree with them. But for some odd reason Black people try to force everyone to have the same ideals which is simply impossible thus there is always debating and in fighting.

Scottish people are not a monolith. Sikhs aren't a monolith. Quebecois are not a monolith. And yet, they each have their own political parties.

History has shown that even when white elites share the same ideologies with Black people, we are still betrayed. Which is why we've had:
- the End of Reconstruction
- The Betrayal of Black people during the New Deal
- The War on Drugs
- Neoliberal triangulation during the 1990s etc. etc. etc.

Read the first post. Black people have distinct and unique circumstances which make their interests separate from the rest of American society. Moreover, the two party duopoly has no interested in rectifying our socio-economic inequality vis-a-vis the rest of our so-called American brothers and sisters.
 

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Yes, that's how the current paradigm works. But no condition is permanent.

And you wanna change the paradigm by doing what?, creating a new gimmick and taking a spot on the roster. You wanna change it you gotta be Vince McMahon, the parties and presidents are not Vince McMahon
 
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