Tariq hasn't been affecting black politics but for 3 going on 4 years. Black people from what I've seen have been disengaged from the process for awhile. They might vote for President, but that's it unfortunately. In the past 50 years, what does the data show concerning black engagement on federal, state, and local elections, census, going to town halls? I have a feeling that data is gonna show we haven't been very engaged in those areas.
Ferguson is 70% black and yet City Hall and the police department is 70% non-black. How much of that is racism and how much of that disengagement? If we need data, it's for situations like that.
We posted the voting numbers for blacks in America several times before. I'll find a thread with the graphs.
Poltical engagement also involves being informed about issues.
These youtubers and the rise of clowns as thought leaders coincides with the decline of Black(owned) media. There is a current generation that has grown up without ready access to Black owned media and journalism. Perhaps the first in DECADES. The issues affecting the communities, are not being brought to Black audiences FROM black media outlets. The dumbing down is REAL.
In that void, entertaining media figures are who people turn to for information.
I get it, people turned their back on the old guard...but these yters AIN'T IT. Our communities are regressing. We can't afford that.
as far as Ferguson, or any other city. The next election after a police killing, if the Black voter registration numbers don't spike up......then politicians won't take that community seriously.
