LOL ... And who's going to present that agenda? Here's a little secret Paul: Black people don't control black politics. That has been ceded to the Democrat party, its leaders and activists a long time ago. For example, remember when BLM was going to protest the mask mandate for restaurants in NYC after the Carmine's incident. Well, the activists (white Democrats) were people who supported the mandate. Hear about any protests? I mean, what does the Congressional Black Caucus do to advance the "Black Agenda"? Nothing, except get rich on the taxpayer's dime. We demanded police reform when Biden was elected. ANY indication that it's going to be looked at? Why should they? The black community is going to give the Democrats their vote regardless if they offer anything or do anything to advance a black agenda other than say words. You want something done? Divorce the Democrat party and start using some leverage to get what the community is after.
I think I heard somewhere that if Black America was a country, we would be in the top 20 countries in the world by GDP. For someone who has actually lived in countries outside the US, we do a lot better here in other places. Name me one country that has produced more black billionaires, millionaires and people making six-figure incomes than the US? The wealth of the South before the Civil War was built on black labor. Jim Crow was as close to systemic racism we've had since then. It wasn't a trap to us being in a labor, consumer, and prison class of people. That ish started after LBJ's policies when into effect. Also, lots of us aren't victimized by white people because we're poor. If anything, we're victimized by people who need us to feel like we can't overcome to keep them in power.
The Jews, themselves, hunted down people who were Nazis. The US, probably, was involved when we were fed information that X person was a Nazi in their past. However, the US is also known for taking certain Nazis and incorporating them when it was advantageous to us. So you want Nuremburg trials? Who should be put on trial that's still living? So white supremacy should be criminalized and outlawed? Well, as someone who have lived in Germany, it's not outlawed there. Hell, they have their own political party (The National Democratic Party) that espouses those kinds of views.
Police are the enforcement arm of white supremacy. Oh boy. Shall I get you a fainting couch so you lie down and clutch your pearls? Please, show your work that these officers are white supremacists. I mean, if any of these cases we've heard in the news had a police officer that was a white supremacist, that would've been all over the news. Just because a white cop deals with an unarmed black person doesn't make a supremacist. Unless you have some receipts, I'll dismiss this as hyperbolic rambling.
Drugs aren't what increases the changes of a black child failing schools. Having a student & parents who don't care about getting an education plus a school administration & board of education that don't want to correctly fail students because of fear of losing funding because of "No Child Left Behind" greatly increases black kids dropping out of school & winding up either in prison or dead. If they're behind by the time they reach the 5th grade, good luck in reversing that. I'd like to see evidence where a person's check is increased by claiming your child has ADHD or some other learning disability. I mean, there was a situation in Baltimore where a black student was a senior in high school with a little more than a .1 GPA. .1 GPA? That's sad, but worse than that, he was 64th in a senior class of 120. So there were 56 other students with as bad or a worse GPA than that? The national HQ for the NAACP is also in Baltimore. Know what the leader of the NAACP said in response to this happening in his city? Nothing. There aren't protests in neighborhoods demanding better schools and an actual education for black kids. You think if the kind of nonsense that goes on in major urban city schools would have happened out in the suburbs that the next board of education meeting wouldn't be jam packed with parents letting their feelings be known?
A black person who gets shook looking a statue of Lee or Jackson has a real first world problem. Blacks in other parts of the world have a lot more serious things to worry about than a statue. I mean, is Lee or Jackson going to take the bench and rule on cases? Baltimore is one pace to hit 300 homicides for the 8th straight year. But they did remove all the confederate statutes in the city years ago. A lot that has done to improve the city.
So in major urban cities, the solution is go all black contractors. The way to solve "racist" contracts is to created more "racist" contracts, but let it benefit a different race instead. This is what passes for logic & reason? This may be the one I agree with you, somewhat, in that black companies can't get the opportunity to get the big contracts without being able to be given the chance to show their abilities on smaller projects. Now, there's no way the government is going to tell a business owner that you have to enter a partnership with anyone they don't want to to do business in a city. Do we tell a Democrat mayor that you have to have a Republican in their office with 50% say on how you run your city or vice versa?
The issue is that we're not a permanent underclass. I sure don't consider myself to be part of the underclass. Not hanging out with the 1%, but not trying to make a dollar out or 15 cents either. We have those who will be a permanent underclass, but that's because they CHOOSE to do the things that will keep them a member of the underclass and then put the next generation on the same path. My folks grew up in middle Georgia during Jim Crow not in best of conditions with houses, schools or opportunities. Now, they own two houses in two different states. One generation broke the chain of poverty. They're not anything special. If they could it, anyone else can do it as well. Except if you want to wallow in one's victimhood and hope that the government, who really don't care about us anyway except for votes, comes and save the day (which they won't).
You want the government to do things, but I don't see anywhere in that screed about what WE need to do to make things better. Didn't your momma teach you that "God helps those who help themselves.". Where's OUR demands for an ACTUAL education to compete in the global economy? How are WE dealing all these single-parent households? Holding white supremacists responsible for things happening in our communities when they wouldn't be caught dead in them is counter-productive. Who in OUR HOUSE are we holding accountable for what our neighborhoods have become? Why do they need to do anything if we're willing to destroy ourselves? We have all these entertainers and athletes. Why aren't they pooling money or resources together for black businesses? They can provide the "seed money" that black entrepreneurs can go to jumpstart their businesses instead of dealing with banks. Can't we do our own version of Shark Tank? They have the connections and can get doors opened for people. For example, Tyler Perry uses his studio to allow up and coming black filmmakers to work on their craft. Malcolm X had the saying that only the black community will solve the black community's issues, but way too many of us have grown too intellectually lazy to put in that work needed to figure it out.