Black people get in here, lets talk about the elphant in the room!!!

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I'll tell you online that the focus should be on empowering ourselves and not on destroying others, friend.

Would you join the police force or get into politics?
Ive been contemplation running for a political spot in my hometown once i graduate , I'm a chemical engineering major. Germany has a new trend of STEM become politicians and im loving it.
 

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I need to see the link .
The Rev. Al Sharpton, host of msnbc’s “Politics Nation,” spoke at the Greater Grace Church’s services yesterday, and addressed the crisis surrounding Michael Brown’s death from a variety of angles. Of particular interest, though, was one of Sharpton’s challenges to the community itself.

“Michael Brown is gonna change this town,” he said, before criticizing the paltry voting record on the area. “You all have got to start voting and showing up. 12% turnout is an insult to your children.”
That was not an exaggeration. The historical and institutional trends that created the current dynamic in Ferguson – a largely African-American population led by a largely white local government – are complex, but the fact that black voters haven’t been politically engaged has contributed to the challenges facing the community. In the most recent elections, turnout really was just 12%.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/twelve-percent-turnout-insult-your-children
 

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Black people don't know how to be politically organised, most black folks are only concerned about their own personal welfare and have no interest in volunteering or being politically active to support their own community. There was an excellent article on NYT just last week that shows how blacks are being exploited like crazy, they are the ones that provide the most revenue to the city via traffic and court fines yet are left out of the economic benefits through government contacts and subsidies.

St. Louis County contains 90 municipalities, most with their own city hall and police force. Many rely on revenue generated from traffic tickets and related fines. According to a study by the St. Louis nonprofit Better Together, Ferguson receives nearly one-quarter of its revenue from court fees; for some surrounding towns it approaches 50 percent.

With primarily white police forces that rely disproportionately on traffic citation revenue, blacks are pulled over, cited and arrested in numbers far exceeding their population share, according to a recent report from Missouri’s attorney general. In Ferguson last year, 86 percent of stops, 92 percent of searches and 93 percent of arrests were of black people — despite the fact that police officers were far less likely to find contraband on black drivers (22 percent versus 34 percent of whites). This worsens inequality, as struggling blacks do more to fund local government than relatively affluent whites.

Longtime white residents have consolidated power, continuing to dominate the City Councils and school boards despite sweeping demographic change. They have retained control of patronage jobs and municipal contracts awarded to allies.

The North County Labor Club, whose overwhelmingly white constituent unions (plumbers, pipe fitters, electrical workers, sprinkler fitters) have benefited from these arrangements, operates a potent voter-turnout operation that backs white candidates over black upstarts. The more municipal contracts an organization receives, the more generously it can fund re-election campaigns. Construction, waste and other long-term contracts with private firms have traditionally excluded blacks from the ownership side and, usually, the work force as well.
 

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There's multiple reasons why this happens, but I'll name 3 of the most important ones.

1) We're unorganized. The masses of black people not just in Ferguson, are unorganized and do not move as one unified force. Everything we do, we do as individuals and not as a group which makes us weak and easy to destroy.

Point me to a weak nation and I will show you a people oppressed, abused, taken advantage of by others. Show me a weak race and I will show you a people reduced to serfdom, peonage and slavery. Show me a well organized nation, and I will show you a people and a nation respected by the world.

2) We're unconscious. The masses of black people are asleep politically. We know something is wrong in America, but we are either afraid to say it or just don't know the words to say it. We are not conscious of the fact that politics, economics, and education are paramount to our advancement as a race. And because we are not organized, we have no way to bring the unconscious Africans into consciousness.

3) We have no institutions. Because we have been mostly unorganized and unconscious, we haven't built any long lasting institutions that we can use to promote our agenda. No schools, think tanks, political parties, etc.

Eventually black people need to realize that unless we get serious about this problem called white supremacy, we're going to remain in the condition that we are in. Nothing I'm saying is even remotely new. It's been preached by Dr. Claude Anderson, Kwame Ture, Malcolm X, and Marcus Garvey.

The main problem has never been what do we need to do. It's always been are we willing to do the necessary work. Sadly most black people (including the conscious ones) want to take the path of least resistance when it comes to fighting white supremacy. It's why we flock to social media to be "activists" instead of going outside into our communities and getting shyt started.

If you want to fix the problems we face, join an organization and take on a leadership role. There is a humongous need for black male leadership, but not nearly enough people who actually want to be leaders.
 
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