Why are you quoting my question but not answering the question in the post?
Anyway, you can see progress in fair housing laws and against redlining whenever Democrats control HUD as one example. Expansion of benefits like SNAP benefits, typically done under Democratic leadership, helps to at least patch the economic damage that GOP leadership does to black Americans every time they get in office and set us back. The ACA legit saved black lives, especially poorer black folks in states that expanded Medicare and Medicaid. I know it legit helped members of my family get health care they needed that they could actually afford.
These are just a few things - there are more - but none of them are sexy because we're in a country that a) is mostly white and b) that has a party of almost all white people that gets in power and basically kills black people as much as possible before the Dems get in and have 2-4 years to stop the bleeding with a D-D-D government.
OK, so "not voting" gets you nothing. If every black person in America didn't vote and Biden won, the lesson is, "Don't need the black vote to win, don't be concerned with helping them." If every black person in America didn't vote and Biden lost, the response would be to move to the right, which would make life worse for black folks.
That crime bill we all hate so much is a result of Democrats getting worked by Reagan and Bush for twelve straight years and the party moving to the right to attract more white voters by picking that cracka-ass cracka Bill Clinton from motherfukking Arkansas, a man who showed that he could be tough on crime too by killing a mentally-deficient black man who didn't understand that he committed a crime in the electric chair as part of his campaign.
We know from history that Democrats move right when they can't win. Why? Because most of the voting public is white.
So I still don't see what not voting does just based on a knowledge of history and how outnumbered we are.
Per your second response, what other possibility of getting "what you want" do you have other than through government, that thing which has an effect on your life no matter how much you ignore it?
If you want reparations, for example, where are they coming from if you choose to sit out government participation? If you want to get money and property for yourself individually, I guess you can do that, but if Republicans get power and put up anti-black roadblocks (like the Trump cabinet is doing right now in places like HUD), then you might not be so lucky.
It's like, I'm genuinely willing to go a different way if y'all "withhold your vote" people could show me one that makes sense because incrementalism isn't great. It's just the best possible options out of all the options.
