All responses are welcome.
A lot of times when i think about the black political power, i come away discouraged by the prospects. I feel that collectively we are more or less locked in to whatever the left offers us. This i believe does not incentivize any real change or solutions for the left to implement because black peoples issues are not on the forefront of the Left in general.
You can argue this but in general i belief the democratic party essentially just has us in their back pocket and does not really fight for our cause. On a National level i believe we need to separate ourselves from any alignment and begin to focus all our attention on ourselves on how to get politicians to acknowledge our problems and at least give us direct promises that they will attempt to solve them.
This is my idea for a national Political Union of sorts, or a black party membership.
The Black Party Union would be political organization that would gather African Americans of all backgrounds into a singular force in order to show a concrete voting block that could help sway elections. This in turn would give the Black community influence on a national level politically. Think of how a union works for a factory, it would be the same thing with this political union.
Union members would receive a card with their name on it as proof of membership, in order to stay in the Union they would pay 5 dollars a month and this money would go into funding any political push needed.I chose 5 dollars a month because even the poorest black person can spare 5 dollars a month, its not an exact science so the price of membership can change im just throwing an idea out there.
Now imagine if millions of black voters were members of this union, now come election season we have a Union that can walk up to both the Democrats and Republicans and say "What do you have to offer us?" With millions of Votes as our bargaining chip we can extract much better promises and guarantees i believe from elected leaders. We can also hold the democratic party hostage to an extent with our voting power, the Democrats need us on their side to win elections and we are one of their strongest and safest bases.
Now we can put some fire on their feet to actually do something that will bring change to our communities. All for 5 bucks a month.
Anyway just thought of this one the drive to work today, let me know what yall think.
Dumb?
Could never happen?
All opinions are fine.
A lot of times when i think about the black political power, i come away discouraged by the prospects. I feel that collectively we are more or less locked in to whatever the left offers us. This i believe does not incentivize any real change or solutions for the left to implement because black peoples issues are not on the forefront of the Left in general.
You can argue this but in general i belief the democratic party essentially just has us in their back pocket and does not really fight for our cause. On a National level i believe we need to separate ourselves from any alignment and begin to focus all our attention on ourselves on how to get politicians to acknowledge our problems and at least give us direct promises that they will attempt to solve them.
This is my idea for a national Political Union of sorts, or a black party membership.
The Black Party Union would be political organization that would gather African Americans of all backgrounds into a singular force in order to show a concrete voting block that could help sway elections. This in turn would give the Black community influence on a national level politically. Think of how a union works for a factory, it would be the same thing with this political union.
Union members would receive a card with their name on it as proof of membership, in order to stay in the Union they would pay 5 dollars a month and this money would go into funding any political push needed.I chose 5 dollars a month because even the poorest black person can spare 5 dollars a month, its not an exact science so the price of membership can change im just throwing an idea out there.
Now imagine if millions of black voters were members of this union, now come election season we have a Union that can walk up to both the Democrats and Republicans and say "What do you have to offer us?" With millions of Votes as our bargaining chip we can extract much better promises and guarantees i believe from elected leaders. We can also hold the democratic party hostage to an extent with our voting power, the Democrats need us on their side to win elections and we are one of their strongest and safest bases.
Now we can put some fire on their feet to actually do something that will bring change to our communities. All for 5 bucks a month.
Anyway just thought of this one the drive to work today, let me know what yall think.
Dumb?
Could never happen?
All opinions are fine.
