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How Blacks Can Remain United & Still Strategically Go After Reparations in America
The Plan
Each city in America that has a Black majority needs to make a list of 20 of the most important issues that must be attended to. Do this by conducting multiple city hall meetings with a set agenda to highlight these 20 most dire issues in your community. This is the first step in figuring out the Black agenda for your community.
Every American city with a Black majority needs to groom & roll out new representatives who support reparations. (State and local government.) These individuals need to run for office with the list of 20 issues while being in full support of reparations. These individuals must be vetted and must be 100% down with reparations for Black Americans … They will ultimately run for state and local government jobs on a platform of the 20 issues selected by the community.
The community will put money behind these candidates to get them elected into state and local government (in majority Black districts) with the specific agenda of solving at-lest 10 of the 20 items listed. We say 10 because we know realistically, it is hard to get stuff done in a white supremacist government style system of capitalism. These individuals will be expected to start figuring out reparations legislation while they are on the job. They must figure out what specific dollar amount and Programs will impact their specific communities. Some communities may do well with casinos, others may do well with construction and manufacturing. This is the early stage of figuring out how and which resources are needed to develop strong economic Black meccas.
Hold each representative accountable for the list of 20 objectives they were brought into the office to resolve or improve. Give annual report cards and share this with the entire community. Host community propaganda events to spread the word on progress or failure of each representative selected. Get the hip-hop community to praise individuals who are effectively tackling the 20 issues of the community. Those not getting the job done must be called out on their shenanigans during these annual meetings and events.
By years 2 and 3, there needs to be a national convention where all these selected leaders from majority Black districts can share what is working for them, and ask others for solutions. This is a time where Blacks across the nation get to find who the best and smartest leaders are, in the country. We get to see the best orators and the best problem solvers. This is how Black communities can decide rather they have an ally that they can send to the federal government to speak on their behalf. There should be a working relationship and a respect for those who are being sent to Congress on behalf of Black communities across the US … Everyone headed to Congress needs to be someone who fully supports reparations. We will need legislation to get passed in Congress and we will need to have as many representatives as possible, who we can assure will create, support and promote a comprehensive reparations package for Black Americans.
In four years, have the most successful individuals run for the presidency of the United States based on that annual report card I talked about. They must examine the list of 20 objectives from each city and select 10 of the major issues concerning Black America. Obviously, reparations are going to be part of that top ten list. As candidates move up to the federal level, they should be grooming someone to take their place on the state and local government levels. This means some of you will need to be politically active and run for office.
Those annual report cards will show who has done the work in helping black people, and who has not. You will need to track your representatives in state, local, as well as in Congress. There must be a meeting on how everyone must be graded … and how the people will be involved in the grading process. Black America should fund these individuals running for the presidency. The black representative running for president will be groomed as a reparations candidate. The objective is to get at least 84 percent voter turnout under the Black agenda vote.
Have the candidates run on a democratic platform to control the narrative specifically for Black America … If the Democrats reject the Black agenda, each representative can always run on an independent platform. Regardless, all the black vote will now go to individuals who have shown they have the best interests for the Black collective. There should always be 10 solid issues on the platform of anyone running for office, specifically addressing the Black collective, as reparations will be one of those 10 objectives.
Black Twitter and the new Black media need to keep everyone updated with up and coming political leaders …. These individuals will get judged by their annual report cards, and have a solid record to track if they decide to run for office on a federal level.
Black codes every community must learn to follow - New Afrika Codes we all can agree with. The New Afrikan Creed is as follows:
1. I believe in the spirituality, humanity, and genius of Black People, and in Our new pursuit of these values.
2. I believe in the family and the community, and in the community as a family, and I will work to make this concept live.
3. I believe in the community as more important than the individual.
4. I believe in the constant struggle for freedom, to end oppression and build a better world. I believe in collective struggle: in fashioning victory in concert with my Brothers and Sisters.
5. I believe that the fundamental reason our oppression continues is that We, as people, lack the power to control our lives.
6. I believe that the fundamental way to gain that power, and end oppression, is to build a sovereign Black nation.
7. I believe that all the land in America, upon which We have lived for a long time, which We have worked and build upon, and which We have fought to stay on, is land that belongs to us as a people.
8. I believe in the Malcolm X Doctrine: that We must organize upon this land, and hold a plebiscite, to tell the world by a vote that We are free and Our land independent, and that, after the vote, We must stand ready to defend ourselves, establishing the nation beyond contradiction.
9. Therefore, I pledge to struggle without ceasing, until We have won sovereignty. I pledge to struggle without fail until We have built a better condition than man has yet known.
10. I will give my life if that is necessary. I will give my time, my mind, my strength and my wealth because this IS necessary.
11. I will follow my chosen leaders and help them.
12. I will love my Brothers and Sisters as myself.
13. I will steal nothing from a Brother or Sister, cheat no Brother or Sister, misuse no Brother or Sister, inform on no Brother or Sister and spread no gossip.
14. I will keep myself clean in body, dress, and speech, knowing that I am a light set on a hill, a true representative of what We are building.
15. I will be patient and uplifting with the deaf, dumb and blind, and I will seek by word and deed to heal the Black family, to bring into the Movement and into the Community mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters left by the wayside. Now, freely and of my own will, I pledge this creed, for the sake of freedom for my people and a better world, on pain of disgrace and banishment if I prove false. For, I am no longer deaf, dumb or blind. I am – by the grace of Malcolm – a New Afrikan.