- Aug 21, 2012
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At the front end, may I qualify my comments. When I speak of American blacks, I speak more so of those who, degreed or not, actually think they know politics. And a key identifier of these are those who speak as if the American political system works for black people as it does for non-black people.
One of the saddest sights to see besides how black people treat our women, is how many of us, as a collective, continue to have faith in a political system which has rules embedded in it ensuring misery, pain and suffering for those who are melanated.
Black people talking about which candidate is better for black people? Sickening.
Throwing out names of presidential candidates as if these candidates are serious about bettering the conditions of black people when all of the evidence--including history and their own daily realities--clearly demonstrates otherwise.
It's like when the presidential election emerges, we all of a sudden forget about our daily realities. Like our black male jobless rates in 2016 are far worse than the collective during the Great Depression of 1929. That jobless rate didn't just start during the presidential race.
None of your candidates fixed this before they were running.
Or, what about our Queens being murdered in these racist holdover cells? They telling you and me these women with great futures decided to end their lives in the custody of racists? How does that even make sense?
Which of your candidates were talking about fixing this before the presidential race?
And yet, every four years--without fail--since you and me and our ancestors have been chained here, you know deep in your heart ain't nothing changed for us.
You frontin...you scared to admit the reality: we are {still} slaves, frightened slaves at that, who pretends as if our vote counts for our liberation.
You don't know what politics is.
One of the saddest sights to see besides how black people treat our women, is how many of us, as a collective, continue to have faith in a political system which has rules embedded in it ensuring misery, pain and suffering for those who are melanated.
Black people talking about which candidate is better for black people? Sickening.
Throwing out names of presidential candidates as if these candidates are serious about bettering the conditions of black people when all of the evidence--including history and their own daily realities--clearly demonstrates otherwise.
It's like when the presidential election emerges, we all of a sudden forget about our daily realities. Like our black male jobless rates in 2016 are far worse than the collective during the Great Depression of 1929. That jobless rate didn't just start during the presidential race.
None of your candidates fixed this before they were running.
Or, what about our Queens being murdered in these racist holdover cells? They telling you and me these women with great futures decided to end their lives in the custody of racists? How does that even make sense?
Which of your candidates were talking about fixing this before the presidential race?
And yet, every four years--without fail--since you and me and our ancestors have been chained here, you know deep in your heart ain't nothing changed for us.
You frontin...you scared to admit the reality: we are {still} slaves, frightened slaves at that, who pretends as if our vote counts for our liberation.
You don't know what politics is.