Black People Politics : Why we don't have power

[Perfection]

You'd rather read a book? Why?

I rest my case.

 

[IPXninja]

I went back and read the OP.

I find it amusing and curious that you started off with Sexual Power Games.

I decided that history was a record of SPERM Wars years ago. Various power games.

Sexual Power Games
Political Power Games
Economic Power Games
Religious Power Games &
Military Power Games

These power games can operate at different scales and interact in different ways. Cleopatra with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony is probably the most famous bringing sex into the mix.

Ultimately economics cannot be separated from politics because ownership of land brings in deeds and titles and liens and lawyers and banks.

Of course evictions and foreclosures can involve the police so the military power game can come in to the mess.

I consider the Economic Power Game to be the most immediate. When have the Democrats or the Republicans advocated mandatory accounting in the schools?

Bro this is why I tell you I'm WITH YOU. Because Economics is the biggest thing for me too.

However... I also have to be real with myself just as told you before that you have to be consider how other people will naturally approach the issue of planned obsolescence. It doesn't mean you're wrong but what it means that we have to plan around the natural flow of society. If either of our plans/solutions require society to either contradict itself or go in a whole new/different direction then the problem isn't them, it's us.

So even though for me... Economics are literally the reason behind ALL of our issues (even single-parent homes and other social issues) more black people participate in politics than black economics. Am I wrong? We have tons of black people who never look to see if there is a black owned business who can help them. And so, of all the good ideas and solutions, we have to adjust according to where our people are at, not where WE are at. And I know you understand this.

Now... this doesn't mean we shouldn't talking about economics and why economics should be #1. But where are people's heads at right now?

Politics.

So we have to use that to try and reach them. If we can get on the same page with politics then we can expand from that page. But we have to establish a common point to build from. I've tried in the economic arena and the problem is that black people do not trust other black people with their money. Sad but true. White people do not do any more to prove themselves trustworthy. But we'll slit our own writs, trusting white folk more than we trust other black folk when it comes to our money or major work that we need done. And now, increasingly, we're also hiring Mexicans.

So how do we get from the areas of participation where we're at NOW.... to the areas of participation we need to be? Because that's why we don't have power.

 

[IPXninja]

I rest my case.

LOL. Now you're pretending to have a case? Nice.

 

[jamesfrmphilly]

Because Economics is the biggest thing

no, self defense is the biggest thing.

we have succeed at economics many times only to have the white man come in and burn it all down.

until we have a black force that will take out the white man when he comes the rest is moot.

until it is clear to the white police that when they kill a black person prison will not be a safe heaven for them.

we have so many "gangsters" what never ruffled one hair on a white racists head.

until white people realize that it is no longer open season on black people all the talk is moot.

 

[jamesfrmphilly]

repeat : we DO HAVE POWER, we just don't know it.....