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Some Influential Black Social Media Thought Leaders Are Espousing Voting Apathy Because Reparations Isn't Taken Seriously By Either Party.
However Is This A Good Strategy?
By Kamau Austin, Publisher Southeast Queens Scoop & Scoop Publications
There has always been demoralized and apathetic black people who have felt voting, especially within the US 2-party system -- doesn't matter. However, in the past these tended to be people who are economically and socially marginalized.
However more recently we have seen social media thought leaders, usually in a higher income and asset bracket - state this as well. They have advocated for reparations as the litmus test of whether Blacks should vote in the US. However it is becoming pretty apparent that both major parties are sidelining the reparations issue.
Did you notice the reparations question posed to former Vice President Joe Biden, in the last Democratic Presidential debate of 12/20/2019 - lasted like 5 seconds? Wow Biden redirected that question fast!
That's possibly the fastest redirect in US debate history? LOL! But Seriously, a Facebook Friend asked me "What does that tell you?" Hhhhhm good question. It tells me...
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...It tells me Blacks need to pool our resources and build more economic clout in the US and Africa. We should use our government to get more government contracts and build viable business.
We should also work to stop global warming and get more jobs with a green new deal, cover as many Blacks as possible with health care, and get free college to prepare us for the high tech economic revolution Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang alludes to in these debates.
The reason I think we should take this approach, rather than the not voting responsive strategy, is because in the US the Black community is a 1.3 trillion dollar revenue engine. At 1.3 Trillion dollars we must be taxed at about at least $200 to $300 Billion a year. So...
I pay taxes and also have a daughter on the autism spectrum so I believe I should participate in the political process. I don't know if we ever get reparations. However, I think we should use the political process that our taxes helps pay for and get more government contracts to build stronger businesses and look to invest in economic development in our communities and Africa.
If we're paying and estimated $200 to $300 billion a year in taxes we should try to recycle as much of that money back into our communities from government spending. The best way I've seen to recycle our tax dollars back into our communities is to vote in politicians who will insure that we get our share of government contracts, grants, and programs to help our community.
I think NYC is a good example. We've voted in a lot of Afrikan centered and progressive Blacks into political office like Charles Barron, James Sanders jr, Tish James, Eric Adams and have been able to get large government contracts for Black firms in multibillion dollar airport redevelopments.
We've been able to get contracts (30%) slotted for minorities (the term needed to avoid it being ruled unconstitutional) and a lot of the jobs renovating the airports. These airport upgrades in NYC will be about 30 billion dollars. Black firms are already getting major contracts. This is a strategy employed by Maynard Jackson in ATL to build Black firms.
Again other than that I think we have to pool our resources and build more economic clout in the US and Africa. We should use our government to get more government contracts and build viable business. We should also work to stop global warming and get more jobs with a green new deal, cover as many Blacks as possible with quality health care, and get free college to prepare us for the high tech economic upswing.
I think we have to build Black businesses here and then invest in Afrika.
We also should endeavor to invest and build Black businesses in the US as consumers over the internet and investors with crowd equity funding. Some Blacks have done this already with things like Buy The Block and the Tulsa Real Estate Fund raising millions of dollars with Black investors to collectively buy real estate. We need more funds like these. We should also invest in African countries looking for Black American investment, offer us dual citizenship, and want us to return like Ghana did in the 400 Year Of Return Celebration.
With only 7% of Black support Black businesses employ about 1 million Black people. It is one of our largest sources of Black jobs.
What if we could increase our support for our businesses from like 7% to more like 25%? We theoretically could have enough economic clout to hire every Black person currently unemployed.
I feel investing and supporting Black businesses in the US and Africa rather than mainstream corporate monopoly capitalist businesses is much more in our vested interest and makes economic sense. Why should we continue to support companies that don't have our best interests at heart and don't support reparations? Share your thoughts and comments below at the end of the page.
Writer's Bio: Writer Kamau Austin, is the award winning Publisher of the Black News Scoop and Scoop Publications, a division of AMS Digital Media. He is a long time activist, entrepreneur, and author. Austin has been featured in Black Enterprise, Fortune Magazine Small Business, CNN, radio, cable, and countless newspapers and blog sites.
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