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Report Shows "The State of Black America" Hasn't Progressed Since 1965. But Urban League Urges Powerless Blacks to Keep Voting for Better [Masters] Dems to Solve Disparities Caused by White Supremacy

POWERLESS CLASS. Voting heavily for Black and friendly White politicians has not helped Black people solve their problem of neutralizing white supremacy and the system of authority.

Amos Wilson states, ‘The VESTED INTERESTS ARE ever quick to remind the Black electorate of the historical struggles necessary to achieve their right to vote. It indicts the community for its electoral apathy and seeks to evoke guilt feelings in those who do not participate in the electoral process — making such ritualistic participation emblematic of democracy and first-class citizenship. This is of special interest when it is realized that very few, if any, of the major political, economic and social goals achieved by Black America, including the Voting Rights Act, were accomplished through Black voting prowess. The ballot box has been a relatively impotent weapon in the achievement of major victories by the Black community. Suddenly vigorous protest and direct-action legal suits and extralegal processes such as boycotts, sit-ins, and the like, which were used so effectively by the community to achieve its sociopolitical ends and to fight injustice and oppression, have fallen far behind the election of Black politicians to achieve the same ends. [MORE]

From [FINAL CALL] The National Urban League’s recent finding that the current State of Black America is grim is unsurprising.

And in 2022, since ratification of America’s Constitution in 1788, the League’s Equality Index finds that Blacks are about three-fifths along the way to experiencing equal status with White Americans.

The Black-White disparity persists across virtually every line or indicator of life and quality of life in the United States. Beyond the statistical gaps and lack of opportunity, a 2022 State of Black America opinion poll revealed the constant mental anguish and insecurity Blacks endure. Blacks were far more likely than Whites to worry “about being paid less, passed over, having to work harder for the same amount, and even being discriminated against,” the poll found.

Blacks were more worried about basic survival, putting food on the table, getting enough working hours, losing a job, being unable to pay the mortgage, and spending savings to make ends meet.

When it comes to the numbers, the median Black household income was $43,862 versus $63,823 for Whites. Blacks still trail Whites in homeownership, the traditional path to wealth building in the country, and their homes were valued less than Whites.

Urban League president Marc Morial noted that there has been almost zero change in Black wealth since the heyday of civil rights. Black-White wealth disparity has increased, he admitted.

unquestioned beliefs own black PEOPLE. Many sheEple belive they live in a democracy and that a democracy is a good thing b/c that’s what they are programmed to believe.

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY

democracy - a commercial form of "government" (exploitation and theft via force, deception and involuntary participation) of the mob, by the mob, and/or the mob, i.e., Mob-Rule. 2) a guise rubber stamping of an alternative royalty into overruling power. 3) the worst possible form of government because the majority rules whether they be good, evil, or misled by a minority. 4) slavery of the people, by the people, for the people. 5) equality achieved through force. 6) a system where only the majority need to befooled. 7) advertised equality. 8) a parody of a free society that only ethical anarchism or voluntaryism can usher into existence. "Democracy has always been seen (and is still seen today) as equality of rights (granted privileges), not conditions. To the hypothetical equality of rights there has always corresponded a substantial inequality of conditions. And instead of being related to the nature of their individuality, differences between people have always been those marked by the different basic conditions they live in as they struggle against the suffocating artificial divisions imposed on them by power." —Alfred M. Bonanno. Democracy is a euphonious term created mainly to serve as sheepskin for Leviathan, Doggy and the Crimethlnc. All-Stars. 9) Dictatorship camouflaged as freedom 10) a whitewashed plutocracy with a pastel eggshell finish. Democracy, next to "monetized debt," and direct taxation (on labor) is the biggest con-game perpetrated on a population. Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain and sustain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that lie, they make wonderfully submissive and self-maintained slaves.[MORE]

The death rate of Black men from prostate cancer has nearly tripled, according to the report. Black women were nearly 60 percent more likely to die in childbirth and 31 percent more likely to die from breast cancer. On average Blacks could expect to live four years less than Whites, added the report, which was released April 12.

According to federal statistics, in police interactions Blacks were more likely to suffer use of force and threats than Whites and, if arrested, Blacks were three times more likely to go to jail.

That’s not all: While in 2020 Black voters were praised for stopping the “assault on democracy” by defeating the reelection bid of Donald Trump, there has been an all-out assault on Black voting rights. Trumpsters and Trump-lite political leaders and activists are working at the local and state level to curb voting rights: Some propose private police forces to investigate voting in urban areas. Others want to erect more barriers to voting. And in states like Florida, congressional districts are being redrawn to eliminate, limit or dilute Black voting areas.

Mr. Morial described the effort as political operatives, state and federal lawmakers and even violent extremists working to “dismantle” American democracy. He called for a “national mobilization to protect and defend our most sacred constitutional right.” “The anti-democracy wave that began to rise after record-high Black voting rates in 2008 and crested with the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder to gut the Voting Rights Act has now broken against ‘The Big Lie,’ the relentless campaign to invalidate the 2020 election,” Mr. Morial noted in an essay, “Under Siege: The Plot to Destroy Democracy.”

Gerrymandering, voter suppression, misinformation, and intimidation are the tools being used to exclude Black voters and mainly benefit the Republican Party. “Politicians have used these tactics for generations, to exclude voters of color and to give their parties an edge,” Mr. Morial said. “But never before has the nation seen such an insidious and coordinated campaign to obliterate the very principle of ‘one person, one vote’ from the political process.”

These harrowing statistics, the anxiety and woe should lead us to decide to act differently than we have been acting. Despite warnings from the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan against a blind faith in this world’s politics, the benevolence of White people, or moral appeals to White conscience, we have somehow believed that American society can change and fully embrace and include millions of the descendants of her once slaves.

She cannot.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad warned us that America could not provide jobs for the millions of her own unemployed let alone provide good jobs for a people she despises and hates. He warned against believing in the false promises of an age-old enemy and believing in a fairy tale like transformation of an evil doer into an angel. His warnings have been true, and the country continues to go backward in race relations while a seething cauldron of race hatred against Black children, women and men erupts daily.

White people fear for their future and are fed up with acting in ways that show respect for Black and non-White people. They have simply had enough, which accounts for their love of past president Trump and those of his ilk. Anti-Blackness is only going to increase as will race-based clashes, humiliation, disrespect and murder. Wishing for better times and appealing to the moral conscience of an immoral nation is a foolish thing.

Our salvation lies in harnessing our economic, cultural, political and spiritual unity to the plow of self-determination, self-independence and self-sacrifice. With a spending power of trillions of dollars, brilliant Black men and women across every discipline and much of the world seeking alternatives to U.S. domination, our internal unity and external relations can yield great progress. 

And with that progress can come the proper harnessing of politics, economics and an independent vision that can improve our condition. This is the day of America’s downfall, and every indicator is bearing witness to the time. The time demands that we abandon all hope in the children of our former slavemasters and strike out on our own. We have nothing to lose but our chains and God Himself is with us.