Black American Party
The Black American Party Platform
The writing behind the Twelve Articles — 82 chapters, in the party founder’s own words.
The Black American Party advances the producer class of the Black American community — through ownership, enterprise, constitutional principle, and economic solidarity. What is good for Black Americans is good for all Americans.
The writing behind the Twelve Articles — 82 chapters, in the party founder’s own words.
The Twelve Articles on the front page are the Black American Party’s platform in its shortest form. The chapters below are the argument underneath them — the reasoning, the evidence and the plain speech that produced each position.
They are published as written, because a party that will not show its reasoning is asking to be taken on faith. Read them in any order; each stands on its own.
The founding address: who it speaks for, and on what terms.
Two centuries as a voting bloc that could be assumed and ignored.
School choice on one standard, abacus math, coding and STEM.
A party whose first priority is the producer class has to be able to say what it will actually do for the people who own the businesses.
Not a transfer. A functioning position in the economy that already exists.
Full participation means the boardroom and the supply chain, not only the workforce.
Income is what you earn. Wealth is what is still there when you are not.
A gap this size does not close by accident, and it does not close by complaint either.
Greenwood is cited constantly and studied rarely. Both halves of the lesson matter.
Property is the foundation of generational wealth, and Black American families have been losing it for a century.
Inflation is a tax on the producer and a thief of savings, and it falls hardest on the people with the least cushion.
Some businesses locate in our communities precisely because the alternatives are thin.
Every road, bridge and broadband build is a procurement decision before it is a construction project.
The party supports the creation of a Black American cryptocurrency - to establish wealth, and to keep the dollar circulating inside our own economy.
Every technological wave so far has been something done to this community. The next one does not have to be.
Our children are not less capable. The infrastructure and the curriculum are less present.
Black American culture is the most influential cultural force America has produced, and we capture almost none of its value.
Every community teaches through its symbols. Ours are largely being chosen for us.
There is a difference between art that depicts a community's problems and an industry that manufactures them for sale.
We are the most valuable talent pool in global entertainment and among the least represented in its ownership.
The most commercially successful degrading portrayal of Black Americans in history is one we perform ourselves.
The same pattern as entertainment, with shorter careers and worse advice.
A community that treats intelligence as suspect has agreed to lose.
Every other institution this platform proposes is downstream of this one.
One cultural practice we defend with humour is measurably harming the next generation.
A community serious about its children cannot leave them in other people's systems.
The information a community receives determines the politics it produces.
A party that cannot say precisely who it represents will end up representing whoever funds it.
A vote that is guaranteed is a vote that is worthless.
The mechanics are public, unglamorous and entirely achievable. Most people have simply never been told them.
A PAC is how a constituency speaks in the language the political system actually listens to.
We keep producing extraordinary leaders and no machinery. Then we lose the leader and start over.
The two-axis map of American politics was not drawn with Black American interests in mind.
Black American political attention is confined to a narrow band of subjects, and the confinement is not accidental.
Not conservative. Not progressive. American - and specific about what that means.
Conserving Black America is not the same as joining the conservative movement.
Progress has to be measured in assets, not in acknowledgement.
Both parties tell a version of this history that flatters them. Neither version is a reason to hand over your vote.
The change this platform proposes does not require a march. It requires several million people doing ordinary things differently.
The critique is of a political arrangement, not of anyone's sincerity.
An independent party has to be able to cooperate without being absorbed.
Three different things get called betrayal, and confusing them wrecks movements.
Every people that intends to lead maintains institutions that produce leaders.
Societies are steered deliberately. The only question is by whom and toward what.
Survival was the achievement of every previous generation. It cannot be the ambition of this one.
Analogies to other groups' experiences break down, and the breakage matters politically.
Emotional intensity is a strength in culture and a liability in politics.
Every people needs a protective class. Ours exists and is largely pointed away from us.
Respect and solidarity across the diaspora - and clear eyes about where Black American power is actually exercised.
Every country runs on a set of unexamined assumptions. Seeing several breaks the spell of your own.
The Black American Party is anti-abortion. No population has suffered more disproportionately from this Maafa than ours.
Material and institutional reparations for the descendants of American slavery, secured by Constitutional amendment rather than by a bill.
The party supports an immediate suspension of all immigration, the return of those here without status, and a protected border.
Police work should be done by officers held to a far higher standard of education in human psychology and sociology.
Crime is a major issue in our community. The party attacks it at its source - economics, family, child rearing, education, and a system built to rehabilitate.
The party's stated interest is a system weighted toward rehabilitation rather than punishment - because almost everyone it takes eventually comes home.
Across communities, Americans agree the justice system needs serious reform. The party fights the wholesale prosecution of Black American youth.
As constitutionalists, the party supports the Second Amendment and urges Black Americans toward firearm education, licensing and safety.
The reputation is undeserved and the record says so. The party supports a safety net for all Americans against hunger and homelessness.
We have served in every American war. The party honors the armed services, rejects foreign command over them, and demands better for veterans.
Neglected by our community for too long, though we are called to fight disproportionately. The party supports military action in defense of American borders.
The party supports a living minimum wage for all laborers - and treats it as a floor beneath the ownership agenda, not a substitute for it.
Communism steals the means of production. The Black American Party supports capitalism - and intends for Black Americans to own capital.
Socialism steals the products of production. The party supports capitalism, and distinguishes a safety net from an economic program.
The party supports the free practice of religion for all Americans, and recognizes what the Black church built while the state was not protecting us.
The party supports the legal and ethical practice of plural marriage for consenting adults who choose such an arrangement.
The party supports strong, traditional, nuclear families - and treats the household as the first institution everything else is built on.
The party supports legislation mandating DNA paternity testing at every birth, before any father is named on a birth certificate.
There is a deliberate campaign to divide the sexes. The party rejects it, and states what it asks of Black American men.
The same campaign, the other half. What this party asks of Black American women, stated with the same directness and no more.
The party is committed to addressing the specific needs of Black American men on a focused basis rather than inside a general agenda.
The party is committed to addressing the specific needs of Black American women on a focused basis rather than inside a general agenda.
The statement is a fact. The organization has political and financial interests disconnected from the political interests of Black Americans.
The party is committed to combating racism in all its forms, wherever it is found - and to the specific remedies rather than the general condemnation.
The deliberate defamation of Black American culture and character by legacy media since minstrelsy is a social crisis, not a grievance.
The party seeks hate crime legislation covering those who produce and disseminate destructive stereotypes of Black Americans and our culture.
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