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.
Not what was done to us, but what we intend to build — the party's long view for Black America.
As a community, we as Black Americans tend to invoke our common struggles, both present and historic, for a sense of cohesion and political solidarity. But for now, I would like to ask you to look into the future. Imagine America in 10 years, in 20 or 50 or even 100 years. Would you like the future of Black America to look like it does today? Would you like it to look like our past? Do you want the black family to continue to suffer as it does today? Would you like for over 70% of our children to grow up in homes with a single mother, who has to work long hours? Twenty years from now, would you like to see our neighborhoods continue to suffer from crime, blight, chemical addiction, violence, and parasitic predatory businesses? If our kids were still bobbing their heads to the rhythm of music that encouraged them to follow a life of crime, drugs, incarceration, and ignorance 10 years from now, would you still think this phenomenon was still “market driven”?
I believe it is time for us to start thinking about what kind of future we want to see for our children. We are citizens of the greatest country in the world. With all of her problems, America is still the land of opportunity. This is the land that offers the greatest opportunity for social and economic mobility. Although Black Americans are over represented in the military, and many of us use our military experience to travel and experience the world, most of us still pass our entire lives without ever obtaining a passport. It is this ignorance of the significance of America on the world stage that makes the Black American community easily manipulated on domestic issues. An unfortunate truth is that most Black Americans live within a paradigm that was created by the mainstream media, film, and television.
America is at once a multicultural and ethnocentric society. Most Americans still feel a profound sense of American exceptionalism. Even (especially) those who complain about life in America the most. Compared to most citizens of the world, most Americans are ignorant about anything that goes on outside of the United States, and they don’t care. I must admit that, if you follow television shows, keep up with sports, social media, and go to the movies, your attention span will be fully consumed, and you will have what you think is a complete life, without realizing all of the real world that you are ignorant about. Combine this with socializing with other ignorant, ethnocentric sheeple, and you have the perfect environment for political manipulation.
America is at once a multicultural and ethnocentric society.
Because of a failure to travel internationally, many Black Americans only see themselves from within the lens of how they perceive they are viewed by American society at large. This information is fed to them through the tropes of mainstream media. The most toxic and destructive for Black Americans of late has been rap music, hip-hop, and gangsta rap culture. The phenomenon of gangsta rap or thug culture is an extension of the minstrel show, which was the premiere form of entertainment in America since reconstruction. All forms of American mainstream media promote a general social paradigm that is unflattering to black Americans, and unconducive to our survival as Americans, and as human beings. I believe the question we must now answer for ourselves that of to be or not to be. Do we want to live? Do we want to survive? Not only survive, but do we want to thrive? Do we want to be happy, and successful people? Do we want to build, and establish legacy? Or have the social pressures placed upon us by being hated by white Americans finally convinced us to hate ourselves? Do we also want “Us” to disappear, just as others do? By our behavior, it would appear so.
International travel is a great mind-opener for most Black Americans. It is only from outside of the bubble of the American zeitgeist that Americans discover the way the rest of the world really lives. One needs to travel internationally to understand the uniqueness of America, and America’s place in the world. Black Americans share with all Americans this exalted position as the human beings with the most control over their social status in the world. Especially when the United States is using solid currency. It is usually during international travel that a Black American man discovers, outside of the American zeitgeist, that he is a man. That he will be both respected, and judged, on the same basis of being a man. That his race does not make it appropriate to wear Jordan’s and a snap-back cap turned backward in a professional setting. In a foreign environment a Black American man learns to hate the celebration of ignorance that is being shoved down our children’s throats as “entertainment”.
As we travel, and our world expands, we overcome the ignorance and prejudices of our youth. We celebrate the subtle differences between our cultures, because human beings are actually more alike than we are different. It is when we discover the commonalities between ourselves and the other peoples of the world, that we begin to see ourselves outside of the parameters projected to us, through the American media machine, and the American societal zeitgeist. We also learn to discover the peculiarities of the Black American hive mentality, and how it causes many of us to voluntarily participate in this dehumanizing charade. I’m not talking about taking short trips for vacation, although I also recommend taking those. A good few years abroad does wonders for expanding the mindset of any Black American, in my humble opinion.
Part of what is shed in the international experience is the belief in one’s self as a Black American as being a product, or property, of America. Part of the paradigm that is shed is the belief that our history as black Americans began with slavery. One learns that being Black does not relegate you to an underclass, nor does it give you carte blanche to behave irresponsibly. Soon one comes to the realization that if we share the same moral responsibilities as the rest of humanity, we also deserve every bit of a share in its highest aspirations. This includes material aspirations. This usually provokes a great paradigm shift. That of discovering that the so-called “good white folks” that celebrated your indulgence in a lower moral standard with you are actually not your friends.
This paradigm shift usually helps the black American to put the whole media co-opting of black culture into perspective, as more than just a commercially-motivated celebration of booty shaking. Eventually one comes to the realization that consumption of the images portrayed to Black America about Black America has to have long term detrimental effects on the spirit. At best you will own a privilege of perpetual boyhood, with the luxury of laxed moral standards. With that privilege comes a glass ceiling, through which you can never aspire to full manhood in America.
Millions of dollars are pumped into constructing a media universe that puppets the societal norms and mores of every culture in America. Media, like all art forms, both imitates and dictates culture. Look at what the co-opting of our music and popular culture from outside of our society has done to us. We are the only society that permits others to produce media imagery that pumps the cultural and societal ills that plague our community into the ears of our own children, so that these ills are recycled into future generations. We are the only people that it is OK to do this to!
The pressure that this seamless media onslaught produces takes its toll on the Black mind that has never existed outside of America’s media matrix. This, combined with the societal pressure of direct, in-person racial indifference, and the nihilism that is all-too pervasive in our culture, have been contributing factors to the black on black crime, violence, and self-genocide from which our community suffers today.
As we each develop a sense of logos, an innate acceptance of the responsibility to create God’s paradise on Earth, we understand the unique advantages we are blessed with as American citizens. We have the greatest ability to individually change our financial status during the course of our lifetimes than any other people on Earth. It is unjust that there are rich and poor, but the poor will always be among us. What is truly unfair is that most of the world is stuck in poverty, with no means of self-elevation. More unjust than the inequality between the social classes is the inability for an individual to transcend social classes during the course of his or her lifetime. As American citizens, we are not so unfortunate as most of the rest of the world, in this regard. This is why there are always so many people willing to risk life and limb to enter the United States.
As we consider how we each want to evolve personally, in our financial, professional, and family development, we also consider how we would like to see Black society evolve in the United States. Although I deliberately decided not to use a personal tone with this book, I feel I must interject my future best-world scenario vision for Black America. I see an America where Black Americans are participating fully in the material benefits of America. With full economic inclusion in every level of national and international commerce. Black Americans have re-established a Black American stock exchange, and strong international trade relationships. With a return to solid currency around the world, relations between the United States and mineral-rich Africa will be more important than ever. This will elevate the relationship between the United States and Black Americans like it never has before. But I am getting a little ahead of myself. Suffice it to say that I envision a future where the majority of Black children are growing up in a two-parent (a biologically female mother and a biologically male father) home, in a safe neighborhood, and educated in a world-class education to the highest degree they desire. I see a world where black music is our own again, and we are celebrating peace, love, and soul. Where we have a thriving Black middle class, as well as all upper classes, and a secure ladder with which to climb them.
The opening address of the party's founding text — who it is written for, and the terms on which it asks to be read.
Two centuries of being an easily manipulated voting bloc — and the case for ending that arrangement.
The commonly held assumptions that shape American life — and the specific ones the party names as false.
What is strongest in Black American culture, and what is holding it back — named honestly, from the inside.
Anti-war and pro-strong-military — and why passports change politics.
School choice on one standard, abacus mind math, coding from grammar school, and entrepreneurship as a core subject.
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