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 same campaign, the other half. What this party asks of Black American women, stated with the same directness and no more.
There is a deliberate campaign in play to divide the sexes, and the Black American Party opposes the destructive influence of feminism and gender confusion. The party holds that Black American women and Black American men are allies whose interests are the same interest.
This chapter states what is asked of Black American women. It is written to the same standard as its companion: direct, specific, and containing nothing this party would not say to a woman's face in her own house.
Black American women have carried more of this community than any group in it. They kept households together through every mechanism described in the family chapters, went to work when there was no work for the men, buried sons, raised grandchildren, ran the churches, staffed the movement, and produced the highest college enrollment figures in the community while doing it.
Any chapter with the word accountability in its title that does not begin with that record is not being honest, and would not deserve to be read by the people it is addressed to.
Choose well, and hold the standard early. This platform argues that fatherhood is the highest-leverage variable in a Black American child's life. That leverage is exercised at the beginning - in who a woman builds with - far more than it can ever be exercised afterward through the courts.
Let a good man lead something. A great many Black American women learned early that relying on anyone was dangerous, and learned it for reasons that were real. But a household in which no one is ever permitted to carry anything cannot become a partnership, and a man who is never trusted with responsibility does not develop it.
Guard how our men are spoken of. In front of the children most of all. A boy who hears every day what men are will become that, and a girl who hears it will look for it. This is asked of both sexes in this platform and it is not a lighter obligation on either.
Own, do not only earn. Black American women hold the community's educational advantage and a large share of its professional income, and the platform's central distinction applies here in full: income is what you earn, wealth is what remains. Equity, property, a business, a will.
The party's objection is not to a woman's ambition, education, earnings, leadership or independence. This platform requires all of it and would collapse without it.
The objection is to a framework that identifies the Black American woman's principal adversary as the Black American man. That framework was not built for her and it does not describe her situation. Her interests and his are held by the same household, in the same neighborhood, subject to the same policy - and a movement that persuades one half of a community that the other half is the obstacle has disarmed both.
An accountability chapter that only makes demands is a lecture. So this party states what it owes: men who show up, a wage that means she is not carrying a household alone, maternal health care that stops killing Black women at rates this country should be ashamed of, childcare she can afford, protection from violence taken seriously by police and courts, and a community that says out loud what she has done for it.
We are asking Black American women to build with us. That is a proposal, and a proposal has terms on both sides.
To hold the standard early in who they build with, to let a good man carry responsibility, to guard how Black men are spoken of in front of children, and to own rather than only earn.
Not to women's ambition, education, earnings or leadership, which this platform requires. The objection is to a framework identifying the Black American man as her principal adversary.
Yes, explicitly and first. The chapter opens with the record - households held together, work taken up when there was none for the men, churches run, grandchildren raised, and the community's highest college enrollment.
Men who show up, a wage that means she is not carrying a household alone, maternal health care, affordable childcare, violence taken seriously, and public acknowledgment of what she has done.
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.
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.
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