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.
Full participation means the boardroom and the supply chain, not only the workforce.
Black Americans have never been excluded from the American economy as workers. We built substantial parts of it under conditions no one chose. The exclusion has always been from the levels where decisions are made and wealth is retained: ownership, capital allocation, supply chains, boards, and the professions that advise all three.
So a diversity figure counted at the entry level is not a measure of inclusion. It is a measure of hiring. The two are often confused, usually by people who benefit from the confusion.
Every large firm buys billions in goods and services from other firms. That procurement spending is many times larger than any corporate giving programme, and unlike giving, it is recurring, contractual and unsentimental. A Black American firm on a supplier list has revenue. A Black American firm mentioned in a diversity report has a mention.
The party's position is that supplier diversity is the highest-leverage form of economic inclusion available, and the least discussed - because it is the one that actually transfers money.
Inclusion does not stop at the border. The information age lets a firm in Atlanta sell to a customer in Accra or Sao Paulo without a distributor's permission. Black American producers should be participating in international trade directly, and building commercial relationships across the diaspora as trade, not as sentiment.
That is a different proposition from the political Pan-Africanism this platform is careful about. Trade compounds. Solidarity statements do not.
Full participation at every level of commerce - ownership, capital, supply chains and boards - not employment figures at the entry level.
Corporate procurement spending dwarfs corporate giving, and it is recurring and contractual. A supplier contract is revenue; a diversity report mention is not.
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.
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