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 pattern as entertainment, with shorter careers and worse advice.
Athletics is one of the few paths to wealth that Black American children are actively encouraged toward, and the encouragement is wildly out of proportion to the odds. The number who will earn a living from sport is vanishingly small; the number who organise their adolescence around the attempt is enormous.
That imbalance is not the children's error. It is what happens when a community is shown one door repeatedly and the others rarely.
Black Americans dominate the playing rosters of the most valuable American sports leagues and hold almost none of the franchises, the agencies, the media rights or the sponsorship businesses. The athlete's career lasts a few years. The franchise appreciates forever.
Article X's argument about access to capital is nowhere clearer. The gap between being the product and owning the product is the whole gap.
The restoration of government-sponsored sport alongside STEM and arts programmes, as Article VII states - because a broad athletic culture produces health, discipline and community, which are worth having whether or not anyone turns professional.
Financial education for young athletes, delivered before the first contract rather than after the bankruptcy. And Black American ownership in the businesses around sport: agencies, training, media, sponsorship, facilities.
That athletic excellence has produced almost no Black American ownership of franchises, agencies or media rights, and that the community over-directs its children toward a very narrow path while under-directing them toward others.
Yes. Article VII calls for the restoration of government-sponsored sports, STEM and arts programmes.
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.
A community that treats intelligence as suspect has agreed to lose.
The information a community receives determines the politics it produces.
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