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.
Our children are not less capable. The infrastructure and the curriculum are less present.
The digital divide is often discussed as though Black American children were less able to absorb technology. That version is false and should be rejected without apology. Make anything genuinely popular among Black American youth and the competition for excellence in it becomes extreme. Capability was never the constraint.
The real divide is access and instruction: broadband that reaches the house, a device that is not shared between four siblings, and a school that teaches building rather than only browsing.
Almost every Black American child has a supercomputer in their pocket and almost none has been taught to make anything with it. The device is configured for consumption and monetised accordingly. That is the divide that matters now - not who has a screen, but who can write for one.
A phone is a distribution channel for someone else's product until the moment its owner learns to build. Then it is a workshop.
Broadband build-out is a construction contract, and Black American firms should be winning it. Laying the fibre our children will learn on is both a service to the community and a business - the two are not in tension, and this platform is generally suspicious of arguments that they are.
It rejects the version that implies Black American children are less capable, and accepts the real one: unequal access to broadband, devices and instruction in building rather than only consuming.
Coding taught as a core subject, broadband reaching the home, and Black American firms winning the broadband construction contracts.
Analogies to other groups' experiences break down, and the breakage matters politically.
The hardest chapter to write, and the one most needed.
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.
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