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.
Every country runs on a set of unexamined assumptions. Seeing several breaks the spell of your own.
The American Zeitgeist is a set of commonly held beliefs, slogans and assumptions that define American ethnocentricity. It is not unique in having one - every country has its own, shaped by whoever holds influence there, and each feels to its inhabitants like simple reality rather than a construction.
That is the useful discovery of travel: not that other places are better, but that their assumptions are equally invisible to the people holding them, and equally arbitrary.
A person inside one zeitgeist cannot easily see it. A person who has lived inside several can see the seams in all of them, including their own - which is why this platform keeps returning to international experience as a political education rather than a leisure activity.
It is also why the American Zeitgeist's specific claims about Black Americans become so obviously constructed once you have watched a different society construct different claims about different people.
There is a live effort to stretch a shared set of assumptions across all countries at once, promoted through the same small number of channels everywhere. Whatever one thinks of any particular claim, a world with one zeitgeist has no vantage point left - no outside from which to notice that the assumptions are assumptions.
For a people who need to see clearly in order to organise, that loss of vantage is a serious matter. Independent judgement is a political asset and it is getting scarcer.
The observation that every country runs on its own set of unexamined assumptions, invisible to the people inside it - and that seeing several societies is what makes your own visible.
Because a person inside one zeitgeist cannot easily see it, and the American Zeitgeist's specific claims about Black Americans become obviously constructed once you have seen another society construct different ones.
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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