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.
Conserving Black America is not the same as joining the conservative movement.
To conserve is to protect what works. For Black Americans that means the two-parent household, the church and its discipline, the trade passed from father to son, the business kept in the family, respect for elders, the expectation of excellence, and a culture of mutual obligation that carried this people through conditions designed to destroy it.
Those are our conservative institutions. Most were stronger in 1955 than they are now, under far worse external conditions. That fact deserves more attention than it gets.
The visible Black conservative has typically been someone who adopted another movement's full programme, including the parts written against Black interests, and was rewarded for the endorsement. That is not conservatism; it is employment.
True Black conservatism conserves Black American institutions. It is under no obligation to defend tax policy written for people who do not live here, and it is free to demand government action where government action is what the situation requires.
Traditional on family. Rigorous on education and personal conduct. Sceptical of dependency. Committed to ownership and enterprise. And entirely unembarrassed about demanding that the state honour obligations it has evaded - because there is nothing conservative about letting a debt go unpaid.
Conserving the Black American institutions that work - the two-parent household, the church, the trade, the family business, respect for elders - rather than adopting the conservative movement's full programme.
Mainstream Black conservatism typically adopts another movement's entire platform, including parts written against Black interests. True Black Conservatism conserves Black American institutions and is free to demand state action where it is warranted.
Income is what you earn. Wealth is what is still there when you are not.
A gap this size does not close by accident, and it does not close by complaint either.
Greenwood is cited constantly and studied rarely. Both halves of the lesson matter.
Property is the foundation of generational wealth, and Black American families have been losing it for a century.
Inflation is a tax on the producer and a thief of savings, and it falls hardest on the people with the least cushion.
Some businesses locate in our communities precisely because the alternatives are thin.
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