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.
A party that cannot say precisely who it represents will end up representing whoever funds it.
A vote that is guaranteed is a vote that is worthless.
The mechanics are public, unglamorous and entirely achievable. Most people have simply never been told them.
A PAC is how a constituency speaks in the language the political system actually listens to.
We keep producing extraordinary leaders and no machinery. Then we lose the leader and start over.
The two-axis map of American politics was not drawn with Black American interests in mind.
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