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 opening address of the party's founding text — who it is written for, and the terms on which it asks to be read.
This book is for everyone, but especially for Americans. This book is for Americans, but especially for citizens of the United States. More especially still, for Black Americans. I invite everyone to read my observations on the political state of Black America, and my open call for the final formation of a party of, by and for Black Americans.
When I say Black Americans, I must be clear about a few things. There is a lot of controversy surrounding the political body of our group, the group presently referred to as African-Americans. I will reveal my age and admit that I remember when we were referred to as Negro, Colored, and unspeakable terms, but I am most comfortable referring to us as Black Americans.
Does this group include every person of African descent living in the United States? When I say Black Americans, I mean Foundational Black Americans — the descendants of those whose labor, genius, and sacrifice built this nation. Ours is a lineage, not a complexion and not a passport stamp. We hold our brothers and sisters throughout the African diaspora in genuine respect and kinship, and we will work and trade with them gladly. But the political body this party speaks for, and the constituency whose interests it exists to advance, is the Foundational Black American population of the United States.
You will find that the proposed policies and positions outlined in this manuscript represent a political platform that advocates for Black Americans as well as all Americans as a whole. When you understand the logic of what is contained in these pages, you will understand that what is good for Black America is good for all of America.
I am going to be blunt and direct in my approach. Being that Black is a race, it would be impossible to discuss our political position as a race without discussing the other groups with whom we share America and the world as their respective races. Because of this, it would be impossible to write this book without offending the racial sensibilities of everyone who does not identify him or herself as Black.
I am going to be blunt and direct in my approach.
Non-Black readers should think of this book as though you were invited by one of your black friends to a barber shop or beauty salon, and you quietly sat aside and eavesdropped on an honest conversation between Black people. We have been identified and marginalized as a group throughout our history. This gives us the right to identify ourselves as the same group, and communicate frankly among each other. If you gleam some knowledge or insight into the Black American psyche in this book, good. If you find yourself offended by anything you read, please read on. I’m sure you will be even more offended before finishing this work. If you are not black, and your view of Black people is any less honorable and dignified than your view of your own people, then you are likely to be offended by what you read in this book.
I will begin each chapter with a “Barber Shop Quote”, that summarizes the basic thesis of the chapter in plain English. I encourage you to read each chapter thoroughly, and to try to read all of the chapters in the order presented. There are terms explained early in the book that are used several times throughout the text. If you bounce around, or start from somewhere in the middle, you may find yourself combing through earlier chapters to find the definition of some terms.
I intend to deliberately introduce positions that are considered “politically incorrect” by the standards of the dominant culture in which we live at the time and place of this writing. Political correctness, for better or for worse, was constructed outside of Black American culture. Black American Culture, for better or for worse, is often considered politically incorrect. This is only a warning. I do not apologize, nor do I intend to apologize.
It is my hope that this book be the spark that launches the Black American Party as a legitimate political party in the United States. This is an idea that is long overdue. I will explain the logic behind all of the principles and policies of my proposed platform. I hope that Black American students will use this book to help build a solid, cohesive, non-contradictory political direction for Black citizens of the United States of America. It is my belief that Americans of all races will agree with most of the policies and principles presented here. After reading this entire book you may come to understand that what is good for Black America is good for all of America.
In the end, when the Black American Party platform is fully developed and implemented, the consensus among the Black American population may disagree entirely with many of the policy positions I present in this book. I don’t mind this, as long as the Black American Party represents the basis for structural leadership for the black American community.
It is not my desire to run for political office. I do not seek to be a political leader of any sort. In fact, as I explain later in this book, I believe that it is time for the Black American community to move beyond a political paradigm that embraces charismatic leadership, to one that embraces structural leadership. Let the Black American party be the basis for that structural leadership.
Two centuries of being an easily manipulated voting bloc — and the case for ending that arrangement.
Not what was done to us, but what we intend to build — the party's long view for Black America.
The commonly held assumptions that shape American life — and the specific ones the party names as false.
What is strongest in Black American culture, and what is holding it back — named honestly, from the inside.
Anti-war and pro-strong-military — and why passports change politics.
School choice on one standard, abacus mind math, coding from grammar school, and entrepreneurship as a core subject.
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