The 2016 election cycle was a reality check for American politics but also a rude awakening for black America. There is no guarantees when it comes to freedom, peace,security and a dignity of a community of people. They are issues that requires people to be vigilante and scrutinize and push back threats that could threaten individual liberty and freewill.
Think about the fact that we are in the 21st century and one would have taught millenials will be up to speed on the issue that has plaqued this country for centuries and have ruined the quality of life in certain communities. There is a saying Rome was not built in a day but once something is built, people have to study how it was built to improve their learning curve moving forward. The State of black America today should make us worried because a total collapse of the African psyche is detrimental to our chances of survival.
Previous generations wanted to save the race and Africa first and fought to make sure that objective was met. The millenial generation's objective is to study history to be able to rebuild the community thats been decimated by racism. Some how we have taking a hiatus and substituted reality with so called diversity and multicultural initiatives. Diversity and multicultural initiatives was mainly about strategic partnerships and alliances rather than a panacea to racism or for our unique communal platform..
History tells us the black community went from voting Republican to Democrat mainly because of the issue of race and which party was going to fulfill the black interest. The Republicans for sometime where proponents of pushing for policies that helped the black community. At some point they abandoned the black interest and the community found an alliance in the Democratic party along the way. Once that alliance was forged till date the community has voted democrat overwhelmingly and has not seriously evaluated the performance of the party as far its socioeconomic interest since the civil rights bill passage.
The last election cycle showed that Trump had over performed Romney in the number of black votes. So why will a community that will not tolerate racism vote for someone that has made it clear he has nothing substantial to offer the black community except that it was time to break the fever of voting democrat. African American millenials need to evaluate themselves in this country moving forward if they really want to have a seat at the table and a stake in the economic pie or else their socioeconomic standing will deteriorate worse than we see today. For their interest, the black community is headed towards a zero networth by 2050 and that is just around the corner.
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