Policy Mandate For Black America
Today, the International Black Freedom Alliance on behalf of the nearly 50 million Black people of this nation and the millions of our ancestors who have died and were killed in pursuit of freedom and justice do assert the following.
The time where our votes can be taken for granted is officially over. As predicted this election came down to Black voter turnout. We as a voting block came out at nearly 90% for the Democratic party not only in the general election but as well as in the runoff in Georgia. Over the past few weeks though, we have watched policy after policy and executive order after executive order be passed based on symbolism and substance. Even though we delivered the Senate, Congress and White House to one political party, to some of our people’s dismay, they were shocked but we were expecting just that.
So this time demands of us to be and do something different. To ask for much more bolder policies and to be prepared for when or if we do or do not receive what we deserve.
This campaign is geared towards meeting the basic needs of all our people. Period. We start with some empowering yet passable demands. We do this to test if the Biden/Harris administration was on the campaign trial just selling our people false promises or are they actually ready to be courageous and committed the issues of Black America.
So that we are clear, we are not Democrat nor Republican and like Malcolm X said, ‘and we got sense enough to know it”. We are simply a few of the nearly 50 million victims of policies of the Democrat and Republican parties.
In our policy mandate you will find calls to action in the areas of housing, healthcare, food and education of course. But what you will also find are calls for the release of victims of a unjust criminal justice system, demands for Black businesses districts to be developed and a call for reparations to be studied with a plan for implementation by 2022. And crazy part is that everyone of these demands are fiscally and legislatively possible. We hope by starting with simple yet easy polices that can be implemented within the first 100 days of this administration, that we can quickly get to the more substantial legislation before the midterm elections. It is our goal to get these policies passed no matter which party implements it. Though math is on the Democratic Party’s side, we will let us if they are truly serious about racial justice in America.
So that brings us to a quote from our abolitionist ancestor Fredrick Douglas “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
We want to make ourselves very clear, that if these basic yet passable laws and polices are not implemented by May 1st, 2021 then we will be forced to do what president FDR once told A. Philip Randolph. “now Make you do it.” That we will.