What do we need to Make America Great?”
Asked by Angela Stanton King a candidate for Congress. If you’re interested you’ll have to find the thread on Twitter.
I’ll point out that every quote is from a black voice, and I barely scratched the surface.
I guess these are folks you might want to listen to.
I didn’t put the name of everyone quoted, because it’s all in the Twitter thread.
35 comments:
“We need Black America to stop giving racism more power than it has. The racists are the weak and Black America is a lot stronger.”
“STOP SAYING “BLACK AMERICA”. Of course I’m black but I’m American 1st.”
“Start making sure Black Children Learn to Read nothing is more important than that.”
“Unite with ALL races, become diverse and learn from others that do not look like us but have similar goals. Celebrate our black inventors/professionals outside of rappers, singers, athletes, entertainers and criminals . We can do more that that! Our children need to see it.”
“We need to stop blaming everyone else for our shortcomings especially "the whiteman"”
“Teach our children the value of hard work, let them know nothing is given and everything is earned. Teach them how to budget themselves and be financially responsible.”
“Repent.
Honor the God of the Bible as the God of this nation.
Align ourselves with the nation of Israel.
Stop killing our unborn babies.
Keep our families intact.
Recognize marriage as one man and one woman.
Do away with the welfare system.
Bring ALL our jobs back to the US.”
“Disscusion is a GREAT start! Rebuild the foundation of the black family, discuss what we will/will not choose to embrace in our culture. And GET YOU IN OFFICE ASAP!”
“Understand black people aren’t a monolith
Create strong families
Reduce fatherless households
Inspire to become brokers and doctors not ball players
Reduce black or black crime
Understand our vast history not just 246 years of slavery
Understand we don’t come from nothing”
“Get everyone back on welfare, free cell phones, and foot stamps and benefits for everyone. Open borders, weak military and give other countries all our money”
“1) Fathers
2) Self Reliance
3) School Choice”
“Can we stop the Senseless street or gang violence against black people and especially our black kids being shot and killed in there home or walking to school! For instance, in Chicago,Baltimore, blacks are being massacred! We have innocent children being killed! No kids=No future”
“..SUPPORT Black GOP candidates that run.
$$$
Time
Staff
Strategy
Platforms for exposure
Other resources
Interdependence (i.e., Black urban candidates can have a similar platform without the same talking points/rhetoric)
This is how 1 "brings politics back to the people".”
“Bring large US corporations factories/manufacturers back into the US and place them in urban neighborhoods.”
“Not being used by the left.
Understanding that the sky is the limit.
We can get anywhere in life if we invest ourselves.
We need to return to God, family and raise our kids to respect self & each other.
Let's get into positions of power and influence, we can influence decisions”
“Knowledge of Self (History)
Fathers Manning Up
Return to GOD fearing families
Personal Accountability
Financial Literacy
Increased Mentorship
Instilling Discipline in our Youth
Embracing 2nd Amend
Eliminate Victim Mentality
Better Eating Habits
OG's Chastising OUR YG's!”
“We need to come together as one first and foremost then we need to drain the swamp of our own such as these celebrities and people with a voice and platform that isn’t helping we need to exclude them from us. It’s a lot of stuff we need to do the list goes on and on.”
“Get rid of planned parenthood
Teach valuable shit in school, make schools teach about understanding the different paths of careers
Stop hypersexualizing the youth
@PHARAOH_ATEN_ for President🤣”
“Figure out how to stop cradle to the grave welfare assistance. Change the mindset on parenting...more empathy in parenting to up the odds of child being healthy, responsible and respectful adult.”
“We need to lower the infant mortality rates for black babies. In my state of Ohio for every 1 white baby that dies 8 black babies die before the age of 1, we need access to technology the digital divide is real, we need job creation, we need immigrantion reform.”
“I wholeheartedly agree. More access to free marriage counseling, boys and men's accountability groups, and mentorship program. Start with a good foundation in any home (White, Asian, Hispanic, Black), high likelihood they will be productive, not destructive members of society.”
“Fully funded education, universal healthcare, labor rights(unions etc) to balance the power of corporations. From there our people will have a solid baseline to thrive.”
“More Black Judges that ain't afraid of the systemic racism that goes on when giving people of color (mainly black people) hard rime that does not match up for the minor offenses. Also, not be afraid to push for police officers that kill at will to be charged as Murderers.”
“We as black people need to really study numbers on who we support, so we can see where we spend our money and why it never generates back in our community. That's down to the bag of chips and bobby pins💯”
“Would love to see the fathers in the homes building strong relationships with their children. We need to return to God and the word.Need to be proactive in cleaning up the communities and engage in their children schools. Be a part of city council and forming neighborhood qroups.”
“Start raising youth and not abandoning to the streets to be raised by fake rap videos. Too many homes with no leadership”
“Stop killing ourselves in gang and other violent crimes. Come together and treat each other with mutual respect. Once change has been made within, we will be more effective making change outside of the community.”
“Wealth. We need wealth. Ownership is wealth. It makes no sense for a people who built the U.S to not own any of its wealth. Secondly we aren't African Americans its not an ethnicity. We need an identity”
“we need to start by tossing out our sense of victimhood”
“This is really strange to me, why when 'N' word is hated, at the same time it is so popular in rap. Black people has invented so many great things in music, as example jazz, reggae and dub. Sad, that they've lost their popularity nowadays.”
“If you listen to the loud voices, they'll say socialism/Marxism.
What the black community really needs is less indoctrination of victimhood, a more positive message of hope, a path to a bright future through work and getting to keep the fruits of their labor.”
“A community program that teaches blacks the opportunities that are available. The program should include: education, learning a job skill, encouragement that they are worth it, importance of getting married, how to build credit and how to escape poverty.”
“Do away with Affirmative Action. We’re all caught up now, let’s move forward”
“Complete school choice, every kid has an education voucher that can be used at any school, public, private, religious,.home. Bring all production back from China.”
Well, that collection certainly runs the gamut, doesn't it? Nice to see most are rational. The rest our lefty friends will love.
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