Scrupulous evaluation of the political environment of Black America reveals little change to the state of Black America. If the National Urban League can print the same statistics on Black America from year to year, and in some cases even worse statistics, how can anyone in their right mind believe that politics has helped Blacks in this country?

If more Black men are entering prison, more Black women and children are in poverty, more Black schools are doing worse, Black families are disappearing, Black health is declining, and unemployment for Blacks remain stagnant, and all these statistics mirror 1970 stats, prove to the nation that the political offices held by Blacks, the Black mayors and council people, are making a difference.

Like a lie that works no more, politics and Black America is simply not mixing. Laws are not there to help Blacks, but most are there to neutralize Black progress, be it in business, personal, housing, zoning, or whatever would bring progress to the Black community, laws are made for the advancement of whites, not Blacks as a whole.

The two-party system in this country ignores Black needs to fulfill their own. Congress is all white, the Senate is all white, the Supreme Court is all white, the states governorship is all white, and the president's administration is all white, and if there is a Black face in the mist of any of the above, it means nothing because the agenda is all white.

Katrina revealed this truth, that America, including its politics, is a system based on white needs, not Black ones. Black so-called leaders who encourage us to vote for either of the political parties are wasting their time and energy trying to change the hearts and minds of a people determined to feed their own before any others. And why should Blacks depend solely on government to do anything for them anyway.

Black America should design and built their own system of politics, justice and economics alongside the white one. Many other cultures in America do it, why not Blacks? Why are Black people so dependant on the American government. Many believe that this government owes Black America something for the crimes of slavery and the disenfranchisement of the Jim Crow era and rightly so, but this government in all its whiteness will never concede or give in to our demands, let alone pay reparations.

Politics is not the answer for Blacks in America, a communal movement is necessary led by Black men and women who can rise above the dead ends of politics. Something new must be implemented if Blacks want to improve their quality of life and for every Black person in this country to have an equal chance at survival.

Here are 10 basic suggestions:

1. Start an independent minority party, including Hispanics, Indians, Asians and other
2. Design and run minority television and news channel and bring racism to the front
3. Control the means of a needed product for income, i.e. power, food, or automobiles
4. Control a needed service and make it affordable, i.e. health/home insurance, private education
5. Develop a minority stock market and involve the working poor
6. Begin a banking and loan system to combat the Federal Reserve
7. Network and do business with foreign countries by import and export
8. Design and implement a system of alternative justice to offer our youth a second chance
9. Design a national program that train the young in the ways of family and social relations
10. Establish military-type training for students fresh out of high school, yet not as an army

This concept may sound far fetched now but in years to come, when there is a white organization that implements this because they feel the oppression of the U.S. government, then Blacks will want to join in, but this will be a mistake because once again they will fall under white rule.

It may sound far-fetched now, but when survival mode is needed in this country, many will see that communal unity and group camaraderie will come in handy. It is best to lay the groundwork for this organization now than to wait and allow the resources to be taken by another group of people who share the same vision.

Black America has to wake up from their slumber and begin to build something contrary to this sad system of American politics. We cannot depend on it any longer to look out for us; we need to look out for ourselves. Contrary to popular opinion, beginning a system such as this does not mean we are separatist, it means we are fed up with being separated.

© July 2007 by CR Hamilton