...especially since a girl is trying to graduate next semester...double major WITH a minor IN four years, okay!!??!!!
Honeykiss1974, you are right, there IS a Black platform. However, the political alignment of parties won't allow for a non-extremist conservative/liberal to hold the torch for Blacks and/or to support THAT platform (a senstivity to historical issues while addressing the 'now' matters). Extremists (tools like Alan Keyes--what a tactless so-and-so
!) sell. Middle men/women like myself and others on this board don't. We don't sell because the parties themselves have become represented by the extremists and Americans (at least the voting ones) have taken their cues and gone with it. The rest of those who aren't straight ticket Democrat or Republican either don't vote or just go with the one that is most influential at the time/at that place.
Also, the 'how' is THE key factor in this debate. When working on a political campaign a few years ago in Detroit/Highland Park (anyone from there can understand it), I was thinking, as many people do, 'Why won't these/we (constituents of the respective areas) people vote? How hard can it be?', until I realized every other woman/man I asked to register/attend the education classes offered at the community college/high school told me:
A) I have to work. I already don't get paid enough so I have to take on more hours, etc
B) I have to find someone to watch my kid(s). My mom/grandmother/sister/aunt/whatever cannot because they have to work/already watching someone else's.
C) Don't care.
D) All of the above
So then, I realized there needs to be an option or a voice that speaks to all of the above responses.
Because you have to--this affects you the most! And once I got over my fear, my hurt and dissapointment, I told them that. A lot weren't receptive, but after a while, I was talking who those who were willing to listen, who heard what I had to say and were wiling to make a change. Not just in the immediate now, but in the future.
Simply put: there needs to be more of ME'S
and less of Keyes!! Lol--but seriously, though. Let's motivate! Let's teach instead of preach! We already know how people (i.e. the more vocal and influential ones) are 'fottin' up handling things so we don't need to beat that dead horse. We need to figure out how many ways to motivate...it won't take ONE thing; it might take many. But however long it needs to take, it needs to be done..
But we all need to be on the same page...I might write a manifesto--I tend to be good at long rambling posts; surely I could come up with SOMETHIN' or at least nothing short of a dissertation!!
---Man, midterms are kickin' my BUTT!!
At least there is somewhere for me to vent to people who *hopefull* read and maybe understand where I'm coming from...
enigma_AKA
PS--Sistermadly, I might run for office if they actually did something in Detroit. I am pursuing Public Adminstration---I wanna control the funds!! Put them somewhere useful, instead of in Kwame Kilpatrick's (oops, did i type that aloud!) wallet!