Time Is Right For Independent Party For Blacks In America

The most sweep­ing civ­il rights leg­is­la­tion passed by Congress since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, the Civil Rights Act pro­hib­it­ed racial dis­crim­i­na­tion in employ­ment and edu­ca­tion and out­lawed racial seg­re­ga­tion in pub­lic places such as schools, bus­es, parks and swim­ming pools. In addi­tion, the bill laid impor­tant ground­work for a num­ber of oth­er pieces of leg­is­la­tion – includ­ing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which set strict rules for pro­tect­ing the right of African Americans to vote – that have since been used to enforce equal rights for women as well as all minori­ties.[History​.com]

Democratic President Lyndon Johnson signed the Act into LawJuly 2^nd 1962 after the death of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
For the sign­ing of the his­toric leg­is­la­tion, Johnson invit­ed hun­dreds of guests to a tele­vised cer­e­mo­ny in the White House’s East Room. After using more than 75 pens to sign the bill, he gave them away as memen­toes of the his­toric occa­sion, accord­ing to tra­di­tion. One of the first pens went to Dr Martin Luther King, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), who called it one of his most cher­ished possessions.
I include this bit of American History for some per­spec­tive on why rel­e­vant and just mes­sage of Religious free­dom gets lost in the noise because the mes­sen­gers have dirty hands.

After sign­ing the land­mark leg­is­la­tion into law President Johnson won the elec­tions of 1964 by a lop­sided mar­gin over his Republican rival Barry Goldwater Johnson, who had suc­cess­ful­ly asso­ci­at­ed him­self with Kennedy’s pop­u­lar­i­ty, won 61.1% of the pop­u­lar vote.
Johnson served his term but did not stand for re-elec­tion four years later.
White Racists in the coun­try incensed at Johnson for what they saw as a betray­al ran from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.
Ironically it was the Republican Party which was more aligned with the caus­es of blacks previously.

1. Abraham Lincoln issued the pre­lim­i­nary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22^nd, 1862. It stip­u­lat­ed that if the Southern states did not cease their rebel­lion by January 1^st, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect.
   

Lincoln did sign the Emancipation dec­la­ra­tion on January 1^st 1863.
Blacks grav­i­tat­ed to the Republican Party as a result. 
Notwithstanding, it was Democrats Bobby Kennedy,Lyndon Johnson and John F Kennedy’s push, which saw the Civil Rights Act become law.
Arguably both the Emancipation Declaration and the land­mark Civil Rights Act signed by Johnson, came at crit­i­cal times when the sign­ers were left with lit­tle choice but to sign both Acts into law.
Both Lincoln and Johnson may have had great­ness thrust upon them as a result of the way events unfolded.

After Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law , racist Democrats and Republicans lit­er­al­ly hijacked the Republican Party.
Democrats have not won the South in nation­al elec­tions since.
Today blacks make up rough­ly 12% of the nation’s population.
Blacks are the most loy­al vot­ers in the Democrat Party.
The Republican par­ty has not hid­den its hos­til­i­ty to blacks and black causes. 
In fact, the only notable Republic at the recent march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 50^th com­mem­o­ra­tion of the now infa­mous blood-Sunday, was for­mer President G W Bush and his wife Laura.

Such is their dis­dain and revul­sion for black Americans and what’s impor­tant to us.
Republican can­di­dates run­ning for office vie to see who can be the most dis­re­spect­ful to blacks.
Because of that blacks are left with no ambiguity,the repub­li­can par­ty does not want or care for their support
So blacks who are not total­ly stuck in uncle-tom’s ‑cab­in can­not sup­port or vote for the Republican party.
The Democrat par­ty has not only tak­en blacks and their vote for grant­ed the par­ty does noth­ing for the black community.

In recent and ongo­ing instances of police slaugh­ter of unarmed black men, the par­ty has been con­spic­u­ous­ly silent. 
The demo­c­rat par­ty has an almost pas­sive aggres­sive rela­tion­ship with blacks.
One which says I don’t like you , but I will tol­er­ate you for your vote.
There is not a sin­gle black United States Senator in the Democrat Party, despite black­’s loy­al and pre­dictable sup­port for the party.

Based on that, it is time for blacks to form anoth­er polit­i­cal par­ty in America, their own par­ty, one which is open to all but led by blacks.
An Independent par­ty, then vote whole-sale for that party.
This new par­ty may not win a nation­al elec­tion any­time soon.
But it posi­tions our votes in a way which makes it imper­a­tive that those who need our sup­port must come to us.
Those wish­ing to form admin­is­tra­tions will be forced to lis­ten to and acqui­esce to our our con­cerns and demands.
The demands of our com­mu­ni­ty must be front and cen­ter, if they dare renege, we remove our sup­port en-block ‚and it’s back to the bal­lot box­es we go.
Change will not come because we ask for it.
Change comes when we demand it.