02/14/2024
It is February 14th, 2020.
Today is Valentines’ Day. A day for those who love being in love and for lovers and for loving people.
I look around me and I see some of them. I have been one of them and I even married a woman whose birthday is February 14th. We did not stay married.
It is the middle of Black History Month. So much has happened to trigger strong emotions in me about this month. Politically, socially, financially there are so many things happening.
The Democrats are busy promoting themselves by sharing all the horrors and ugliness of the other Democratic candidates. I sincerely acknowledge that every human has erred and many continue to do so. We are partly our history and mostly how we live our lives today. As one of our elder states people said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” - Maya Angelou
That is good advice. Unfortunately there are so many people who refuse to know better, and then refuse to do better. These people come in all shades, shapes, colors, political ideologies.
Bloomberg has not yet convinced me that he is doing better. Klobuchar seems content to focus on her success and fails to acknowledge communities that she might have failed.
The Black electorate is changing in the US. It includes never-have-been-enslaved-in-history populations from the Caribbean and Africa and South America. It includes many people of the African diaspora. It is includes wealthy and poor, well-educated and education-deprived; Republican, Democrats, Grass Roots, Independents and some other political parties. There is no candidate that will be able to include all this electorate into their campaign, especially since the desires of the rest of the population are adversarial to much of what the vocal left is asking for.
The big tent is tearing at the seams. It is time to invite the stakeholders back to better define the platform of the Democratic party. This will allow other parties to grow and gain a foothold in the very non-representational political system. Rather than simple two-party politics, we may evolve (change if you don’t like evolution) in to coalition groups - name them what you will.
