As 2023 comes into focus, the challenge for the Black American family is to thrive, and survive the country’s insanity and madness. With 70% of Black women in America raising Black children without a Black man, the family is in disarray and in confusion. Many Black men will place the blame on the system, but Black women have decided they don’t need Black men to be successful.
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When 25-year-old Maxwell Frost of Florida takes his seat in the U.S House this month, he will be the nation’s first Gen Z member of Congress. That — in and of itself — is a major milestone and accomplishment. And what makes it even better is that Frost is a young Black man who won on a great platform focused on ending gun violence, addressing climate change, and providing universal health care.
America’s existential challenge is to put the former behind us permanently so we can finally achieve the latter and be what we pledge allegiance to — one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. After the attack on the Capitol, I sat down to figure out how we might finally do that, and my answers have filled a book.
Unbelievably, social media outlets such as MSNBC have reported that the MEGA coalition of millions of white supremacists are suffering because they’ve lost homes, children to wars, savings, and endless others. None of these human crises are new or should constitute a justifiable reason to overthrow the government. Certainly, they shouldn’t cause devoted Evangelical Christians to covenant Ex-president Donald Trump. MEGA’s worse nightmare is their lost air of white supremacy.
Building On Our Successes in 2023
President Biden and Congress committed almost $700 billion in the next 10 years to reducing pollution, particularly in marginalized communities most likely to suffer, and to making the transportation and energy sectors cleaner to preserve the climate. We need to appreciate the investment to save our fragile planet made in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act as our Earth shot.
Bobby Henry, standing well over six feet tall as Publisher of the Westside Gazette, has answered the call to literally become the new Sheriff in the Broward County School District. In fact, he’s reminiscent of the character played by Joe Don Baker in the movie entitled , Walking Tall. This movie was based on a true story of Bufford Pusser, a tough Tennessee Sheriff who defended justice using a single plank of wood the size of a baseball bat.
A Change is Gonna Come
Since President Biden came into office, he has made it a priority to nominate federal judges who are not only legal stars but are diverse, come from underrepresented professional backgrounds, and have a deep commitment to civil rights. Many of them have been civil rights lawyers or public defenders. This is a real change, even from past Democratic presidents. For decades, presidents most often nominated corporate lawyers or prosecutors to the bench. Those people were also overwhelmingly white and male. Not anymore.
America throughout its history has embraced a sanctimonious white supremacists’ ideology. Religious tenets as well as laws codified function to empower them. Colonialism also became a means to control and dominate others deemed less human. The new white settlers who arrived on the shores of America in 1600, from England, brought with them their beliefs in slavery and ethnocentrism. In other words, the indigenous Natives already living on their land were called savages and Black people deemed subhuman.