Addressing Racial Inequality
After 400 years of unequal treatment, Black Americans have had enough with “gradual” reform in a nation that prides itself as the world’s greatest democracy. While well- intentioned solutions may have been tried; it is simply too much to ask an oppressed people to stay “patient.” To finally create the “more perfect union” all Americans deserve, it is time for a complete paradigm shift in how we run our institutions and operate our country. While this Contract with Black America may seem radical to some, the result will be a harmonious society that benefits EVERYONE rather than the more radical alternative which is watching the great American experiment come apart at the seams.
The problems facing America are too deep and wide to simply reform one area or another. Long-lasting solutions demand a comprehensive thorough “rethink” of America so that each new approach in each area supports the success of the others. This Contract with Black America will provide conceptual approaches in several areas including addressing Black opportunity and representation, bank lending and finance reform, judicial and public policy reform, expansion of 13th Amendment rights, police reform, reform in Hollywood, and an approach to our confederate past. It will then present more in-depth proposals showing how these guiding principles can be put into action, first through a plan for “Neo- Reconstruction” followed by the “America’s Job Pact” AJP, a plan that addresses Jobs and Education.
