Should Blacks Stop Voting Since The 2-Party System Isn't Working?

I have to say I don't relate to not voting. The reason being is that Blacks in the US are forced to pay taxes.

Blacks are paying probably at least $300 billion dollars a year in taxes on $1.3 trillion dollars in income. With $300 billion a year being forced out of our community I don't see how we can write the government a blank check.

Too often we are positioned as consumers in this economic system to support or finance our own economic and social enslavement. We can't afford to write the government a blank check too.

Since we pay so much in taxes we need a ROI. Therefore politically we should use the political system to control government expenditures in our community.

When the government buys goods and services we should get the contracts and use the income to advance ourselves locally and nationally. I'm seeing this in NYC with progressive candidates like Charles & Inez Barron, Letitia James, and James Sanders Jr. being elected locally to challenge the status quo politicians.

On Complaints That Black Men Aren't Successful Enough For Black women

A complaint I hear often in the media purportedly from Black women is that there aren't enough successful Black men for them to have mates.  The following article alludes to this being an American problem especially in the Black community.

However I'd like both sides in the Black community of the gender debate to look deeper at this issue.  Could we be contributing to our own economic demise due to unwitting consumerism?

In the US they are predicting that the median income for Black families will be zero. Most of Blacks income is spent as consumers.

Who do we pay our mortgages too, student loans, phone, cable, utilities, food, computers, etc? How many of these firms are owned by us?

When Black people spend 98% of their money with others outside their community and only 2% of their income with each other why would we expect to be viable and able to sustain families? We have an economic dependency problem that impacts both genders.

For instance statistically Black women still don't make as much as Black male workers. Also although Black women entrepreneurs are over 50% of the business owners in our community 2/3rds of the business income is generated by Black men. Brothas and sistahs need to come together and figure out how we can use our combined incomes to get more economic leverage.

A convo with Lanee Javet

An insightful Black business thought leader Lanee Javet posted a video on Facebook that I recently responded too on Facebook.  She referenced convo I see a lot in reference to Black business by Black people.

That is Blacks don't support Black businesses more because too many are unprofessional.  Black business are unprofessional in ways like bad customer service, come in to work late, open up their shops late, workers have a bad work ethic etc.  I've seen these types of claims before online.

I listened to her whole video although it was hard for me to relate to because we have so many well run and professional businesses in NYC. I think there are about 250,000 businesses here and there are so many well run Black owned restaurants with good staff.

I have to say this is a important issue with me. With only about 2% support from Black people Black businesses employ about 1 million Black people and generates about $180 billion dollars. This means hypothetically if we could move our support from 2% to like 25% we'd have enough economic power to hire every Black person presently unemployed.

I understand the points Ms. Javet is making that some of our people aren't easy to work with but there of many like her and me who work very hard. But what I fear happens, and hope doesn't happen, is when we have bad experiences we stereotype our own ethnic group.

Lastly I'd have to say the negative experiences I get with major corporations and brands is much worst than what I get with our Black businesses in many larger respects. Look at these platform many Black people use now.

It stifles progressive Black thought and business but allows Black hate speech and trolls stealing elections. It is being sued for data breeches and pushes negative Black content over positive Black content. Google does bad things on our community too like favoring content from mainstream brands over Black content even on organic Black topics.

I could go on about the outsourcing on their customer services to places where English is a 2nd language and it is hard to get cogent customer service. It seems too often Blacks support bad service from mainstream businesses and if a Black business person does something a bit wrong they are ready to tear them apart and use it as a rationale never to support a Black business again while letting mainstream businesses fleece them all to often.