Juneteenth 2019: Declare Your Political Independence!

June 19 is a great opportunity to acknowledge, educate and celebrate Juneteenth. It's also an opportunity for Black voters in the United States to declare their independence from the so called two party system. This is the time when we need to learn about electoral reform. We must teach why this is important for us to know by being informed voters and changing the political system to benefit everyone.

What issue around electoral reform will you focus on to teach in your community and work towards change?

Is It Time for Black Voters in the United States to Form Our Own Political Party...Again?

Black Americans have been slow or fearful about supporting a political party outside of the "majority two-party" system or registering as an independent.

In an interview in 2017, BET founder Robert Johnson mentioned that African Americans need to start an independent party. The interview is available to listen to at the link below.
https://woldcnews.com/1580782/robert-johnson-carl-nelson-independent-black-party/

It has been done in the past in the United States. However, are we as a people ready to move on from our votes being taken for granted and being the last...if at all...to see the results of support from the elected officials we put in office.

Please let us know your thoughts. Do Black people in America who can vote go towards forming their own party?

To the Black Voters in the United States: You and your vote are still being taking for granted.

The Founders of the Black Independent Voter Network are frustrated that African Americans continue to allow their votes to be taken for granted. Now, they are being pressured, bullied and using fear tactics by some of the leaders in the two major parties to vote for them. This is happening big time in interactions with people who are affiliated with the Democratic party.

We hope that you realized by now that when you vote for the "lesser of two evils," this is your result by that choice. It's time to move on and get off the "plantation" of these organizations.

Black People Are "Feeling the Bern"

We are dusting the spider webs off this blog. It's time for us to get out here and support independent minded candidates to run for public office.

We are amazed and glad to that Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator who is an Independent, is a candidate for president of the United States. We are glad to see that there are Black people that are supporting his campaign. They have become empowered and now letting the establishment know that they do not own our votes.

Black Independent Voters Facebook group

Black Independent Voters - and PROUD OF IT!!
There is a Black Independent Voters group on Facebook where you can express your views and connect with Independents. This blog does now own or manage the group, however, we encourage you to join it and tell others about it. Check it out at http://www.facebook.com/groups/254441151252494/.

We are not 'feeling' the current security procedures by TSA

We like how Ron Paul explains the TSA search problem:
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2010/11/ron_paul_remove_tsa_immunity_a.html

This is humiliating and very tacky for cancer survivors to go through this type of search. We believe that it also violates a person's right to privacy due to their medical condition.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40278427/ns/travel-news/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40291856/ns/travel-news/

This blog story also notes the security procedures used by the Israeli airline El Al that could be effective here in at US airports.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-michaelson/pass-the-john-tyner-bill-_b_784199.html

It's our government wasting tax dollars again that will not be effective in the long run.

DC Councilmember Marion Barry discusses welfare reform

Marion Barry: White Advocates Want to Continue Enslavement of Blacks
From Washington City Paper

Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry went on the Fox Business Channel today to kick off his tour as the poster child for welfare reform. At about the four minute mark, Barry makes the claim that African Americans are supportive of his proposal to impose a five-year limit on welfare payments while the white advocates who testified Monday against his proposal are basically trying to keep poor people of color "powerless" and "enslaved," albeit "less so" than before.

Why do people keep voting for him? Slavery is a state of mind. It's time for him to retire.

Americans Want A New Party

Video clip: David Collison, the chairman of the Reform Party of the United States, takes a moment to discuss the vitality of a legitimate third party movement.

America is about choices and taking risk. Are you brave enough to vote for the candidate that you represent what YOU believe? Will that candidate make your county, ward, state or country better than what it is now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwwYi0GpO5w

Why won't the GOP compete for African American votes?

"In many ways, it's a shame that African Americans will vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. " ~Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post

This article is a prime example of why Black voters will not advance in the US if they only vote...or put their eggs in one basket a.k.a the Democratic party. What major improvements has African Americans experienced lately? Has the number of Blacks in prison decrease nationally? Probably not and that is due to the fact that our political leaders also have their own agenda that they want to accomplish.

Back on the Blog

This blog has been on hiatus for over a year as the members of the the network has been involved in community projects across the country. We have decided to get back into the political arena to be a resource for Blacks who want to participate in the Independent movement. The writers of this blog are moderates (socially liberal, fiscally conservative), however, we want Black independent voters from all political spectrums to share their opinions and provide feedback on what we can do to ensure the political process truly represents the best of America.

We also want to be a resource for other races who want to recurit Black voters in the Independent movement. We understand that cultural and regional challenges are roadblocks to bring people of color in this movemnent. However, communication and the willingess to respect each other are the keys to get the United States of America back on track and continue to be a leader in this world.

We invite you to participate in this blog and be part of history. Please contact us by leaving a comment and someone will contact you on how to move forward.

Criticism of President Obama by Blacks - should we?

The opinion article in USA Today (7/21/2009) focuses on one of the core reasons why this blog exist. The lack of knowledge Black voters have about the "two-party" system structure and how it keeps them from being self-reliant.

Yes, we need to express criticism of President Obama. We also need to hear criticism about who and what we do as a race that is not benefiting the people and that is...and continues...to hurt Blacks. We cannot continue to say that 'white folks will not us get ahead' because we are responsible for what happens in our lives.

We need to view him as America's CEO and remember that our tax dollars pay his salary. When he was elected to office, he was chosen based on what he said during the campaign. Now it the time to put the words in to action, but he can only do so much because of Congress. At the same time, if his numbers in the polls continues to decline because Americans do not believe he is not doing his job effectively, he will not serve another term.

The majority that needs to be done requires Blacks to go out and do research on public affairs. The library has plenty of books on American Government and how it works. Only the educated Black voter will have the ability to empower others and see how the two-party system do not benefit Americans. In order for that to happen, the voter must educate people about current affairs in order to see their communities thrive and succeed.

Book: In The Balance of Power

In the Balance of Power — 2008
Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States
By Omar H. Ali

(The bloggers for the Network will provide a review by mid-August 2009)

18 Million Independents Vote for Barack Obama.

From IndependentVoting.org
November 2008

CUIP President Jackie Salit gives a post-election analysis of the independent movement and the 2008 presidential elections.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbFe11Bh40M

Voters are starting to sway from hesitation over third-party candidates

Third-party candidates face several challenges in a two-party system
http://www.dailytitan.com/1.893636

McCain Winning Independents

By Deborah Creighton Skinner on September 9th
Politics
Black Enterprise

John McCain is still seeing a big bounce in the wake of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, according to a recent Gallup poll.

The GOP senator got a six percentage-point climb in voter support “explained by political independents shifting to him in fairly big numbers, from 40% pre-convention to 52% post-convention in Gallup Poll Daily tracking.”

“Clearly, he is moving on the independents,” Gallup Poll editor-in-chief Frank Newport told the Washington Times of McCain.

The surge in independents who favor McCain marks the first time since Gallup began tracking voters’ general-election preferences in March that a majority of independents have sided with either of the two major-party candidates, according to Gallup.

That’s not all. After the Democratic National Convention and the RNC, McCain had a five-point lead over Obama Monday in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update, putting the Arizona lawmaker at 49% to Obama’s 44%.

Deborah Creighton Skinner is the editorial director for BlackEnterprise.com.

Black Americans running for President of the United States

Barack Obama (Democratic Party)
Cynthia McKinney (Green Party)
Alan Keys (American Independent Party)

JESSE VENTURA 2012?

By Domenico Montanaro
MSNBC.com
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
From NBC/NJ's Carrie Dann

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Ron Paul supporters may have found a new champion.

In boisterous remarks at today's Rally for the Republic, former Minnesota governor and professional wrestling personality Jesse Ventura suggested that he is open to a presidential run in 2012 if enthusiasm for "The Revolution" stays strong.

"If I see it over the next two to three years," thundered Ventura at the conclusion of a speech to several thousand Ron Paul supporters in the Target Center in Minneapolis. "If I see it start to rise up and if this country shows me that it's worth it for me, then maybe in 2012… ."

The crowd -- which has raucously booed allusions to this year's presidential candidates and cheered Paul's hands-off ideals at the all-day rally today -- burst into deafening applause at Ventura's suggestion.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/02/1328026.aspx

Ron Paul's counter-convention; Jesse Ventura takes over

The New York Times - Blog
September 2008

MINNEAPOLIS -- The crowd cheered at Rep. Ron Paul’s daylong counter-convention in Minneapolis. As many as 12,000 disillusioned Republicans and independents, according to organizers, had showed up at the Target Center, an NBA basketball arena, to cheer for the former Republican presidential candidate who raised so much money and so few delegates.
Paul told the crowd that he was told by Republican National Convention officials that he would need to be chaperoned if he showed up at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

But who wants to go to a boring old Republican convention that goes on and on for days in St. Paul when you can spend nine eternal hours indoors in Minneapolis listening to a host of conservative and libertarian speakers preach the virtues of the Republican congressman's libertarian-type politics?

But then came former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura. He suggested that there may be a government conspiracy covering up what....

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/ron-paul-ventur.html

My Turn: Frustrations of a true independent voter

By Frederick Shute
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Publised in The Camp Verde Bugle

What does it mean to be an independent voter?To me it means to be able to vote for the best individuals I feel will represent my system of values and beliefs for the political offices they seek.The political platforms of both the Republican and Democratic parties represent to me the lesser of two evils - and I am not sure which is more degenerate. Both political parties are controlled by the pharmaceutical, petrochemical, banking and military industrial powers that essentially control everything. John McCain and Barack Obama answer to the same masters. Anyone who believes otherwise is a fool.

http://campverdebugleonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=73&ArticleID=20916

McCain taking different approach than Bush to pursue black voters

By Alexander Bolton
Posted: 04/22/08 07:18 PM [ET]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is making an appeal to black voters this week, but he has taken a different approach than President Bush did during his 2004 reelection campaign.

While Bush highlighted an amendment seeking to ban gay marriage and other social issues to court black voters, McCain is championing education and other populist ideas. Part of McCain’s strategy is to make the case that the Democrats’ tax plan will negatively affect citizens across the economic spectrum.