Black Vote in the 2024

A Misaligned Black Vote in the 2024 Election Could Mean More than Democratic Defeat.

The gamble of losing the American democratic construct has profound implications for the Black race, gender, and culture.  Reproductive rights for women have been overturned, equitable access to education dismantled, and the practice of equal employment opportunity is again bias. Nationally, everyone is watching a crumbling American democratic system. However, at the same time, the historical fight for civil liberty for Black people is becoming a parable, and equal justice unseen. 

All women are affected by the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Still, impoverished Black women are four times more likely to need access to reproductive healthcare. 

Legislation has drastically returned the women’s suffrage movement back in time, but among Black women there has been a greater loss. All women are affected by the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Still, impoverished Black women are four times more likely to need access to reproductive healthcare.  Systemically in the absence of reproductive choice, the imminent reality for these impoverished newborns is to be that of a human source that fuels pipelines from the cradle through child welfare and into the prison system – cheaper by the dozen.  These pipelines will also be lubricated with unaddressed adversarial trauma and mental health pathologies.

Education and employment intersect to impact socioeconomic worth.   Historically, Blacks have been on unequal footing in both of these areas but have consistently overachieved to receive biased opportunities to establish generational wealth to climb out of poverty.  In the absence of programs under affirmative action, an equitable ladder for climbing out of disparity has been removed.

On the national stage, there is a need for a reawakening to what is at stake if a collective vote to preserve the democratic structure cannot be mobilized among Black voters. Threats of increased splits in the Black vote – between democratic, republican, and independent parties – strengthens the opponent’s election leverage during this extremely critical time.  A by any means necessary stance – from Black voters – is being lost to captivating reality show personalities with autocratic ideologies who are demanding to make America an oppressed nation again. 

The American democratic construct is comprised of a leading body of actors arranged to rhetorically balance this system of justice.  The president, state legislators, and members of the Supreme Court are among those primary actors who are selected to shepherd the fragile system that is supposed to nurture liberty and freedom for everyone who believes in democracy.  At this extremely critical time, the history of Black suffrage that birthed pathways leading to the audacity of hope is becoming delusional; and as a result, its mission is tragically distorted. 

Less than 60 years ago Black Americans were afforded Civil Rights after 20 years of mobilization against oppressive legislation.  However, as televised trials, political contention, global unrest, and misinformed propaganda plays out, there is darkness in the distance. Today’s presidential episodes – of lawless and disorder –upstages the need to remobilize Black voting power to uphold social justice and equal rights.  Although Blacks might not overtly be returned to dehumanizing chains; however, one political misstep could result in the birthing of a new Jim Crow 2.0.