African American Politics

Three central points that illustrate key political issues of concern are mass unemployment, mass incarceration, and disenfranchisement that create some kind of  racial inequality of the 21th century as stated by: Manning Marable. The panelist are aiming toward trying to rise concern to the African American population about how the republicans want the African Americans to support them more and to give them the opportunity to regain the trust of the African Americans and in the minds of the republicans they believe that African Americans should realize the benefits that they will receive, but Marable brings up the point that republicans want so much from African Americans and they are not doing anything to help the issues at hand that African Americans are facing. Republicans are not trying to produce more jobs in the black community only take away because, if that was the case unemployment rates would be decreasing in stead of increasing, and half of Harlem's black males wouldn't be unemployed. If republicans intentions were to help build up the urban communities there would not have been a case were in a Presidential election over a million votes were spoiled and over half of them were those of African Americans. Manning states that there seems to be a trade off between reputation and power in black politics, and Professor Diawara states that he believes black politics have more to do with reputation because African Americans are always faced with defending themselves because of the images that has been painted of African Americans since the beginning of time. I get from him that black people are always faced with someone or society telling them that they can't do or be something till all they know is to fight to prove themselves worthy of being or becoming anything any one else can do or become.