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Reassessing the strength of Black support for Kamala Harris.

Bloomberg yesterday reported that 44 million black women raised $1.5 million for Vice-President Kamala Harris within a three-hour period. Among the supporters were Bernice King, daughter of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; U.S. Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California; U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio; and U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of … Continue reading Reassessing the strength of Black support for Kamala Harris.

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Domestic mercantilism keeps the race question out of banking …

Lineage is the framework through which I see myself in this political economy. My views on the political economy are steeped in observing my family members participate in trade. I saw members of both sides of my family in the Eastern Caribbean act as retail and wholesale merchants. Through merchant activity they brought their communities value. Value gets … Continue reading Domestic mercantilism keeps the race question out of banking …

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How do Blacks navigate a currency system they did not create? By showing they know the currency system better than anyone else.

Black Americans have been making arguments about reparations for slavery for decades. The argument that the United States owes the descendants of Africans brought to the United States is a powerfully emotional one. Today’s Blacks are either descendants of African indentured servants who saw their contracts for freedom broken by wealthy Anglo-Saxon landowners, merchants, or … Continue reading How do Blacks navigate a currency system they did not create? By showing they know the currency system better than anyone else.

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Counsel on political leadership. The Democrats need a whole new slate.

Voters in general and Black voters in particular have allowed the Democratic leadership to get away with offering low hanging fruit disguised as something rare and valuable. In a political economy based on credit-capitalism where the government issues debt in order to raise capital for financing vote getting programs and wars, Democratic leadership should have as its primary focus strengthening the thread of the nation-state via its capital allocation (banking) system. Continue reading Counsel on political leadership. The Democrats need a whole new slate.