(NNPA)—Black Americans and others who want to contribute to the future progressive transformation of our nation and world have an upcoming strategic opportunity to make the critical difference. In less than 60 days, the November elections will be held. Once again, the United States is at a pivotal political moment in history.
The outcome of the 2014 national elections will not only set the stage for the 2016 presidential campaign, it will also determine how the last two years of the Obama administration will play out. Yet, for the majority of 45 million Black Americans who want improvement in our overall quality of life, we must reassert our interests in record numbers at the ballot box.
No doubt there is a reality and spirit of discontentment in the Black community about the many socioeconomic disparities, incidents of fatal racial attacks, increasing disproportionate mass incarceration, and the systematic efforts of right wing groups to suppress the Black vote. But this is not the time to become so frustrated with the politics of racial division and oppression that that we feel alienated and cynical. This is not a time for hopelessness.
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