US presidential elections

“No confidence in the U.S. government––Democratic or Republican, male or female, black or white! All power to the people! Black Power to the black community!” and “The people must win power with our own hands: Neither Jesse Jackson nor the Democratic party can bring power to the black working class” - from The Burning Spear newspaper, August 1984.

The words ring true today as they did in 1984 when this statement was made. Africans have no confidence in the U.S. government and only vote out of fear of the “white man’s Republican party” and the notion that Africans died and sacrificed for the right to vote with the perception that there are no other alternatives.

Journalist and author, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill gave an interview to Power 105.1 FM’s The Breakfast Club on August 3, 2016 to discuss current events, most notably the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Hill echoed what the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) has repeatedly stated during the entire election season when he said that Democrats are using the possibility of Donald Trump winning the election as a way to scare black voters into voting for Hillary Clinton. 

A group of black mothers who are known because of the murders of their children at the hands of police and white vigilantes have been branded “The Mothers of the Movement” by the Hillary Clinton campaign. 

The group, which includes the mothers of Michael Brown Jr., Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Jordan Davis, debuted their unnatural brand through Clinton’s campaign, as a strategy to help Clinton win the black vote.

Washington D.C.––U.S. president Barack Hussein Obama offered up criticisms of Republican candidate Donald Trump and declared him “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve as U.S. president during a White House press conference on August 2, 2016.

 

U.S president Barack Hussein Obama endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a web video that Clinton released on her YouTube channel on Thursday, June 9, 2016.

He said in the video “I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office.”

U.S president Obama says this only eight years after saying Clinton wasn't right for the position. An Obama campaign ad from 2008 says, “She'll say anything and change nothing.”

 

Republican candidate Donald Trump is set to be the Republican Party nominee for U.S. president. The candidacy is historic and unexpected for many.

As of May 31, 2016, Donald Trump has won enough state primary elections to secure the 1239 delegates needed to win the nomination if the delegates from those states vote according to the wishes of the people in the state during the Republican National Convention.

A crowd of over 28,000 mostly-white people gathered in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for a Bernie Sanders campaign rally on April 17, 2016. Despite this massive turnout, Sanders lost to his fellow democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, in the New York primary which took place on April 19, 2016.

The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice Peace and Reparations (BIBC) held its annual national conference on April 9th, 2016 in the center of the African community of Harlem, NY. The day-long conference held at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, was themed, “The 2016 Elections and the Struggle for Self-determination.”

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has commented, during his campaign, in support of the illigitimate State of Israel.