Elections

ST. LOUIS—At one time, the city of St. Louis had a population of almost a million people. White people fled the city by the hundreds of thousands when the hint of African people fighting for power was in the air.

In recent months, bourgeois media has been dominated by stories of powerful capitalists accused of sexual assault.

In recent months, bourgeois media has been dominated by stories of powerful capitalists accused of sexual assault.

The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations held its annual march on the White House and national conference in Washington, D.C. under the theme, “The Ballot and the Bullet: Elections, War, and Peace in the Era of Donald Trump” on November 4-5.

Uhuru Kenyatta won 54 percent of votes against 45 percent for Raila Odinga on 8 August 2017. 1.4 million votes separated the two contenders.

This coming December the African National Congress (ANC), the Party that facilitated the smooth process of transferring power from white settlers to the indigenous Africans in Occupied Azania (South Africa) in 1994, will be holding their elective conference for key political positions such as the president, deputies and so on.

Typically in bourgeois elections when people hear the word "forum" or "debate," it's safe to assume that it will be a snooze fest.

No issue is a greater taboo in the bourgeois electoral arena than the demand for reparations to the African community.

A politician’s position on reparations to the black community is the litmus test they must pass to be approved by the ruling elite as legitimate contenders in a bourgeois electoral contest.

The narrative was permanently transformed by the demand that reparations and economic development to the African community be the centerfold of city policy, along with black community control of police and an end to gentrification that pushes the African working class out of the city in the face of massive real estate speculation on the part of big money developers.

It was a brilliant strategy to have African People’s Solidarity Committee member and chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement Jesse Nevel run for mayor as a white man galvanizing other white people around reparations as the central demand.