If you didn't know had to delete a number of Facebook posts on Thursday because the vile responses to those three posts from a few folks who took offense to my posts related to the Democratic choice for Vice President of the United States. I felt affecting the direction of those responses were possibly going limit my ability to expand and promote my Facebook Live program The Blackman Read Aloud Hour Project. I was literally shocked at the level of vitriol that was being delivered by some people whom I honestly respected. I was being accused of promoting slander, delivering messages of hate, being a lackey for Trump, and guiding the entire community of African Americans to a river of eternal despair. First off, I want to thank those who responded to those posts in a meaningfully constructive strategic way. To those it kept it 100 I salute you. To those who felt it necessary to flood my page with unfounded accusations about me personally. I can only say if you did your research you could possibly comprehend my position. But, do many people don't do research they respond literally on absolute emotion.

All this negativity because I voiced a few opinions about a certain candidate. It’s like for those slung those vitriols they have this crazy realization that you are either with us or anything you do for the benefit of our communities is worthless. Well, I am not going to allow my opinions to be silenced with individuals who are willing to destroy my project for their benefit or their ignorance. I care more about addressing the issues that are omnipresent in our communities related to illiteracy and the lack of knowledge about the black historical experience right now. I will protect that reading project with all my energy and power. You can take your slights and admonitions towards me for stating my opinions and move on. I am not going to stop using my learned knowledge to educate and make those unaware, aware. Whom, I support is not based on the personality of that individual, or whether that person is a member of a group or sex. I will base my support on policy and the receptiveness of those policies on the community residents I’m primarily concerned with.

Blind Allegiance has gotten us where in 60 years of loyal Democratic Party support? Our ancestors made choices when choices had to be made shifting party loyalty when they deemed it necessary. We must allow our communities to have the same response today because this boogeyman syndrome is way out of kilter. You had better vote for Biden if you are truly black, Trump is the most racist President ever insults the agony and misery our ancestors faced watching their love ones hanging from trees after being burned alive and then hung while the occupants of those historical White House’s casually disregarded the crimes, or worse offering shelter to those who lynched and terrorized. Now we have both parties disregarding or ignoring our case for reparations. why? Just because they can because they know we will not tip over the political apple cart. You see never have in 60 fully went full bore after the Democratic Party. Well, in 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party tried but where silenced by a sitting President and his team cart controllers. So, please don’t expect blind allegiance when blind allegiance hasn’t served us a full meal at any table. Our votes are sacred but we as a community haven’t valued our votes because we gave them away willingly without payment expecting in return. There shouldn’t be ghettos in America, starving children in America, undereducated children in America, soiled tainted water in America, people without healthcare in America, homeless or evicted people in America but there are and it didn’t start with Trump. The majority of people who are affected by these wrongs are in our communities not theirs. Malcolm X demanded we value our votes as sacred as did Martin King but we haven’t and we don’t. So because of that we end up choosing between Trump/Pence and Biden/Harris with the difference between them in minute. Hell, in 2000 Trump donated $6000.00 to Harris’s campaign to be California’s Attorney General and we or we should know how that turned out. If you want blind allegiance than you disservice Monroe Trotter, Marcus Garvey, DuBois, Douglass, Paul Robeson, Ella Baker, Ida Wells, Fannie Hamer, Stokely Carmichael because each one of those would’ve been upfront and discussing both parties wrongs and demanding them to do right by us. Now I am not proposing to go for anyone in particular or no party specifically. I am only asking that we value our individual votes collectively and get something tangible from those votes because blind allegiance hasn’t gotten us anywhere.