I’d like to initiate dialogue for an “Institutionalized Action” plan where Black folks nationwide collaborate on utilization of legal avenues, voting mobilization, financial activism and boycotting, and patronage.  I mean a written physical plan, not just conversation, that can be circulated as a docotrine that can be adopted nationwide.  An initiative to publish that identifies an upgrade to the mindset of protestors to collaborate on a national push back against social injustice and murder of Black citizens.  I realize that no one would initially take this effort seriously, since mostly armchair rhetoric has preceded it over the last 20 years, but we have the means at our disposal in 2014 to take this plan off the drawing board and implement it.  This message can be taken nationwide so that efforts like boycotts and consolidation of Black dollars are coordinated action and not just likable Facebook posts.  It can be done.  It should be done.

 

If readers are willing to chime in on a blog and add or expand on the concept, we can start a trend that becomes a national dialogue to create the blueprint.  The goal would be:

 

• Create a network of advocate attorneys nationwide with criminal or political background to help articulate a platform of activism (unlawful voter suppression, voting fraud, local law and policy writing/voting) and to call local law enforcement on their BS with protestors’ unlawful arrests, handling, or processing.

• Create a network for voting mobilization that includes a few important facets.  Voter registration and access to polls.  Access for obtaining state issued ID, driver’s licenses or alternate identification acceptable for voting. 

• Create a politicatl research team to populate a database of local politicians; i.e. congressmen, senators, governors, mayors, police chiefs, police captains, sheriffs, etc. in hotspots for misbehavior.  The database will keep a record of those that need to be voted out for their actions or inaction.

• Create a volunteer IT team that can create and maintain a national database of local elected officials to track and consider at election time.  This database would be populated with officials who participate in cover ups or otherwise derailing the pursuit of justice against police and politicians’ misdeeds.  For instance, in the incident regarding Ferguson, MO, Jeff Roorda or Brian Fletcher.  Make this database open to the public and circulate information from it at election time to ensure we go to the polls fully informed.

• Create local mobilization teams for protests, to participate in the voting mobilization listed above or for boycott or patronage information.

• Create a marketing and media team for print and visual media to launch a “Change The Conversation” campaign for positive imagery and messages in and outside of the Black community.  The same way you see Church of the Latter Day Saints ad campaigns or the Ad Council or even Got Milk campaigns.

 

This is just an overview of some of my own personal thoughts on the subject.  I think a collaborative response on this level will let politicians know that we hold them accountable at all times, but especially in the wake of senseless killings and excessive force. 

 

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this, for or against what I’m saying.  Don't just agree with me, join the blog conversation or help to kick it off.  Please no rants, just constructive dialogue.

 

Love to all..

 

 

 

 

V. Ray

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