What We Blacks Need To Do (PART 2)

During my 34 years teaching vocational education (shop), I taught my students a new word every week. Our parents need to learn with their children to make “good” education happen in their HOME. This lesson will help both learn a new word each week during the 52 weeks in 2022. I will post one every Sunday on my Facebook page (James Hankins).

The words for today are REGISTER, BILLION AND TRILLION. We are now in the election season. We must learn how to play the political game or continue to be played. You must choose one of the three major political parties, Democrat, Republican or Independent in order to register in most states. REGISTER means signing up to vote. You can get all the information you need from your local board of election, NAACP, Church or Black newspaper. To see which political party you want to join and work with take a good look at who they represent and who their leader is.

The Republican Party leader is twice impeached Ex -President Donald Trump. His biggest accomplishment was the 1.7 trillion-dollar tax cut for the very rich. A BILLION dollars is 1,000 million and a TRILLION dollars is 1,000 billion. TRUMP is responsible for the insurrection on January 6, 2022 where 5 died,138 police officers were assaulted and 733 TRUMP supporters were charged with rioting. Facebook and Twitter banned him for telling the “BIG LIE” about his lost election. The leader of the Democratic Party is President Joe Biden. His biggest accomplishment to date is ending the war in Afghanistan which was costing us 300 million dollars a day. We blacks make up around 13% of the U.S. population, but over 43% were fighting in the Afghanistan 20-year war. He also pushed Congress to pass the 1.9 trillion-dollar American Recuse Plan that gave $250 and $300 per month for children up to 17 years old. This took over half of the children out of poverty and a chance to experience some of the American dream. His plan also gave over 2.7 billion dollars to historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). His campaign promise was to select a black LADY to serve as his vice-president and nominated a black LADY to serve on the Supreme Court. He kept his promise with Kamala Harris and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Are you and all over 17 in your HOME registered to vote?

Proverbs 13:20 “He that walks with wise men will be wise. But a companion of fools will suffer harm.”

James Jerome Hankins-Retired vocational education (shop) teacher—past president of the New Hanover County NAACP-Real Estate Broker—raconteur-writer and author.