25 years?! Why not life?!

It’s 2006, and people still think our government isn’t racist! On Thursday, July 13, 2006, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which opened booths to millionz of Black people, was “granted” a 25-year extension from Congress as Republicans sought to improve their standing with us so-called “minorities” before elections this fall.

The Senate turned in a 98-0 vote count the week of July 17th after the previous week’s House passage vote count of 390-33. Can you believe there were actually 33 votes that didn’t want to abolish Blacks' right to vote?! 

The next step is for good-old George W to sign the legislation, which, by the way, was not a coincidence that he finally showz up to speak at the NAACP's national conference after refusing to the invitation for five yearz in a row.  President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law in August 1965 after efforts to fully integrate Blacks produced violent reactions in Southern states.

The law declared a nationwide prohibition against voting discrimination based on race, eliminated poll taxes and literacy tests, and other election devices that were used for decades to keep us from voting.

The 33 Republicans who voted against the Act wanted to shorten the renewal from 25 yearz to 10!! But that doesn't make the Democrats our boys either!

We should all be askin’ ourselves, “25 yearz?! Why not LIFE!”  I mean, ask yourselves, Why are Black people the only group of people who have to ask if we can partake in voting every 25 yearz?!!? It’s for our “so-called” leaders to allow this shit to happen! Why aren’t they informing the people of this fact?! Oh, forgot, they’re all part of the game – they’re not our leaders, the system appointed them as our leaders for us!

This Act should be seen as an insult to us – especially for those call themselves “American” because the truth is we’re “leased” Americans!

The fact the government makes this a part of legislation serves as an even greater diss because it means come 2032, they will convene again and decide if Blacks should be “granted” the permission to partake in voting again!! I mean, what’s the big deal with trashin’ the 25-year contract and make it for life?! It’s clear to me they still see us as 2nd class and thus not worthy of full citizenship.

We are the only people who have to go through this shit despite the large percentage of us that make up this country’s armed forces as well as having the largest spending power – well over $761 billion ($1 trillion by 2010)!

Ask yourself, what do you think woulda happened had they not passed the Act? Take a sec and marinate on that vision… I think all hell woulda broke loose! In fact, it actually woulda finally freed us because we woulda finally wised-up! We’d finally see how they truly see us; we’d ultimately give the ax to the co-conspirators of our ignorance – our so-called negro leaders – and develop new leadership, creating our own system!

I guess they aren’t fully ready for war yet! But that don’t mean we shouldn’t be gettin’ prepared. It shoudn’t take another 25 years to go by ‘til we speak on this again, ‘cause come 2032, they might be ready to deal with the repercussionz of abolishing the Act.

So instead of celebrating their permission to play in these reindeer games for the next 25 seasons, we should be organizing our own game plan which would include a Nationality that would give us both dual citizenship and exemption from the 2nd class rights they instilled on us post-1865. There needs to be more than speeches, marches, protests and boycotts, there needs to be a strategic 5-10 year plan devised or revised to develop our own system – a system that unites all melanated Afrikans in the diaspora!