How To Empower The Black Community And Address Social Justice Issues?

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(ThyBlackMan.com) The black community is on a mission to stop racism against them. And we all should raise our voices with them. As of now, the empowerment of the black community is imperative because they are continuously facing many challenges like racism and many social injustices in America and Europe. They are not getting proper rights in society. They have no social support networks and economic security.

The insights shared by Human Rights Watch report numerous incidents that have been identified where black people have to suffer from unimaginable pain and disgrace. OF those incidents some were highlighted by DoSomething.org.
In NYC in 2018, 88% of police stops involved Black and Latinx people. Among those, 70% were innocent.
A US survey found that 15.8% of students experienced race-based bullying or harassment.
Between 2013 and 2017, white patients in the US received better healthcare than approximately 34% of Hispanic patients, 40% of Black patients, and 40% of Native American patients.
Black women face 3 to 4 times higher risk of pregnancy-related death compared to white women, even with similar income and education levels.

In light of these incidents, it has become critical to empower them by promoting justice reforms, freedom, and equality in quality education, mentorship initiatives, and healthcare equity.

To do all this mutual support is the key. Without collective efforts, social justice issues of the black community cannot be resolved. A strong commitment from the government and societies is required to create a powerful and positive change for them.

Ways To Empower The Black Community And Address Social Justice Issues

For centuries, black communities have faced discrimination, social injustice, and reconciliation. Empowerment of the Black community is crucial for their rights, equity, and economic stability.

Like other individuals, they also deserve to live with all human rights, access to opportunities, and social justice. They are also talented and creative people who can contribute to the economic growth and progress of society.

By listening to the voices of black individuals, societies become more diverse and vibrant. These diverse societies encourage innovation, broad vision, and creativity. It is ethical to empower them. A strong and empowered black community is crucial for community well-being.

Let’s discuss some vital ways to empower and support the black community.

1. Educational empowerment among the black community

Lack of educational facilities is a major issue among black individuals. There are no proper schools, academic institutes, and training programs for them to enhance their learning and mental capabilities. It’s compulsory to provide equitable funds to educational institutes for the black community where they can write my coursework for me with freedom of thought and expression.

Education creates several opportunities like higher education, leadership roles, and many employment opportunities. Education helps them to break the cycle of poverty. It’s very crucial for black individuals to get higher education and to take part in politics. In this way, they learn or find the root cause of their injustice and raise their issues.

2. Boost community engagement

Boosting community engagement is a very crucial step to empower the Black community in Europe and America for mutual support and collective action. Community organizing is very essential as it provides paths for community members to come together, share ideas, and uplift their community.

Engage your young generation in community management to show continuity of community activism, bonding, and leadership. Use digital media or social media platforms for community management.

3. Policy Reforms

Policy Reform is a very significant way to empower and support the black community in Europe and America. Several policy reforms are necessary including criminal justice reform, policy accountability measures, Economic Development Initiatives, voting rights safety, reasonable housing projects, and Anti-Discrimination Legislation.

They must Implement the policies that address racial disparities in policing and sentencing. Also the Implementation of policies to promote wealth creation in Black communities and initiatives to address barriers to entrepreneurship.

4. Address Healthcare Disparities

To empower the black community addressing health care disparities is extremely important. So, they should expand access to reasonable healthcare and provide all the facilities. Make policies to increase funding for community health centers and all general hospitals.

They don’t even get proper food and most black individual children are malnourished. All the health care facilities must be equally provided to the black community people.so, addressing healthcare disparities is very significant to empower them.

5. Build and Support Social Networks

In empowering the black individual it’s vital to build and support social networks. The black community must build good connections with politicians, law members, and also with senior citizens, and experts to use them in need. These connections are important for their representation in the upper layer of the country.

When some black individuals make strong social networks the other should encourage them instead of breaking their morale. So, always build and support social networks.

6. Mentoring initiatives

To strengthen the black individual proper mentorship programs should be established. In this mentorship initiative, black experts and professors should be selected to support and guide them. Black mentors must be trained by experts to educate and facilitate the black youth. In this way, the confidence level of all black girls and boys increases. Their competence and energy levels are boosted due to their professional black mentors. Mentors who have shared similar backgrounds must offer proper guidance and validation.

7. Acknowledge and heed the voices of the Black community

Acknowledging and heeding the voices of the Black community is specific for empowering the Black community. It’s important to listen to the concerns, problems, and experiences of black individuals. Focus and amplify Black voices and stories by diverse representation in leadership positions and schemes. Manage collaborative partnerships with Black-led organizations, and black community representatives. Must educate them on skill building and self-awareness which help them to stand strongly.

8. Increase opportunities for employment

The most important step is to increase the employment chances for the Black community in Europe and America. Because the maximum graduated individuals in this community are jobless. The unemployment ratio of black people is lower than white people.

Business opportunities and entrepreneurship should be promoted among young black boys and girls in America and Europe. Must create special vacancies for the black community to empower them in Europe and America.

How To Empower The Black Community And Address Social Justice Issues?

Conclusion

The empowerment of the black community is as important as white people communities. They deserve all social rights, the best education, proper healthcare access, and political representation. They are talented people who can thrive in the economy and other fields.By resolving social justice issues, inequity, promoting excellence in academics, and discrimination black individuals can grow fast in society like other white individuals.

They can thrive in every phase of life through education and awareness. This empowerment strategy requires collaborative support and efforts from the governments of America and Europe to promote equity, social justice, policy reforms, community engagement, career development, and political representation.

Staff Writer; Harry Parker

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Oscar Gowie says:

April 25, 2024 at 3:52 pm

Attn: Staff Writer – Harry parker:

I am Oscar Gowie.

I read your article ‘How to Empower Black Communities and Address Social Justice Issues.’
I agree with the concept of your article. However, I have some ideas that I think are necessary to incorporate in an article with an objective like yours, to materialize said objectives. I will now randomly list them.

First, The Black Community, we really do not have Black communities. Black people are scattered throughout the country, and although we may be a majority in a few localities, they are not communities in the sense of the administration and governing of said communities. Nor do we have common ownership of the said communities in terms of land, labor, and capital endowment. And we do not manifest the feeling of fellowship with each other, in terms of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. But I do concur, we need to address the interests of the underserved (be they Black, White, Blue, Brown, Yellow, or whatever).

Next is the ‘Educational Empowerment among the Black Community.’ This, my dear good Sir/Madam, is the central and most important drawback to our advancement. Want proof, just look at all educated Black people, they have progressed out of the abject poverty which we frequently refer to as the Black Community, as if Black people have inherent rights to poverty.

You are on the right track with this one. However, for it to be successful, you need to incorporate the following thought, without which, we will not make any headway in this direction. Here it is:

While Black people are the major recipients of prejudice and discrimination, and while we are good at highlighting the actions, attitudes, and behaviors that must be changed by those who are the purveyors of prejudice, hate and discrimination, we fall dismally short in highlighting the changes that we are to make to assimilate and function in a less hateful society. The sad thing is, without this change, we will not achieve significant progress that it will make a positive impact on us Black people.
I am referring to our need for a Black Cultural Renaissance. We need to stop, reassess, change direction, and start again. This time with a new collective perspective and vision. We need the educational opportunities you mentioned in your article, and more.

Black people need to have a yearning for education. We should practice this wanting until it becomes our culture and handed down from generation to generation. Too many of our young ones are just aimlessly wandering about the malls, and finally in violation of the criminal code. We see them on news casts every evening either running away from the police or being shot, or mauling another person, in an act of burglary. Every time I see this, part of me succumbs in shame, and I must look inward for the remedy. Every time I look, I see a failure on our part. Failure to have proper direction in their formative years. Failure in parenting. There are some things which we cannot go on forever blaming on Slavery/discrimination. We must take the initiative to vision where we are, where we want to be, and whether we are going there, and what corrections we must take. Personal ambition, self-ambition, and collective ambition are not within our realm of thinking. We need to bring this into focus. No educational program will be successful without this concept.

In short, we need to look at ourselves through the eyes of a third person. We need to pay attention and adjust ourselves accordingly.
Glorious it will be when each Black parent is not only educated but wants her/his child to be even more educated than he/she is.
This is how we beat poverty/generational poverty. Government can only set the stage for equal treatment without impediment. We must want to be something. Those of us who have overcome this handicap are testament to its authenticity.

Your literary prowess and your access to the masses can serve to bring this concept home to Black people. Forget African American – we are Americans. Forget slavery, we are going to make sure through education, Arts, science, and technology, that we will never again be enslaved. Do not forget that it was our African counterpart that sold us in the first place. Do not give them or anyone the chance to do it again. Our children will listen to us if we speak to them in such a manner that they realize we have their best interest at heart. This is true for all aspects of human endeavor, from staying out of drugs to becoming a neurosurgeon, an astrophysicist, a writer, a teacher, a plumber, an auto mechanic, or just doing nothing and hang about. We have been having a lot of the ‘just do nothing,’ more than our fair share. Even though community colleges offer a tremendous amount of career programs, our Black youths take no advantage. They claim that the government does nothing for them. They will give a million and one reasons why they cannot attend these career programs, but at the same time they find time to traverse the county in the effort of doing nothing.

Instead of the silly reparation argument that is being flaunted by some our our so-called leaders, I would be happy to see us asking for upgrading the resources of our Historically Black Colleges, bringing up to scratch with the top universities of the day, and enlarging their physical capacities and amenities, as well as upgrading their faculty and curriculum, and offering top notch career programs.

Yes, we Black people are not taking advantage of the educational opportunities available to us; we need to start doing so, with deliberate speed.
Yes, we Black people need to adjust our own view towards racism. We need to respect ourselves and everyone around us.

We need to realize that we must see our future generations thriving in everything we think, say, and do. And this is just the beginning. This then, will put us on the threshold to having a Black Community.

And, I have heard enough about bloody slavery and enslavement. I think that we have respectfully grown up and we should regulate such activity to the historians while we concentrate on being the inventors of the item that will obsolete the iPhone, take us to space and back safely and securely without contaminating the environment, find a cure for sickle cell, find the remedy that will eradicate the common cold and all its derivatives, including covid. Make Nuro-surgery a common and safe non-precarious act. And many more ideals in arts/fine arts, medical arts, music, and sciences.

Are Black People ready, or do we just want to continue the way we are going, and ending up exactly where we are?

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Eugenio says:

April 22, 2024 at 7:03 pm

Actually, it will never happen as long as the black community continues to integrate and socialize with the Caucasian communities and other racial groups who do not have the best interest of black America. Yes, it is true that there is a disparity in the healthcare system when it comes to the treatment of black people compare to a better quality care receive by the Caucasian community; for which the only reason for this disparity is discrimination, racism, prejudice towards all African Americans.

The only solution for African Americans is complete and total separation from Racist white men and white women who are infected with the disease of madness, insanity, insecurity, fear and the shortcoming of having small private parts for which they black people for their short falls. Black men and Black women should only allowed black doctors and nurses to attend to their medical needs, We must also send all our children to black owned private schools and HBCU’S to protect them from the onslaught of discrimination at the hands of white people, Asians, Hispanics and the untouchables.

We are wasting our time hoping and praying to the white man’s religion known as the Religion of the Slaves aka Christianity, which was use a a tool to control African slaves in the past and it still continues to control and make docile our entire african American community. The black men and black women of America pray to a white God and a white bible to solve their problems; while, the white men and white women prayed to their banks, businesses and to other white people to remain at the top and to continue putting their boot on our neck, so we could never rise above that of an entertainer singing rap music of death and destruction or playing basketball and football to make the white men rich and successful.

in Conclusion, African Americans must separated and organized into a community that is control by us for us. We need to invest in our community and our safety by having our own black police department, black fire department, black hospital, black banks, black passenger airlines, black distribution centers, black stock market, and every thing that we have and owned should be control by black people for black people. it is time for black people to wake up and realize that there will never be equality in America as long as their are racist white men and white women been envious and jealous of a strong black men and black women.

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Pelvo White, Jr. says:

April 22, 2024 at 10:49 am

We must stop talking about the non-existent ” “black community.” “There are only American communities organized by legislated organizing documents. The road to empowerment starts with our understandings of ” equal justice under the law “, not white supremacy, and white privilege. We must also think about our safety as a race of beings and disperse mentally, physically, and culturally out into the the greater number of human beings globally. Dispersion will help insure our safety, and well being.

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