The Results Are In!

Everyone knew that if Govenor Bob Riley wins then Troy King would win with the exception of Lucy Baxley and John Tyson. The reason: The Democratic Party failed to address issues near and dear to African-Americans such as allabama's Prison Industrial Complex. African-Americans in Alabama will only turn out to vote if leaders show us leadership. I say this because when John Tyson came to Alabama A&M University to discuss his plan of putting young children on some type of listing was ridiculous. We African-Americans are tired of being listed! Your political plan was ridiculous to the core and the Democratic Party should be ashamed of themselves. We're worried about the Alabama Prison Industrial Complex using African-Americans to fuel itself! We're worried about our Voting Rights being restored once we've paid our debt to society. This hypocrisy of saying we're in the bible belt should stop. It seems there's no forgiveness in this state! We're concerned about education getting cutbacks and cancellations while we're paying our debt to society. What hope do we have if we face criminal background checks which suggest to employers to deny us a second chance that forces us to work for little more than slave pay? We could benefit from learning a skill or achieving a degree and lessening our chances of returning to a life of crime. All these things and more explains why so many African-American democrats weren't excited by our candidate. It was more of the same except the nominee wanted to get children at a younger age into the Alabama Prison Industrial Complex. Democrats have got to stop being the wuzzie party and tackle these real issues no matter if it has race as a basis and then they can motivate the African-American community. If they fail to do this then the discussion should be for African-Americans to form their own third party based on our (democratic party) base: the grassroots!

Lucy Baxley lost for some of the same reasons that the candidate for Attorney General. She should've talked directly to African-Americans in Alabama and tolded them that she felt their pain about minimum wage and the racist constitution we have. Does she think that we don't discuss this from grassroots on up? You can't expect African-Americans to show up in big numbers for a candidate who will not have the courage to speak out about our most important issues.

Congratulations to Parker Griffith he's shown that we can elect new leadership for Alabama. He will be one of those leaders that will begin to heal some of our political wounds inflicted on us.