ainly power that is why I am convinced that the ideas of Booker T. Washington will promote economic wealth in the Black communities.In the 21st century Black American have found themselves with no political voices to help gain the “natural freedoms” that Emancipation Proclamation and the Constitution has entitled for us. This is what a lot of Black American believes, but now Black American are more accessible to these rights then they were in the past. Black Americans now have power that they could fully use in the past, this power is granted in all 50 states, this power is the power of voting. Black Americans always have complaints about the political on goings and whose in office but very few of them utilize their voting powers. Political parties are the one who have authority over legislative laws and governing, but it is the people who put representatives in positions in certain political parties. In the essay “Measuring Black Political Power”, Chuck Stone clarifies, “ The power of political parties is measured by the degree of sovereignty they exercise over the heads of government… The measurement of political power of an ethnic group, an economic class or another interest group is far more difficult (254). I believe that Stone is state that it is more difficult because again their voice is not being heard. For instance, Black Americans always tend to protest when anything goes wrong socially in the community but they still don’t not take time to vote not realizing that in the long run it end the discrimination and the injustice. Some Blacks feel though vote is not going to make the difference because they feel that the power will still be in the man of the “man”. This attitude is ignorant, because they would rather get use by the system and not use it. Black American want to put their faith in civil- rights leaders, and they are not aware that civil- rights leade...
