(Washington Informer) — Editor’s Note: In a press release this morning, the Freedom Party announced that 45,000 people have signed petitions to place the party on the New York State ballot this fall—or three times the required number of valid signatures.
In the past two years, an increasing number of African Americans have begun to question whether the election of the the first black president, Barack Obama, has done anything to remedy the abject condition of many within the African-American community.
Expressions of discontent have emerged from prominent members of the African-American family, as longtime civil rights activist Dorothy Wright Tillman, as well as Glen Ford, editor of Black Agenda Report, have openly charged that the Obama Administration has been neglectful in substantively addressing the dire economic state of Black America.
