Summary of After the 2016 Election Dialogue/Discussion

Summary of After the 2016 Election Dialogue/Discussion

Sacramento Black Agenda

Items of Importance identified at the November 30^th 2016 Meeting

1. Working for greater unity while recognizing our differences - being present for each other, this idea was also represented by the statement, unity without uniformity.

2. Recognizing the importance of young people in promoting social change and social movements (Black Lives Matter), for example.

3. Pursuing short-term, mid-term, and long-term agendas.

4. Utilizing existing organizations as a means of bringing us together collectively.

5. Developing a political agenda to achieve power, locally and nationally. Our demands should be a reflection of our times, not the past.

6. We need to create our own social safety nets, providing for ourselves, what the government will not.

7. Education, Economics, and Politics are the bases for power. Economic power is central for improving our collective well-being, it is essential to increase our economic power.

8. We need to identify the specific issues which will constitute our agenda.

9. It is absolutely necessary that we mobilize our population.

10. We should all support Black people throughout the city, not restrict ourselves physically, or engagement to separate pockets of Black residency and presence.

11. This effort must be based on collective, not personal, agendas.

12. Results matter. Our efforts should be oriented toward producing results, that means we should share a common summation of where we are, how we got here, and how to proceed for the future.

13. Our unity should be based on shared principles which we identify specifically as the means which identify our goals and our means for achieving them.

14. We need to ally with others who can help us achieve our goals when it is appropriate to do so, and when such alliances are in conformity with our own shared principles.

15. We need to share information with each other, inform each other, as through Saturday Schools, which do not need to be limited to children.

16. It is time for us to do something for us.

17. We need to get into the ghetto. We need to be there to destroy gangs. They serve no positive purpose.

18. This effort must be about concrete collective achievement.

19. We need to identify what 501 C (3)s are doing, and how we can work with them.

20. We must get young people involved in what we are doing (see #2 above).

21. We have to recognize and incorporate into our efforts the importance of technology.

22. We need to focus our efforts on specific conditions. One is Black child deaths.

23. We need to proceed by beginning with small, strategic, effective steps.

24. Our self-information (see # 15 above) should include specific topics which will be effected by the political tsunami which has just taken place.

25. Our focus on Black economics should include buying property collectively, an activity which will not only increase our collective wealth, but will also enable us to hire each other.

26. We should work on providing opportunities for people who are released from incarceration to find employment and enable them to lead fulfilling lives.

27. We should maintain liaisons with elected officials, and we should receive periodic, regular legislative updates from them.

28. We need to achieve the 90% marker, a minimum of 90% of Black people vote in elections.

29. Each of us should bring more people to the next meeting.

SABC  hosted monthly meetings since November 2016 building and renewing a call for Sacramento Black Agenda for 2017 and 2018.