The Most Important Questions: Why “Empowering Our Community” Isn’t Just a Guide—It’s a Weapon
In a time when our people are expected to vote like clockwork but rarely receive the dividends of democracy, The SOLUTION has released a document that dares to ask the questions others are too timid—or too complicit—to raise.
Empowering Our Community: A Guide to Elected Positions https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rXnmwRDSK63a4WMe8J7v1DSLVRbXA8OI/view is not just an eBook. It is a political mirror, a civic curriculum, and a strategic weapon all in one. It does what too few in our community—and even fewer of our so-called leaders—have done: It tells us who has the power, what that power is, and how we demand accountability from it.
This isn’t just education. This is empowerment. This is the ballot and the bullet wrapped in one truth-telling package.
Why This Document Matters
James Baldwin once said, “Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” And for too long, the Black community has been expected to participate in a political system without being given the instruction manual. This guide is that manual—and a declaration of war on the systemic silence that keeps us docile, confused, and underrepresented.
We are handed flyers and slogans every election cycle. We are told to “vote like our lives depend on it.” But when we ask why our neighborhoods look the same after the ballots are counted, when we wonder why justice doesn’t knock on our doors but raids our homes, we are told to wait. To trust. To hope.
No more.
This guide puts names to titles. It draws a straight line from the school board to the prosecutor’s office, from the county executive to the governor’s mansion. And more importantly, it gives you the questions to ask—the kind of questions that make politicians stammer and forces their handlers to scramble.
How to Use This Guide
Don’t just read this document—wield it.
1. Print it. Share it. Quote it. Make it required reading in your barbershop, church basement, sorority meeting, or community town hall.
2. Use the questions verbatim. At public forums, on campaign stops, in emails to elected officials—use the precise language in this guide to make clear you know what the job is and what the job should be doing for our people.
3. Train your block. Host “Power Circles” where community members take turns role-playing as candidates and voters. Use the questions to test their readiness—and their answers to test your trust.
4. Demand receipts. If an official claims they’ve “already addressed” your concern, ask for proof. What program? What funding? What impact?
5. Show up together. One voice can be ignored. A choir of voters with this document in hand becomes a thunder that cannot be dismissed.
A New Standard of Accountability
Dr. King taught us that power concedes nothing without demand. This document teaches us how to demand—not with noise but with precision.
Malcolm warned us of politicians who come for our votes and leave us with poverty. This guide teaches us how to turn the question on them: “What have you done—specifically—for us?”
And Baldwin made it clear: to be a Black citizen is to live in a state of perpetual contradiction. This guide is our rebuttal. It says we will no longer exist in contradiction—we will live in confrontation. A confrontation with complacency. With political theater. With systems built to exclude.
Final Word
This guide is not the end of the work. It is the beginning of new work done with new eyes.
Use it as your sword in city council meetings. Use it as your shield in school board interviews. Use it as your compass in campaign season.
We are not powerless. We are powerful—and now, we are prepared.
Click here to read the full guide. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rXnmwRDSK63a4WMe8J7v1DSLVRbXA8OI/view
Let the questions ring. Let the silence tremble. Let the accountability begin.
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