By Richard Bailey “The party of slavery hasn’t changed” is a likely rallying cry in the upcoming Fall elections. Independent Black activists are leading a shift in opinion. The message: Black lives really do matter and systemic racism is real. They blame Democrats. On June 3, 2020, Mohammed Ali, Jr. son of activist and fighter, Mohammed Ali, applied “racist” to Black Lives Matters. Ali is representative of independent Black activists who are rethinking their political loyalties. Ali claimed his father would have been sickened by the violence and looting after the Death of George Floyd. “Democrats,” he said, “don’t give a s–t about anybody.” Ali joins other disenchanted African-Americans. In the wake of Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, a Party stronghold for a generation, Democrats face the loss of the loyalty of Black voters. They are shifting to damage control. After announcing his independent run for the presidency, rapper and activist Kanye West blasted Democrats. “That is a form of racism and white supremacy and white control to say that all Black people need to be Democrat . . . I was threatened as a Black man into the Democratic party. And that’s what the Democrats are doing, emotionally, to my…
