Black Dollars, Black Voices: Demand Accountability for Our Communities
U.S. Elected Officials
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Our Tax Dollars Should Work for Us, Not Against Us
Black communities contribute every day — through our labor, our creativity, and our taxes. But instead of strengthening our neighborhoods, too much of our money is funneled into systems that harm us. It’s time for Elected Officials to be held accountable and invest in our future, not our oppression.
Why this matters
We pay our fair share but instead of seeing strong schools, accessible healthcare, and safe neighborhoods, we’re watching our tax dollars fund systems of harm. From over-policing to shuttered hospitals, we are forced to bankroll our own oppression while the ultra-wealthy and corporations dodge accountability.
This isn’t just about budgets, it’s about justice. Every dollar spent on militarizing our streets is a dollar stolen from classrooms, clinics, and community programs that actually keep us safe. Elected Officials must stop allowing our resources to be diverted into oppressive systems and start investing in the people who make this country work.
Black voters and allies are demanding accountability. Our money should build opportunity, not barriers.
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Every time we get a paycheck, a chunk of it is supposed to go toward strengthening our schools, keeping hospitals open, and building a future for our communities. We pay in, expecting support when we need it. But those at the very top keep finding ways to take what’s meant for us; our resources, our opportunities, our future and spend it on their own priorities.
Instead of investing in what our neighborhoods actually need, our tax dollars are being used to fund the military occupation of our own cities, to deploy the National Guard against us, and to support political tactics that keep us down. We’re being forced to pay for our own oppression by watching our money fuel systems that harm us, while the ultra-wealthy face no accountability.
We see the cost every day: broken classrooms, shuttered hospitals, and families forced to leave home in search of opportunity. It’s not just unfair, it’s a direct attack on everything we’ve worked for.
We’re demanding better. Black voters and our allies are calling on you: make these programs serve the people who fund them. Stop letting the ultra-wealthy misuse our money to undermine our communities and control our lives.