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Summary Of Price Of The Ticket By Fredrick Harris

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THE PRICE OF THE TICKET by Fredrick Harris

Fredrick Harris looks deeply in to the influences that black politicians have played in undermining the issue of race. “The Price of The Ticket” takes us through the time line of black politics from the beginning of the civil rights movement to the present. He uses two strategies to explain the phenomenon of black politics; Coalition politics, which requires blacks to join forces with all races to support policies that benefit the community and independent black politics that makes blacks, join forces with communities who share the same struggles to address community issues. He breaks down the history through the past four decades, analyzing the campaigns of the past black politicians such as Jesse …show more content…

In chapter 5, the author titles this chapter “ Wink, nod, vote” to address the issue of political symbolism that African Americans have settled for and politicians have gladly used to their benefit. The title simply means that most times politicians tend to promise and give their word to a certain group of people and not fulfill these promises once in office. In other wards, when Obama was campaigning, he gave false signals to black Americans (did not publicly say it) that he would address situations in the black community if they vote for him. However, the author says that these technics of the wink, nod and vote were the same tricks used in the Jim Crow era and African Americans ended up loosing in the …show more content…

According to Harris, the neutral race campaigning was perfectly mastered by president Obama. He claims that these technics are very negative because they embrace issues that are appealing to white voters and dismiss the issues that eliminate racial inequality. Avoiding racial discrimination and issues that address racial problems in the black community simply means allowing slavery to be prevalent. The lack of a fair and equal exposure to good education, unemployment, police brutality and unnecessary incarceration to mention a few, are the same issues that slaves faced. It is therefore very understandable when the author critics the big support that Obama gets from African Americans. He claims that the black community’s failure to question the president’s failure to address the issues that concern their communities is a very big price to

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