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In any organized movement, there is a strategy. The strategy involves a series of tactics that come in stages. Public protest in the form of marching is an early stage; it is a tactic that seeks to dramatize a grievance by using the streets as a stage . Marches are not the be-all end-all; they are an attention-getting mechanism which serve to usher in the next stage which very often involves boycotting. Of course, legal challenges to injustices are an ongoing approach behind the scenes of any movement.But as we have seen in the incorrect charges lodged against Zimmerman, legal ploys can be used to circumvent the pursuit of justice. The final stage of a movement involves the achievement of having its goal become an institution in the greater society. Presumably in a Democracy this process works and the voice of the people prevails. Unfortunately, America is not what it claims to be. The majority does not rule, the States are not united, and the great melting pot has cooled and congealed as each ingredient has separated, becoming a clump of its own kind, and none of these entities seem inclined to blend with African-Americans. With all of their praying and struggling and demanding, black people have never achieved anything but tokenism. Barack Obama is the supreme example of this impotency. The question is why do Blacks remain mired in a situation that keeps them down. Is it because we remain strangers in a strange land, and don't know how to maneuver in a concrete jungle? Is it because class distinctions have become the equivalent of opposing tribes? When a situation never undergoes permanent change, there has to be an inherent reason for this. What is it?? Is it natural for Blacks to be despised and rejected, even among themselves? Jews have experienced centuries of anti-semitism and have never elected an American President, but they thrive. Their power lies in the mercantile genius of their DNA which provides them with the supreme weapon. Money.