Metamorphosis: The Power of Change and Voting in the Black Community
- James Jerome Hankin
- Dec 29, 2025
- 2 min read
29 December 2025
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Author James Jerome Hankins:
EXCERPTS FROM MY BOOK “WHAT WE BLACKS NEED TO DO PART 2”.
For parents and students researching and studying the candidates/issues as we prepare to VOTE in the 3 November midterm election 2026.
Lesson # 31 of 44. METAMORPHOSIS: A change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one, by nature or supernatural means. That infamous statement. “Blacks have no rights which the white man was bound to respect, came from Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's majority opinion in the 1857 DRED SCOTT V. CANDFORD Supreme Court case, which denied citizenship to African Americans and ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, exacerbating national divisions over slavery and leading to the Civil War. Another Supreme Court case in 1896, PLESSY V. FERGUSON legalized segregation/ Jim Crow, then along came a "METAMORPHOSIS". In 1954, during the so- called separate but equal segregations the equal was about 6% for blacks, while the separate was 94% for whites. The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, voted unanimously to end segregation in public schools. Their only error was telling the states to do it "With all deliberate speed". The racist states, like my North Carolina, interpreted that to mean "Take your time."
It is a FACT that when the people register, support, speak out, and VOTE, their candidates WIN. We know how strong we are because together we elected Barack Obama President twice. In 2024, we backslid, remained silent, stayed home, and did not vote for Kamala Harris or the politicians who supported her leadership.
Seven ( 7) million MAGA voters excused Trump's skirt chasing, disrespecting little girls in his many beauty pageants, and all the ladies, stealing every dime he could by enriching his family and fellow crooks, and his pathological lying held their noses and VOTED for him. Mama and Popa said, "Treat people the way you want to be treated. Parents, remember Afra and Omaga, you will choose your children's nursery school, and they will choose your nursing home! SMILE! Don't you think it is time for you and your family and close friends to go through a positive METAMORPHOSIS, the true meaning of CHRISTMAS? HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Read ROMANS 12:2 and have a family discussion.
Black Civic Engagement
Historical Transformation
Voter Education
About
James Jerome Hankins is an Author, Journalist (NABJ), Real Estate Broker, Army Veteran, NAACP Life Member, AFT Member, 34-year "Shop" teacher, and 1971 graduate of North Carolina A&T State University.
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