The problem that arises in what American presidents Clinton and Obama have repeatedly called a “one-nation one-state” political system is: how will the state assure and protect the unique needs and interests of its historically oppressed national minorities? Most black officials in the United States government are in the same position as the president; they were not elected to speak or work for African Americans’ interests, but must represent the interests of their constituencies as a whole — the majority’s interests. When the majority-dominated platform of both political parties and the policy agenda of government ignore African Americans’ needs, then they have no democratic mechanism to solve their problems.