>how can we come together
>to figure out what our next steps as a people are?

I think Johnson is trying to answer your question. He's trying to push for Black political independence. The need for it is so obvious that it's laughable to try to attack him for it.

In a transparent bid to boost Republican fortunes among
>Blacks, billionaire Bob Johnson attempted earlier this year
>to convene a secret meeting of prominent African Americans
>at BET headquarters in Washington, DC.

It seems to me that what he was talking about was political independence, not necessarily voting Republican per se. It's not as though the Libera Agenda and what's best for Blacks goes hand in hand anyway, IMO.
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“All the scared niggers are dead” – Stokely Carmichael

"...and once we control at least the economy of our own community, we will actually be in a position to provide employment for the people of the community. And this will eliminate the necessity of us acting ignorantly and disgracefully boycotting and picketing some cracka somewhere else trying to beg him for a job. Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job, you're in bad shape.” - Malcolm X