America has what it voted for.

Donald Trump is gone, though Trumpism must be dealt with in another forum.

Despite the failed coup d’état on Jan. 6, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have been sworn in. The Biden-Harris administration is now a reality.

The majority of Americans are ready for the country to move forward, but where does it go and how does it get there?

The “empire” of America must now come to grips with a number of structural problems:

Across the United States, voter suppression policies continue to disenfranchise the poor and voters of color.

In the aftermath of the George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbury murders, too many Americans do not feel safe in their own communities.

Twenty-five million American’s have died from COVID-19 as the government struggles with the logistics of vaccine distribution and inoculation.

COVID-19 also continues to ravage the American economy. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the four-week moving average of first-time filings for unemployment insurance claims was 834,250, an increase of 18,250 from the previous week’s revised average.

Also, 30 million to 40 million Americans are on the verge of being evicted from their homes in the dead of winter and in the midst of a pandemic.

The world also knows, as W.E.B DuBois wrote, that the problem of the 20th century is “the problem of the color line.” In 1967, the Kerner Commission warned, “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal” and COVID-19 has highlighted deep-rooted systemic racial disparities in health care, highlighting the adage when America catches a cold, Black America gets pneumonia.

As the Biden administration implements its COVID-19, economic, social justice, education and other programs, African- Americans must be at the forefront of articulating the needs of and for the African-American community. “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.” It will be fatal for the community if it overlooks the urgency of the moment.

How quickly President Biden appeared to set aside the fact that Black voters saved his candidacy and put him in the White House. He was about to drop out of the race until African-American voters in South Carolina delivered him a resounding win.

Yet, in December, civil rights leaders had to demand a meeting with the then-president-elect in order to express their concerns about a lack of focus on racial equity, social justice and increased diversity in the Biden-Harris cabinet. U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina is on record saying not enough Black Americans have been nominated to join the incoming Biden administration.

Frederick Douglass told us, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them ... The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

What is the African-American community willing to demand?

We need a Marshall Plan for the African-American community. If the United States could spend $15 billion to rebuild Europe after the devastation of WWII and pass a $740 billion Defense Authorization Act, then the United States can invest the needed dollars to rebuild the American communities of color that it devastated with the Tulsa race riot, the Red Summer of 1919 and the gutting of urban centers with the building of the highway system of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

The question is not what rewards the Black community will be given for its efforts. Instead, the Black community must decide what it is willing to demand.

The writer is host and executive producer of “Inside the Issues with Wilmer Leon” on Sirius XM Radio.