- It was a myth that slavery would end. It was a myth that legalized segregation would end. It was a myth that we would have a “black” president.
- We are 25% of the Dem base. They have no choice but to “play ball” if we vote strategically, as all other groups are encouraged to do.
- Who is talking about building wealth “with a job”?
- Who is talking about building wealth “with a job”?
That fucking report Tone put out! How do you close the black-white wealth gap giving people government jobs?
Look man, white immigrants came here as peasants and were offered the chance to survive in hope for a better life for THEIR future generations.
We were brought here as property and have been treated as such TO THIS DAY! Slaveowners got reparations and we were left to fend FOR ourselves, TO ourselves. And we actually started thriving but the ONLY reason that didn't work is because we didn't have a defense to ward off these cacs when they came to destroy what we built. They control the gears to the system. Our platforms are built on top of theirs, which means we must ALWAYS be in an adaptive mode, a compensatory mode AND a parallel response mode, anticipating what's being forecast.....until we correct the system. We are paratroopers in all 9 areas.
We're not immigrants and immigrant-minded. We're the kidnapped, some with Stockholm Syndrome, trying to make a life of having to be forced to live with our kidnappers. In that sense, slavery hasn't ended because the tentacles of white supremacy reach worldwide, so ain't nowhere to run to and ain't nowhere to hide. It's a worldwide system. Any movement we make can be undermined given the security system they've set up to keep us in place. But that doesn't mean we do nothing. White men building businesses got our asses enslaved. Black men building businesses might help us gain some freedom. Begging for reparations and government jobs might help some gain freedom as well. But I'm not going to rule any option out whereas Tone and Yvette are on some ego shit trying to push their way as the only way, which is not doing anything but causing division. We just Robert F. Smith clear a WHOLE graduating class' debt and you're going to tell me building a black business won't help?Really??
Blaming Obama for not giving us reparations is a very easy target, which is classically how we treat each other as p.o.w's. TWENTY-SEVEN presidents since the Civil War that came before Obama but niggas are mad at HIM for not giving us reparations, knowing full-well that had he pursued that they would have "allowed" him to be assassinated. Obama was a politician, not a Black Messiah. And he played within the acceptable bounds of being subject to the system of white supremacy.
If ALL we have is our vote, we're doomed. We are fucking doomed. But we have more cards than that. We can create better circumstances for ourselves by taking shit into our own hands and using our brains to solve problems.
Rodney Scott, the bbq pitmaster from South Carolina is a shining example of a man coming from a family who worked hard, put blood, sweat and tears into a business and made a better life. We need that times a million. So fuck voting and only voting. We need all hands in all areas on deck.