some of his details were pretty much bullshyt, but his main point is very useful. ive come to accept this mixed quality from black nationalist speakers because theyre too passionate to have a clinical look at the issue, and their backgrounds are usually not from academia, or if formally educated, they come from business where you learn that messaging is more potent when focused and strong, not nuanced and matter of fact. most people are going to listen when you give them a juicy narrative with a few self serving platitudes thrown in for good measure.
that being said, the basic message is factually true, and if more black people were at least conscious of it, we would be better off to some degree.
that message in a nutshell with the BS stripped out:
1. "black people", as an ethnic group, were cultivated by whites to have a slave mentality
2. black people have consistently shown a desire and ability to control some means of production, and source of steady job creation
3. black efforts toward long term wealth building behaviors were systematically destroyed by white people at various points in our history in america
4. the result of points 1 and 3 is the condition of significant clusters of black people across the country being largely unemployable or unqualified for more lucrative opportunities
5. the result of point 4 is a culture that very likely will help keep black people in a weak position even if the efforts of steps 1 and 3 are reduced in severity
now, to whites and asians who take issue with some understandably hostile or factually wrong statements he made in those videos, you would have some right to feel that way, but you would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. the points i drew out of his speech are easily defensible with a reading of american history slightly deeper than american history 101, and just about any serious sociological study. for the politically partisan, this problem contains solutions from both the left and right paradigm, so just about everybody who loves black people should be able to get something useful from that message.
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