as much as i'm on the internet, i've never heard white supremacist suggest blacks practice group economics.every time i've suggested it to a cac online, they say it's reverse racism.
the image was implying marching isn't the best way to flex power. really think about it. you do all that marching and protesting, only to turn around and give most of your check to non black people. they take that money to strengthen their positions while ours are weakened.
if you believe the best solution is physical force, don't you also believe it'd require money? what type of war are you really trying to win without provisions? hypothetically, draw it out for me so i can understand. and please dont be like respond these magical nikkas and start quoting scripture.
i agree with your plan though
Yeah i agree we need money . I believe economic empowerment. I just don't want it to become just that and not speak about the other things we need that we can spread from the wealth of the community. I feel a lot movements main objectives/goals have been sidelined and end up forgotten
I think people protest because its the first action you can do when you're people get tired being mistreated. Letting the world know a injustice is happening, its not all willy nilly over here..to get the story out. When the community harboring anger they need a release. Most of the time if not all, ppl who revolt usually protest first to see if the gesture and the voices of the people will be heard from the oppressor. Everywhere around the world protest are happening right now. people in Mexico protesting, China, Palestine, Haiti. .not only us but when we don't say shyt people usually think the blacks in America aren't go through anything, thinking we live comfortable.
when comes to economic power in our community, i think a couple factors why black ownership in predominately black neighborhoods have drastically declined. The ones with real money and education leave their neighborhoods chasing a career (don't own/or open a business). they get better jobs and tend to leave their neighborhoods leaving it wide open for other to come in. Also the black community is split. you have the AA community that's already split from class and there's tension such as influx of African immigrants and Caribbean immigrants. Groups are clashing and alot of black people don't support black business because they think its inferior and and it's culture/class tensions. you have the people in the sidelines who taken advantage of the splintering and distrust within our communities.
most black investors usually turn their nose up at buying properties in predominately black neighborhoods while other races see the advantages of buying up these properties in these areas. they see that even though some of these neighborhoods are crime-ridden, everyone needs shelter as its necessity.The cash flow from these areas are usually quite large than what it would be in a more quality and desirable neighborhood because the purchase price is considerably. we need to change that mindset its the main factor, internalized inferiority. we cant have blacks who refused to live among other black people, look down on ethnic names, ethnic hair, refuse to go to black business, get seen by black health practitioners. many of us have faux self-esteem which manifests in everything including little to no black ownership in black neighborhoods. This plays a huge part in gentrification success.
After the mind-state and bulllshyt. now we get to the difference. There are black business owners especially in the 70's(with the whole black empowerment movement inspired) and currently. however the difference :
financing (start up capital-middle stage cap- and maturation cap),
insurance redlining,
home capital/leverage (foreign subsidies ). lack of financing the racism in banking and loan polices is crazy. .
i don't have any problems with anybody religion belief or using verses but i don't do that. if i remember history right black folks on a island try to remove a certain religion from a group people and change they ways(and other things) but later on got mascaraed by the other side of island later by the backing of cacs. Also i was watching video about the CRM with Mahalia Jackson speak about when we was marching/or what not Muslim(black Muslims )i think referring to the NOI was buying factories, owning acres farmland, building factories, own grocery stores in Chicago from the 50's-70's creating power among themselves.
The white folks I mention just take our talking points and troll with it in a passive aggressive way . Its no difference when they use Bob Marley, Obama, MLK jr, Malcolm x references to prove a half ass point. They feel like those people resonate with us.They will take what we say and switch it up.
for example paraphrasing" its different from m8ggas and nigg-, if those nigg- thugs didn't sag they pant, steal, throw up gang sign but got jobs in fix they gang riddle neighborhood maybe the cops wouldn't need to shoot them. They always complaining .....about this and that instead of buying Jordan, chains and spend money on real things things like everybody else they wouldn't need to be shot down."
You will hear a lot of this type of shyt on tumblr from white ppl(more so)/minorities. Its like they study us.