I went in for the "Black family buys black for a year" thread and eventually felt like I was talking to myself.
I won't even bother anymore. Especially when people don't acknowledge the scope in which politics(not enough of our people are active in local politics)
covers our social condition and economic standing.
It's the internet breh, not everyone is going to hold your view points in the same regard as you hold your own. I believe in black separation and ultimately repatriation back to Africa, but I know I'm in the vast minority. More importantly the internet isn't the place to have any serious conversation. It's best to do that in person with people you actually know.
Cop kills kid. Most people peacefully protest, black, white, and everything in between. Thats all well and good, but it only goes so far.
A nut contingent thinks destroying your neighborhood is ok because "I don't own anything there." When you are tired from the march, where do you lay?
When your kids must continue school, where do they go? When you haven't had food, where do you shop? Now that your neighborhood is in shambles,
who wants to live there? Who trusts their neighbors anymore after seeing what they have done? Fools assume that turning up will make a huge difference,
when 400+ years says otherwise. They have patience, money, and most importantly, perseverance, and suckas think they can reinvent the wheel.
Personally I think violence is sometimes a solution. If the QT didn't get burned down after Mike Brown was shot, would it have gotten the worldwide coverage it did? Maybe, but them "turning up" shined an international spotlight on the situation. Beside, most the people in Ferguson protesting were extremely peaceful. It was only a select few (with some white anarchists sprinkled in) who got violent.
We literally have tons more tools available to us now than we did 50 years ago, 30 years ago, even 10. Nobody on this planet you can't reach, and oppressors
can't hide atrocities. We can vote locally, raise hell, we KNOW where the local decision makers live, this shyt is online in a 2 minute google search.
Breh, oppressors don't have to hide their atrocities. We all know the history of white aggression in this country, it's extremely well documented. It hasn't made a single non black person step in and offer serious help (at least not publicly).
THEY ARE THE ONES WITH THE KEY TO THE CHAINS! But no, we gonna get mad, and we gonna march or riot, when an afternoon at a computer can
get you like-minded people who can say "This is the guy who slept on us, and we want him gone." Community spirit matters. Voting matters. Educating yourself
on law (mostly local, but federal as well) matters. Willful ignorance and getting upset at the latest headline, whining "They don't give a fukk about us" and not putting
people up on game to make your community work for you seems to be the prevailing thought.
All of what you said is true, but here's the problem: black people aren't organized. It's one of the reasons why it's difficult for us to get anything done. Because in the middle of you trying to get something done, someone will bring up religion, colorism, feminism, captalism, and a bunch of other useless shyt to get the focus off of the main point of the group meeting together. Every single group I've been involved in, I've personally have had to diffuse shouting matches because dudes want to run off on tangents about why we don't have any women present or why aren't starting the meeting off in prayer.
Most importantly, people not recognizing while group economics is
an amazing thing, it will ONLY be the solution community to community, which means while you may see your neighborhood come ahead, other neighborhoods face
different circumstances and they may not care. Pride in ourselves is literally the smallest percentage of "Things to do to bring Blacks to prominence."
Without the knowledge, and not smart-dumb revisionist black history, nothing well ever change, save for the things to complain about.
Group economics isn't the solution to the problem. It's part of the solution. It's why people who subscribe to black nationalism included politics and education in the equation. Other people include media representation. Other include purchasing land to create a separate physical community for black people. And that's part of why the issue is difficult to tackle. Ask 15 different people what the answer is and you'll get 15 different answers......and unfortunately they're probably all right. The problem is all encompassing. It's police brutality, feminisim, single parent homes, lack of businesses, lack of focus on education the prison industrial complex, healthcare, finance, not enough blacks in stem, hip-hop, and on and on you can go.
In my opinion, what black people who want to help should do is focus on the areas they're the most passionate about. If you think education is most important, find people where you live who are like minded, and attempt to come up with a program to address the issues you see. Make a website/social media page to market it, and work your ass off on building up and getting the word out. The same goes for addressing single parent homes, feminism, lack of entrepreneurs, lack of blacks in college, lack of family values, us not working in the local political arena, etc.
Me personally, I'm focusing on the economic aspect of it. I got some thing in place that I'm working on, and hopefully it will get big enough to allow black people to get laser focused on entrepreneurship.
But all the shyt I typed is irrelevant for one simple fukking reason, you're not going to get shyt done online. It won't happen. I've had so many nikkas hit me on the inbox saying yo I want to join the organization you're in. I give them my phone number, my email, my government name, as well as the time and location of our next meeting. Not a single person has shown up. I follow up next week and remind of the next meeting....and again, nobody shows up.
The internet is useful for disseminating information, but on a site like the coli that's 99.9999% fukkery, you're never gonna get a serious dialoge. Which is why I troll so much on here. I've had people accuse me of being a cac, a c00n, a simp.....even got called a bedwench once
Find people where you live and work with them. Let the coli be the fukkery it's always been.