What he said is entirely correct, but when them folks come into your neighborhood and start dropping bombs, taking houses via eminent domain, shutting down your businesses, etc. It's a whole different ballgame.
That's the shyt none of these gurus have an answer to
I agree with what you're saying.
But what happens after white supremacy flares up?
Black life still goes on.
They haven't killed us off yet.
God forbid, if (and when) one of these examples of white domestic terrorism happen, don't you think a community of black people, who had all their internal ducks in a row, would easier rebound as opposed to a community of black people who are internally dysfunctional?
I always go back to John W. Rogers, founder of Ariel Investments, and one of the wealthiest black men in the country. His great grandfather was a millionaire Tulsa banker who lost everything during the riots and had to flee Tulsa for his life. He came to Chicago with nothing. But easily within a generation, got his family back on track and now his descendants are among the wealthiest blacks in the country again.
Yes, white supremacy happens. But that's not the end. Throughout our history, we have had to pick up the pieces and keep moving forward.
It's not just enough to say, yes he's right, we can do these things, but then white supremacy happens and leave it there. We should be saying, white supremacy happens, but as we're fighting in high places to change the system, on the ground, we have to keep progressing forward, and in order for that to happen, and be able to rebound in the face of possible white supremacist tactics, we have to have our internal ducks in a row. We have to cut the dysfunction, otherwise white supremacy + dysfunction will devastate us to the point of no return.
