Your first para is my point, we have the ability to do these things and operate within those spaces outside of "the forces that be" the only real hindrance is ourselves and our mentality about how we view and work within ourselves.
This is a capitalist nation, it is what it is, our problem is we keep relying on others to do for us when we have the foundation to do forself.
I think the best thing to come out of recent police shootings and such is that more and more we are uniting over common cause, this existed in spurts before but the net is slowly eliminating plausable deniability and more folks who used to be on that
shyt are realizing wzup. Its funny cause I know many a cat who wasnt trying to have them convos are starting to seek me out. As I said more folks are "awakening" for lack of a better phrase this has to be a good thing, no?
I've really enjoyed your posts in this thread, but the bolded is where we've got it twisted. We're like a rodent spinning on a wheel until we realize that.
Black people have an incredible work ethic. Our history proves it and many make miracles with nothing today. And there is no doubting our
entrepeneurial skills either. It's within us. And in a country that has done all they can from educating us, it was necessary.
The real problem is that we do not have power in this country, even with a Black president. If that isn't a reality check, I don't know what is. Those who do have power obtained it on the strength of our backs. They have the laws, they have the money, they have the power. Even worse, they have no intention of allowing us to obtain any of that to a scale where we can enact change. Hell, they may even be trying to kill us off on the low.
You'll say, well we're making progress. The progress you speak of today has been around since forever. Blacks flourished during reconstruction. They also owned many banks in the 1950's. We've always had athletes and celebrities. And there are many studies today that show the bulk of us are worse off than what we were immediately after the Jim Crow era.
The game is rigged. There's been one thing that has forcefully held us back. Yet instead of moving away from that resistance, we doggedly try to fight it. We've spent way too long doing that, all because they've somehow brainwashed us into thinking whatever we do has to be done here, among them, or it ain't legit.
We aren't supposed to be here, oppressed mentally and physically by others. This isn't the end of our destiny. The future of Black America will be Blacks leaving America and finding a place where they can lay a foundation for their children, accumulate wealth and forever break the mental shackles that remain to this very day.