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Hail!!
I agree with everything you posted I just disagree with the perspective.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.
The reason we keep spinning in the wheel is because with integration our focus was on just being a part of society, so as we "progressed" and we became CEO's and Managing Directors and in few cases Partners we were in essence content to be the black face of a white institution. We looked at being the lone black person as a badge of honor and we gonna prove that we can compete and open doors, which isnt exactly bad its a necessity honestly, but what folks misunderstand is there is an additional step past that. Yeah you opened the door, yeah you were the only one now there is 50 but what we should have done next is OPENED OUR OWN.
There is no excuse for there to not be a "Big 4" Acct firm, or Law Practice, or Investment house. Training the next generation and those to follow. You are right we lack the institutions but now we have the knowledge to make em and dominate. I keep reading about the lack of hiring in Silicon Valley yet black folks are graduating at a higher rate than most in those fields then why not start your own.
The blue print has been done b4 in this nation, I'm sorry I just cant walk away from shyt I built i'm hardheaded like that. But we still need to build institutions: schools, firms, cornerstones of the economy. We have all this wealth but we just spend it on others pockets. We gotta do for our own and call out any1 who is acting contrary
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