Basically a group of people with the same focus sharing ideas and building the community. Rather than loose conversation, we would meet or converse regularly and determine how to tackle these specific issues. For example let's say from this thread we worked hard to push the Sept. 8 boycott amongst our social and personal networks.
Since we're dedicated to sharing ideas and playing the long game, we'd take it a step further after the boycott and analyze the stock market and other info to see what worked and what didn't. We could share ideas and theories with various other channels to figure out a next step, all while also planning food co-ops, fundraisers, gun clubs, meetings and whatnot in our areas and refining them and putting people in touch with people throughout the country, etc.
On the Coli alone, there's no reason why we can't let this organized thought and momentum turn into raising money and combining our resources to do whatever what wanted. Like, let's say I meet up with 5 LA brehs and we're talking about the lack of black grocery stores. OK, we don't have black grocery stores, but we can start growing our own food. We don't have land yet, but one of us has a big back yard, so we pool our money and tend to those crops. We can sell at the Farmer's Markets, while spreading the word to other black people in the city who can start their own co-op, to the point that we can buy land or open our own grocery stores. But it all started with combining the thoughts and ideas.
As blacks in America, we mainly have individual personalities that tell us what we should or could do. That's valuable, but we need consistent thought and action among each other at all times, because that's the only way we can grow. Dude in this thread told me I should drop some links in the OP and now it looks better and more welcoming and is fostering more conversation. His one thought sparked something in my brain that wasn't originally there and helped me help the overall cause. Now that's a small example, but imagine if we collaborated like that all the time about everything, especially the important things. Steel sharpens steel.
