The Roland Martin Discussion Thread

[Wildhundreds]

Too bad we wouldn’t buy from ourselves. If we owned the hair, liquor and fast food businesses in our hoods, we’d be more than vocal about their negative impact on the community overall and probably wouldn’t support. It seems like we never have an issue with things until one of us begins to capitalize from it. Then all of a sudden there are suggestions, even demands on what that black person SHOULD be doing. You don’t get that otherwise.

Facts.. You can see this clearly with the steadily legalization of marijuana..

Hold this rep near and dear to your heart breh..

 

[CoryMack]

Don’t even need to listen to that shyt to tell the nikka he’s about 3 decades late.

Hope you youngsters learned from our business fukkups because you all will create all kinds of extraordinary things in the decades to come. So make sure you always maintain control and keep the crakkka man at least a couple arms lengths away.

Once you let the white man in it’s over. Always remember that. Once you admit the white man into the inner workings of anything it’s just a matter of time before he has complete control.

 

[Rollo Goodlove]

Crackers deep in this thread

@TITTY__CHOPPA

What country are y'all from?

 

[saturn7]

Honestly, this is the 1st time I've heard about this.

this vid gives a nice summary.

 

[saturn7]

These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

How you gonna compete against this WITH NO CAPITAL????

 

[screenname01]

These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

How you gonna compete against this WITH NO CAPITAL????

we cooked outchea, aint we mayne?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

roland martin shouldve voted for roland martin and stayed his azz right behind that journalist desk instead of trying to play political kingmaker. in a minute, hillary and bernie are both gonna fade into cac bolivia and theyll both be just fine with their $$$millions. come 2020, youll never hear from roland again as a journalist on any of the major news networks. and tariq, yvette, pbt, black authority etc are gonna use his youtube endeavors and aspirations as a cat scratching post.

This is not true at all.

Roland still does paid appearances on pundit panels on MSNBC and abc.

 

[null]

yea we should monetize buck dancing

In the case of Roland Martin

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Cliffs? I really don't wanna hear his Porky the Pig stutter

 

[TripleAgent]

 

[TNOT]

You dont monetize the culture you monetize the consumables the culture influences or generates

Fashion
Music
Hair/Hygiene/Beauty products
Etc.

How many black owned labels top tier rap labels are there? 0
How many black owned nationally distributed Fashion houses? 0
We have lots of Hair/ Hygiene/ Beauty companies but they are still a relatively small percentage of products consumed by Black people

Thats not even mentioning community convenience stores, weave shops, gas stations, restaurants, etc.

Our culture can be monetized because other cultures have figured out how to do it.

Exactly.

 

[saturn7]

we cooked outchea, aint we mayne?

But let Rollie and his type tell it all black people need is a desk and two cameras and we should be competing with CNN and MSNBC.

People don't understand how lucky we are to have something like youtube where you can get your channel popping with a relatively low barrier to entry.

Someone like Phil from the Advise show is doing his thing, has a million subscribers on youtube but that's not the same as owning a Network who control whole markets like Clear Channel.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

But let Rollie and his type tell it all black people need is a desk and two cameras and we should be competing with CNN and MSNBC.

People don't understand how lucky we are to have something like youtube where you can get your channel popping with a relatively low barrier to entry.

Someone like Phil from the Advise show is doing his thing, has a million subscribers on youtube but that's not the same as owning a Network who control whole markets like Clear Channel.

You don’t have to compete with CNN and them but you can exist. Remember when Phil has that witness from the cop that shot bruh in Dallas? Do you understand how major that was? All the stations had to use HIS shyt and credit HIM. She didn’t go to any other network after that either. People watch BET when some bullshyt is happening and these white folks know that, that’s part of why they run the BET Awards on all them Viacom stations and shyt. If somebody black states a news product and it gets popular they will have to come to you no matter what. Trying to compete with major networks is not the wave no more... you don’t even have to try to do that shyt now.

 

[Thegospel]

How do you monetize a culture?

Ask Jay z, Tariq, Kaepernick, etc. Pretty easy to be honest

 

[African Peasant]

How do you monetize a culture?

It's the usual confusion a lot of people make between culture and merchandise. That confusion led to a lot of mess... Wearing Nike shoes, for instance, became a part of the "culture".

Also, in order to make money off merchandises, you need an infrastructure.