We have an idiocy problem in the Black community.

[Still Benefited]

You all are missing the point. How many black banks do we have? Black hedge funds? Black hospitals?

We have little to no power that matters. in 2024 going into 2025.

We're still "fighting" for shyt people "fought" for 60+ years ago. It doesn't add up. The only thing we dominate is housing projects.

Exhibit A

Your halfway cooking and half being disrespectful as hell


You cant really paint the picture like civil rights leaders just integrated,quit and rode off into the sunset.


If leaders hadnt been assasinated, and movements fractured and torn apart by govt intervention. Whos to know how things wouldve turned out. The plan wasnt to to just integrate and stop making strides. People in the 50's and 60s had various ideologies and were always adjusting. You cant blame them for the fact those who followed behind have failed to adjust and fix any mistakes they may have made.

We get upset at civil rights leaders for integration etc as if our hands are tied lol. We have far less threats working against us if we wanted to ADJUST. Cant blame civil rights leaders for making us comfortable and therefore complacent. The comfort they afforded us was deserved. Complacency of those that followed just happened to be a consequence. And this is if we completely skip over cointelpro,crack and say black people shouldve been able to adjust to all of it. Which is a hard ask


Way to many extenuating circumstances occured to pretend what we see today was the vision of elders. Or to say they shouldve predicted all of it. Plus black businesses and communities already existed due to the nature of segregation. They couldnt have predicted that would change just because integration became a normal thing.

 

[ThatTruth777]

Idiots know if they say the dumbest shyt possible, they can get attention

 

[Jonah]

Harsh language but it's true

Our people being shuffled into failing under funded schools has created a populace that is uniquely susceptible to disinformation.

Social media has made it hard for a chunk of our people to see who the enemy is

This has been an issue since slavery ended, breh. you hella late to the party

Whenever we earn some success, white folks is there to tear us down and put us back in "our place" as they call it.

The war on drugs killed off a lot of our intelligent kinfolk and drove our people further into poverty.

So it's no wonder that our people are susceptible to misinformation, all because cacs want to control us

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Your perspective ignores the structural racism that underfunded Black schools, restricted jobs, and deprived neighborhoods of investment. Black leaders didn't push for integration to "sit with white people," they fought because the system purposely kept Black communities down. Saying Black people "lean on" white businesses, while ignoring how the system blocks Black entrepreneurship, is just reductive.

Your second post somehow manages to be worse than the first one, because it attempts to erase the thriving Black communities that were deliberately destroyed. Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Detroit's Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, Seneca Village in New York, and so on, were all centers of Black wealth and culture, decimated by state-sanctioned violence, racist policies, and so-called "urban renewal." These weren't just random occurrences, but targeted efforts to harm Black productivity while strengthening barriers to Black success - barriers that still exist today. You're not being revolutionary in your "critique," you're just being dishonest.

I should’ve had you on my ignore list… damn I’m slipping

There are no black wall streets or Seneca Villiages in 2024.

You would’ve been better off siting the construction of the modern highway system and how it destroyed hundreds of black neighborhoods. In the 50’s, 60’s before after, there was always a divide in the black community in this country. Educated, middle class black families did not want to intermingle with less educated poor black people. Those people more or less achieved what they thought was equality but it wasn’t.

Fixing black schools and education should’ve been more of a priority over integrating into an education system controlled by white people. Even Dr. King said he feared integrating could be leading us into a burning house. He also spoke about reparations before he was killed.

In 2024, Koreans, Jews and Arabs shouldn’t control the businesses, and real estate in black communities. But that’s the case in hundreds of neighborhoods all over the country. And the goal of wealthy black people start businesses is to eventually sell to white people. You have generations of lost individuals that are subservient to a system that was constructed to work against us.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

I should’ve had you on my ignore list… damn I’m slipping

There are no black wall streets or Seneca Villiages in 2024.

You would’ve been better off siting the construction of the modern highway system and how it destroyed hundreds of black neighborhoods. In the 50’s, 60’s before after, there was always a divide in the black community in this country. Educated, middle class black families did not want to intermingle with less educated poor black people. Those people more or less achieved what they thought was equality but it wasn’t.

Fixing black schools and education should’ve been more of a priority over integrating into an education system controlled by white people. Even Dr. King said he feared integrating could be leading us into a burning house. He also spoke about reparations before he was killed.

In 2024, Koreans, Jews and Arabs shouldn’t control the businesses, and real estate in black communities. But that’s the case in hundreds of neighborhoods all over the country. And the goal of wealthy black people start businesses is to eventually sell to white people. You have generations of lost individuals that are subservient to a system that was constructed to work against us.

The problem with focusing solely on ownership or "fixing Black schools" without acknowledging why those schools and communities are underfunded is just treating symptoms while ignoring the disease. Yes, foreign businesses in Black neighborhoods are an issue, but it's simplistic to attribute that solely to a lack of Black entrepreneurship. These dynamics are the result of banking discrimination, redlining, biased zoning laws, and licensing issues, that make it difficult for Black entrepreneurs to thrive in their own neighborhoods.

You also mention MLK's "burning house" quote, but let's not cherry-pick his words to suit a specific narrative. He wasn't just expressing doubt about integration, he was pushing for economic justice *and* systemic reform, both of which require addressing racial inequities embedded across all institutions.

And as far as the intra-communal divide within the Black community, that didn't happen in a vacuum, either. Classism exists in every group, but when systemic forces create economic scarcity, it intensifies those divisions. Let's not pretend that the choice to integrate was a simple sell-out of Black autonomy when it was a demand for equal access and resources that have always been disproportionately withheld. To get anywhere, we have to address these structural barriers head-on, rather than implying that a lack of self-sufficiency or internal division is the root of the problem. Without a deep structural analysis, critiques about ownership or education just end up blaming Black people for not succeeding in a system set up to work against us.

 

[3rdWorld]

At some point we have to recognize that people are actual adults, grown ups.

Adults residing in the wealthiest and most information accessible nation and people still choose to be ignorant and display regressive poverty of the mind.

If in 2024 you need to be beaten over the head with an inanimate object to knock some sense into your head, then your life is fukked and that of those around you.
Who has time to sit down and try re educate adults on basic common sense??
:cosby:

 

[Htrb-nvr-blk-&-ug-as-evr]

Yall pay particular attention to what’s happening in Texas and the bullshyt school voucher program that the wheeled honky governor will eventually push through. If successful, you’ll see how bad it’ll get for black kids down here….

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I've been called a c00n several times for saying black folks need to stop blaming racism for all of our failures.



I don't want to hear shyt.

 

[3rdWorld]

Weren't you one of the biggest proponents of foreign anti Black rhetoric and hanging onto every word Tariq pulls out his ass and using his talking points and terms??

 

[BrothaZay]

we've had a severe idiocy problem in the Black community since Brother Garvey was among us and was warning us then, well over 100 years ago, what was going to happen if we didn't get serious about the building up of the race. today you can find people on this very messageboard who call that man a c00n.

now we're seeing the consequences.

fucc that nicca

 

[CoryMack]

fucc that nicca

You’re an ignorant nikka who gangbangs on the internet. You represent the very worst of Black people.

Back to ignore you go fatso.

 

[Ozymandeas]

Blame integration and blame Affirmative Action. Blame the black people who would rather send their kids to white schools, instead of fixing our own.

Black people in the 50's and 60's who had power and influence only cared about assimilating with white society. They thought, if they ate where white people ate and studied the same books white people studied that they would be equal


If you need Affirmative Action just to attend a school, that means you are subjecting yourself to a lower class. It means you're fighting for the "privilege" of sitting with cac.


And over decades of conditioning, we have evolved into having to lean on white people for damn near everything. Rappers talk about white lawyers. As soon as black people get money, they run to buy shyt from white people. shyt is sad. It's like a runaway train that's passed being able to be stopped.

Having rich white kids go to schools that are better funded because they receive more funding by way of taxes is affirmative action. We’ve just been brainwashed to not see it that way. If every school received equal funding and resources, there’d be no need to have affirmative action.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

This is disgusting self hating shyt, ain't nothing wrong with assimilating we weren't even given the chance to build up our own shyt or have the option for it.

You old thinking c00ns are disgusting I can't wait until ur type die off with that thinking fr fr.

"who would rather send their kids to white schools, instead of fixing our own."

He's not wrong as person who went to an all white HS with like maybe 4-5 black kids in the mix, the shyt you'll come across not I'm not even ready to put it into words on a forum. Luckily my HS was in an urban area so the racist I dealt with was wasn't that crazy but in suburban area? yh man good luck

 

[Rakim Allah]

Unlike you I've consistently distanced myself from Umar and his supposed status of "Prince" of Pan Africanism.

No you didn’t, Boochie.

 

[1LurkerChick9]

we've had a severe idiocy problem in the Black community since Brother Garvey was among us and was warning us then, well over 100 years ago, what was going to happen if we didn't get serious about the building up of the race. today you can find people on this very messageboard who call that man a c00n.

now we're seeing the consequences.

The "Garvey Must Go" Campaign | American Experience | PBS

By 1920, A. Philip Randolph and other black leaders, some of whom had supported Garvey after his arrival in the United States, came to believe that Garvey's program for black advancement was unsound, and that Garvey himself was a charlatan.

www.pbs.org

" The "Garvey Must Go" Campaign gained momentum after Garvey held a secret meeting with Edward Young Clarke, the leader of the Ku Klux Klan, in June 1922. Immediately afterward, Randolph and Owen's Messenger magazine published an article entitled "Marcus Garvey! The Black Imperial Wizard Becomes Messenger Boy of the White Klu Klux Kleagle." Black leaders were further infuriated when they learned that Garvey, at a speaking engagement in New Orleans, remarked that because black people had not built the railroad system, they should not insist on riding in the same cars with white patrons"