See what I mean? It's always a deeper issue...all one has to do is look....
Everything you said is 100% true and all, but in all honesty, WE DID have all that stuff once before. Just look up Black Wall Street. We had one damn area. And that area had its own EVERYTHING...all black owned, and run. And if my information is correct, it was making more money than the rest of the damn country, but I might be wrong. What happened when they saw we had our shit together and the potential of what we COULD do? They burned it to the fucking ground. I dream for the day we can build to something like that again, but in THIS country, we're not even allowed to.
Another thing black people are the poster child for....and this drives me nuts at certain times....is fighting for equality for not only ourselves, but ANY COMMUNITY that's being held down or neglected. Our culture is all about peace and equality, but you'd never know that. Whenever there's a struggle, we're front and center because we know what WE'RE going through and have been through. But we fight to the death for other people....when it comes to ourselves, like Farrakhan said, we rally and fight, then we fall back to sleep. It drives me nuts that we are ALWAYS fighting for peace and togetherness when all we've received is pain and suffering from everybody. At some point, I'm not gonna lie, I'd love to see us fight back using the same methods that are killing us and holding us back.
I don't even know where to begin when it comes to the women of our community. You articulated it way better than I ever could. I mean, you see a lot of GUYS running around trying to play follow the leader as well, but I swear, it feels like these chicks these days don't even LIKE being black. They might say they do, but you see them with these fucking wigs and artificial body parts (I don't know WHY black chicks started THAT shit recently), and damn near everything else white chicks do. The fucked up part about that is that every other race has been busting their asses trying to be like and look like US for fucking EVER. And they don't even try to hide it. But for some reason, instead of seeing this and having even MORE reason to be Black and proud, it's like we're saying "fuck that, I wanna be something else".
Regarding Black Wall Street, almost everywhere Black people resided prior to the Civil Rights Movement was a 'Black Wall Street'; Tulsa was not the only one, but it's most popularized because there was the first time America dropped bombs on it's own soil. But let's not forget Rosewood, FL and many other Black owned metropolises. The only mistake these Black communities made was after they built a bookstore, a church, a school, a repair shop...they should've built a GUN SHOP. We didn't rebuild because it shook us to our core and we literally 'gave up', but it can be built again.
Regarding our jumping to the rescue of every other community instead of keeping our home fires burning, I agree with that wholeheartedly. I've NEVER heard of a Latino mention a 'brown and Black alliance', yet we're stuck on stupid and extending olive branches to those who don't give a fuck about us and wish to subjugate us in the same fashion white supremacy does. HELL, most of them identify themselves as white for fuck's sake. It's apparent in Telemundo and their handling of George Zimmerman and Erika Escalante that they are NOT allies of the Black community and their ABSENCE during the Civil Rights Movement, but because we're so fixated on interracialism and sexual access, we LIE to ourselves while they build the machinations to supplant us.
O, I haven't forgotten about the men; the white man creates MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) as an answer to Women's Lib, and what did the Black man do? Join up as if we, as a collective, had something to 'go our own way' with. A Black man saying 'I disavow misandry by refusing to marry (where she can get alimony) or have children (where she can get child support) because of an unfair judicial system'...but when you're broke, what's half of 0? And seeing that 70-75% of our children are being born in single parent households, is that shit our BIGGEST concern? Hell no, but because the white liberal male said it's a good idea, these dumb negro sheep clamber at the chance to be seen in association with bullshit that has absolutely nothing to do with us. A bunch of shuck and jiving on both sides of the fence, not only are we a people plagued with petty differences, but we're serious about everything except being serious.
Regarding our women and their standard of beauty, with an economy and a code of conduct that kind of nonsense wouldn't be allowed. I don't personally mind weaves and whatever else, but if they've definitively have it set in their mind that they want to emulate European women, it's to be checked and dealt with. But, again, if you or no one who looks likes you has earned her deference, she's NOT going to care what you think about anything she's doing. As Black men, we must build incentives to pursuade our women that being Black is a good thing and that can come through a myriad of ways:
Who controls the levers that decide 'desirable features'? The European.
Counter: Create your own media outlets that promote the African woman's beauty.
If lady's boss says 'your afro/braids come across as 'aggressive' and they threaten to fire her if she doesn't change her do, what are/can you do about it? Most will say 'I can't do anything'.
Counter: Either be a breadwinner or a business owner.
There's no other race of women on this planet that doesn't defer to their men, except us.
White women defer to white men.
Asian women defer to Asian men.
Jewish women defer to Jewish men.
Black women defer to white men.
Black men defer to white men.
Yet we wonder why our women emulate white women?
During the 80s and 90s, Jewish women vied to look more Anglo-Saxon and many of them ran to get nose jobs, BUT THEIR MEN SHUT IT DOWN.
A few years ago, Jessica Alba got on TV and said that she didn't think it was important for her children to know Spanish AND HER PEOPLE GOT HER IN ASS. She gave a wholesome apology and appeared in Machete to atone.
Azalia Banks says fuck Black men, demands Black men protect her, gets called out by Wale and she tells him to go fuck himself, that she'll let white men put her on a pedestal, and that Black men who refused to protect women like her belong in prison. She later told Sarah Palin that she hope Palin gets a train ran on her, Palin threatened litigation, and Banks started kissing Palin's ass.
^^ That kind of shit doesn't happen to a collective of men with power, wealth and influence.
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