African Americans Letting Down Two Little Black Girls

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In the United States, affluent African Americans do not have financial independence but rather are burdened with financial bondage. Why do I align with the latter? It’s because affluent African Americans exist in a sort of vacuum—methodically isolated from their peers and controlled by all things (i.e., powerful people, institutions, corporations, the ruling class, etc.) that have enabled their affluent statuses.

On the other hand, African Americans with any moderate means toward their own survival—and/or those with the lack thereof—are intrinsically the predominant cultural asset of the African diaspora. Perhaps they are like robots in the unbounded remnants of slavery. Pinned down by America’s reins of power, who fear that any cultural paradigm shift will fundamentally undermine and/or change the wicked ways of America’s ruling class. A shift that would adversely re-blueprint the trajectory of America’s future. Historically neglected, African Americans own few assets in America’s enormous portfolio of industries. Yet they are the heirs of the ancestors who literally built some of those industries with their bare hands.

So, when two little innocent Black girls approach a Sesame Place “costume character” hoping to be embraced by love as it had demonstrated with White children that walked before them, instead, the little girls were met with rejection. I am forced to question Black culture again and again, wondering what the hell we are doing with our knowledge and wealth other than making everybody else’s culture rich. Where is all of our ownership in industry and entertainment venues? Why can’t we rise together? This is CRAZY!

Perhaps it wouldn’t be naive to think that principles are an extension of morality. Therefore, when people and/or a nation’s morality is in question, then how else can you place judgment, other than to say that what’s in question had been fundamentally wrong?