Black Men Listen II

CTA, not a lecture.
Unfortunately, John
is on point, Black men.

I have created this post as a means to reach out to young rich Negroes and not the wealthy ones, as it would be symbolic of a cultural embarrassment if the latter did not already know. Given the circumstances described below, our collective response ought to be on an epic level.

For rich Black men: Notwithstanding how you leverage your hard-earned money, if your intentions are not to facilitate the enrichment of other male Negroes with the intellectual capacity to do the same, then you are fundamentally contributing to the overall slow progression of “Black wealth” and the enduring cultural failures of Black people. Moreover, maintaining an egocentric attitude that disregards the accumulative wealth of America’s Black culture merely sustains the residual effects that slavery, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, Jim Crow, and institutionalized racism continue to have on Black men.

We’re at a juncture now where disunity and “willful ignorance” and/or “ignorance is bliss” have all but metaphorically wiped out the cooperative collaboration and teamwork of Black men on self-employment fronts, corporate fronts, and even home-fronts where the old adage, “it takes a village to raise a child,” still applies today. Some notoriously known obstacles that are immobilizing the broad success stories of Black men are as follows: 1) having a fear of chance (taking enormous financial risks in order to achieve remarkable feats). 2) being influenced by the crabs-in-a-bucket phenomenon. 3) callously exterminating each other over horrendously trivial things. As a result, Black women are viewed as the principals of Black culture, which is often portrayed that way by America’s media. Black men should be the gender that exhibits its culture’s full collective strength, not Black women. Otherwise, Black culture would be experiencing its own “identity crisis.”

All things considered, Black men, let’s tell racism, viruses, threats of murder, national inconveniences (i.e., segments of media that have long created a pernicious stigma around us), and so forth—that metaphorically they can all go to hell. Let’s reestablish our faith in God. Let’s start striving to enrich each other so that we can more broadly provide for our families while simultaneously building cultural-ethnic wealth. And remember, securing land, having lots of money, and sharing cultural-ethnic values among ourselves ultimately means having control over our own destinies.