America’s mainstream media have not been so consistent or enthusiastic about speaking to matters concerning our nation’s “racial caste system“—or racism itself, which has for centuries and decades disproportionately afflicted African Americans and other minority groups. However, the media has no problem using its Negro anchors and journalists to marvel at the possibility of the world’s first trillionaire, Elon Musk.
I wonder how many African Americans, Black Americans, and/or all Negroes alike watched the tech billionaires (often referred to as “tech bros” or “tech elites” by America’s mainstream media) that recently visited the White House for a dinner engagement hosted by President Trump? At the dinner, the EMINENT Bill Gates commended Trump by saying, “Thank you for incredible leadership.” Another attendee, Sam Altman, stated to Trump, “Thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation president. It’s a very refreshing change.” My point is—how many Negroes were seated at the table? I saw “zilch,” “zero,” or “nada.” Of all the people seated or standing in the room, I saw one Negro standing near the entryway who appeared to have been either a waiter or service staff. A striking reminder of African Americans’ long, extraordinary, subservient, and violence-laden history in America.
The participants at the dinner were an assemblage of White people, Far East Asians, and South Asians. Not only did the assemblage of people recast a dark shadow over how racist Silicon Valley really has been toward welcoming Black people to the tech industry, but it also spoke to how tolerant African Americans and Blacks have been in allowing the behavior to endure. More importantly, it sends a resounding message to “intelligent Black people” who are often struggling with funding great ideas—about how rich Black people may be hiding their money behind racist corporations and political systems. As a result, they’ve been able to buy faster cars, bigger diamond necklaces, and multi-million dollar homes to stroke their egos. The latter is the silver lining, but at what cost to the collective ethnocultural resilience and prosperity of Black people? In my humble opinion, it seems African Americans won’t be able to rely on reparations to solve any portion of the racist wealth gap between White and Black Americans. Essentially, reparations to the descendants of African American slaves are viewed as a government handout by America’s White ruling class despite the abhorrent misdeeds of their ancestors.
However, what African Americans and Black Americans could do collectively is to redirect their trillion-dollar spending capacity toward Black-owned businesses. Also, we could insist on investing in Black-conceived ideas that are highly practical in nature. Wake up, Black America! Let’s fix our self-hate, ethnocultural investment fears, and lack of motivation to capitalize on our own ethnocultural genius. And finally, let’s fix our ignorance and gullible instincts to believe that things will get better. They won’t!
Perhaps when the aforementioned concerns are resolved, America’s mainstream media may be a lot more reluctant to employ Negro anchors and journalists to marvel at the possibility of the world’s first trillionaire, Elon Musk. Why? Because there would be fewer disadvantaged Negro news anchors and journalists around to marvel at Elon. Instead, they’d be working at a Black-owned cable news network and streaming service with extraordinary global reach, marveling at “Black geniuses” who are on the brink of becoming trillionaires.
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