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An Old English Proverb:
“A fool and his money are soon parted.”
Rooted in Bible passage Proverbs 21:20.
The author’s opinions below may be construed as satire. Nonetheless, they’d have a profound effect on the realities that Black people are facing every day concerning the accumulation of wealth and racism.
Have you ever contemplated the world’s general view (particularly among its most sophisticated classes, who are non-Black people)—that a “dumb Negro” who’s rich is likely akin to a vast culture of dumb Negroes who are rich, too? Seriously, it’s a dark stigma around Black people that, too often, has been reinforced by the broader media. Historically, America’s mainstream media is notorious for contributing to the “rich, dumb Negro” stigma that has crisscrossed God’s beautiful blue and green planet.
Considering any opinions you’ve established about the “rich, dumb Negro,” have you ever wondered how that insulting phenomenon, with its global effects, was manufactured in the first place? Perhaps one logical reason is that America’s media has racist proclivities about Black people and how they manage wealth. A worldwide ignorance has been engendered by the media’s negative coverage of Negroes. The ignorance often implies that regardless of social status and class, Negroes are essentially cut from the same proverbial and metaphoric cloth, and as a result, they lack the aptitude and intellectual acuity to effectively manage wealth as either individuals or a broader community. Therefore, rich Negroes have to always be self-conscious of their public and private mannerisms. That self-consciousness and awareness is critical because racist views will often be directed against them.
More importantly, “Negroes” have to eventually come to terms with this global phenomenon. One practical way to defend against it is for affluent Negroes worldwide to only use their influence and opulence to help enrich the brightest Negroes with acceptable moral standards. And of course, that initiative of enrichment should be irrespective of gender, social status, formal education, political or religious beliefs, skin tone (i.e., the “brown paper bag test,” etc.), or sexual orientation. All in all, Black people, worldwide, have to start working together in order to effectively combat the global effects of racism. There should be one clear-eyed view and united goal in mind: to help lift Black people from the historical economic ashes of racism that relentlessly seeks to destroy them.
Lastly, but no less important: try not to do dumb things that your family, friends, peers, and the public can hold against you. Rich or wealthy Negroes are all in the same boat. Compared to their White peers, their opulent status carries substantially less weight in a world that, in broader terms, looks down on them because of the racial group to which they belong. Also be advised that the world’s ruling classes would have fewer regrets about making the “rich, dumb Negro” rich because those material assets and monies may be easily taken back. It’s the brightest Negroes and their high moral standards that pose the greatest racial and cultural threats to the sheer darkness, longevity, and legacy of racism against Black people.
This may also interest you: “7 Black Millionaires They Tried to Erase from History”
Inset Photo By: Khalid Boutchich on Unsplash
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