Why Love Supreme?
The time to stand has come. Enough is enough! The majority of communities in this country (excluding the Black community) possess large blocks of business owners that serve the needs of their respective communities. Starting their own community businesses allows business owners to provide for their families and build generational wealth for the years to come. A dollar spent in the community, circulates more than five times before it leaves. This practice exhibits valuable community buy-in and support that operates in trust.
This country continues to encourage and assist in the division of Black people and Black communities. Whether it was selling our slave ancestors and separating them from their families, adopting Jim Crow laws to maintain inequality, redlining and discriminatory targeting, or flooding our neighborhoods with crack while passing crime bills to arrest us for selling the crack. Black people have been targeted and abused time and time again. Today Hollywood uses media such as music, TV, film and advertising. They have created a world for Black people and it consists primarily of hip hop and sports, a shallow existence serving corporate interest. They won’t show Black people operating outside of this box. Large amounts of our music and screen media promote Black hate. Even Black R&B artists have ceased singing about Black love. The “Gangsta” persona was previously a fraction of our cultural identity, but now it’s used to label Black people under one ignorant banner. During the 90’s, stories of drug dealing and being a professional criminal were reserved for rap artists. Currently, in the majority of popular Black media, these are the occupations of choice. Characters deemed to be successful Black men are drug dealers or former drug dealers struggling to turn straight, in addition to being baby-daddies to various women. Shows with leading Black women are often about working professionals with no family, who sleep around with various men under the guise of women’s empowerment.
Black families are also under attack. Today’s media only presents strongly bonded Black love in interracial and same sex relationships. Whenever a Black man and Black woman are in a relationship, strife, fighting and infidelity are the main storyline. If being a husband is a part of a role that a Black man portrays, he only receives the persona of a clean-cut working professional if he is married outside of his race. Rarely do we see shows featuring a strong Black husband and father in the Black home. To that end, there is a constant attack on Black masculinity.
Just as the music industry refuses to promote conscious rap, Hollywood refuses to finance shows that offer the best of Black people and Black families. This country hates the idea of intelligent Black people, It loathes Black pride and despises Black love. Almost everything with Black talent that Hollywood offers Black people to watch and consume is centered around drug dealing, infidelity, gang banging, violence and murder. Watching today’s programming would lead someone to think Black people can’t be around each other for more than three minutes without violence.
When we aren’t killing each other on screen, it’s wall-to-wall hip-hop based reality TV shows. From manufactured relationship drama; to audition shows with upcoming artists trying to make it in the business, we are portrayed as if hip hop is our whole life. Hollywood continues to box in Black youth with the idea that they have three available career paths: criminal dealings, sports or hip hop. Our youth is taught if you have entrepreneurial dreams, you must sell drugs to raise the capital.
Black hate is a profitable business. It fills prisons to provide near-free labor to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, which in turn produces an economy based on that subjugation. There are so many occupations and careers that are attached to the administration of Black people. Black hate fuels the music business as executives, A&Rs and CEO’s make millions of dollars promoting the “Black hate” agenda. Thousands of young Black lives have been lost because of their agenda. Their agenda has stopped us from rebuilding a united community. The hate agenda stifles Black working professionals such as agents, attorneys, accountants, financial planners and managers and it keeps them from being granted the same confidence and trust from black millionaires that other races receive. Black hate stops Black investors from providing capital to young Black entrepreneurs by encroaching upon our credibility. Black hate stifles Black pride; as a result, young Black people find value in designer clothes, shoes, cars, jewelry and gold teeth instead of buying commercial property and building businesses that will allow them to enhance their communities.
Black hate leads Black people to have little tolerance for each other. The smallest discomfort or disagreement can lead to violence of the highest magnitude. Meanwhile, Black people exercise great patience and restraint when dealing with people of other races. We show extreme forgiveness for some of the most heinous infractions.
Black people are being indoctrinated to never fight the system. Even when a Black athlete or entertainer tries to stand up, take a knee or call for unity against a corporation, a league, or an industry, the individual never gets to bring the fight to the system because the indoctrination of Black hate kills the movement. We never have a chance to take our fight to the top because we fight each other first at the bottom.
Last, we must be careful of this new push for black individualism. Hollywood’s latest talking point is that black people are not monolithic people. They use coded phrases in commercials and target shows exclusively to our young black generation. In these commercials they tell black people to embrace their creativity and feel free to express themselves. Sounds good right? But anytime there’s a strategy exclusively for black people, there is an agenda. In the meantime they are constantly underfunding schools, causing many black kids to give up on education. And they strategically use music to promote drug taking as an escape, or drug selling as an occupation, and show limited options for young black people. They have pushed individualism on our hip hop artists and professional athletes, both of which are very colorful influences on our young minds. We are seeing millions of young black kids struggling in our education system, always high, covered in face and neck tattoos, imitating the young millionaire lifestyle. What these kids see as individual expression, the world sees as unemployable, uneducated and threatening. With the few blacks that make it in sports or entertainment, individualism removes them from any unity and community responsibility. It fosters the idea, you made it on your own, and you have no accountability to any group. So opportunities start and stop with said individual. They are correct, black people are not monolithic people. But this push for individualism is clearly a new ploy by Hollywood to rewrite black characters in film and tv with no boundaries; to promote black musical artist with very little morals; and most important, to get ALL Black people to march to a different beat, rendering us powerless.