Skip to main content

‘Opportunities’ Are A Part Of Systematic Racism As Well

 ‘Opportunities’ are a part of systemic racism as well. Let me Blacksplain. The lotto is called the poor tax because poverty is lack of opportunity. 

We pack the bottom half of every MLM (multi level marketing) venture from Amway to Prepaid Legal and every Sousou money system because the traditional bank loans, grants, allotments are off limits to us. 

Whenever gov’t sponsored business mandates come up, they find ways to nix us out of the running. 

And of course, pouring our energies in good faith into something that’s supposedly egalitarian but really isn’t is a major drain on our already depleted time and emotional resources. 

We casually talk about how Johnson publishing (Ebony, Jet) was started when a Black man, after asking for a loan for his business from 15 banks, goes back to the 1st one and gets it because he NOW says that he needs the money to go on vacation! 

We boast about how he managed to ‘beat the system’! But the HORROR that is so prevalent that we ignore it is that requesting a bank loan, finding a nice apartment when you have the money for it, a raise, a promotion, job security, equal treatment and walking on our block without being harassed by the people sworn to protect  and serve shouldn’t be like running a gauntlet, but it is for us! 

And this drain leaves us far more vulnerable to every ‘unorthodox’ rise to the top system or method that’ll have us. A dollar and a dream does not judge by a color line so we flock to it even though the odds are abysmal. 

And when we fail, they say ‘You see!’, and when we succeed they say ‘You see!’ Can’t wait ‘til we have our own media. Everything changes. 


P.S. You know, the lotto (or playing the numbers) used to be ours, where some of the proceeds would at least go to the neighborhood. But the mafia wrested it from us to fill their coffers, and when the gov’t busted up organized crime, made it state wide and national and not a soul can tell us where the proceeds go! 

And to speak on these evils is deemed violence and hate speech. Orwell would be proud!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERSUASION AND CONVICTION

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERSUASION AND CONVICTION Decades ago, in my teens, my oldest brother and I had a talk where I said, “Can you believe that they’re having another gay pride parade?” He told me that he participated in a gay pride parade. Then we just stared at one another - and because many don’t know how to communicate without language, I will translate: Me: (But you’re not gay) Him: (True, but our struggle is their struggle and theirs is ours) Me: (Hmmm. Now I have to rethink everything because this is my brother whom I love challenging my core beliefs). I was persuaded that day. Today, my brother is long dead but I’m still reposting. That’s called CONVICTION.
Post a Comment
Read more

WE DEAL WITH RACISM ON ALL FRONTS

WE DEAL WITH RACISM ON ALL FRONTS We deal with systemic racism on all fronts. We mentor; we start programs to protect our kids; we fire ALL of the white cops from elsewheres patrolling and brutalizing Black spaces who funnel in the drugs and the guns with impunity then lock up our kids for having (or using) them. And where do kids get guns for drive-bys? (Rhetorical) And do an inordinate amount of crimes occur in Black spaces in Baltimore and Detroit and L.A. as opposed to NY because Black folk in our city have more character and higher morals? (Also rhetorical) It’s because cops are not allowed to pump these things in here! We do have CHILD rape rings here which rival Florida, Texas and possibly even California (California is a dense, big state). We need to fire ALL of the white cops from elsewheres patrolling and brutalizing Black spaces! And regarding the white people and the Black folk who worship them who aid systemic racism through complicity, ignorance and arrog...
Post a Comment
Read more

SO WHERE’S THE UPROAR…?

 So where is the uproar when not one but two Black women world champions bow out from their sport because of the racist media for health reasons?  Their media of course focuses in on the “health reasons“ but we all know the truth!  Did Michael Jordan put a black tape over his mouth to stop speaking to the racist press for health reasons? Did Eddie Murphy only give interviews with Bryant Gumbel because of the racist press for health reasons? When we look at the interviews at the races press conducted with Mohammed Ally, they’re all about how he’s slowing down. No one mentions how our government took three years from him while he was in his boxing Prime! White people, boy! Can’t wait ‘til we have our own media. Everything changes.
Post a Comment
Read more