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In good conscious, I really can't speak on this particular topic directly...considering that I only voted once in my life, back on November 4, 1980. It was my first time being eligible to vote, just 9 years prior, the 26th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 1, 1971. It lowered the voting age to 18. I was in my 4th year of college at Grambling State University. I realized that the "Majority Culture" was done with post civil rights knee-grows. 10 years of allowing us spooks to move-on-up like George and Louise was the limit. Time to put is back in our place. When the Republican rep came to campus, I tried to get other students to meet with her, just so we could possibly get something out of them. Naw, everybody was locked in on Jimmy. My position was that Ronnie was going to win regardless if all or none of the "Black" electorate voted for Jimmy. By 1984, it was clear, all "us folks" could do was complain. Then everything went downhill fast. The incarceration State that cool brotha' Ronnie promised, came to be a reality. Magically sherm, angel dust, then crack flooded our neighborhoods. _Factually speaking,_ Between 1979 and 1990, the number of blacks as a percentage of all persons admitted to state and federal prisons increased from 29 to 53 percent. Yep, in just 10 years from that election. In 1980 there were 143,000 black men in jail or prison, but 463,700 enrolled in colleges or universities. By 1999, just 19 years later, there were *791,600 black men in jail or prison* and 603,032 enrolled in colleges or universities. A 20-year plan that was set forth by an election, executed flawlessly, created an _Extinction Level Event_ for "Black" males, and thus the "Black" community. So I agree with your sentiment, for reasons likely other than your own. Correct me if I'm wrong (as I often be's), but by NOT voting Dem this cycle, this is making a statement that "our" vote - at least your vote - can no longer be taken for granted. And the Dem's will learn the hard way. Kinda' like "Tuff luv? Like in the next cycle, them Dems gonna give "us" our props? You didn't articulate any long-term strategy whatsoever, so I take it that this is simply a punishment? A time-out for the Dem party? If so, good luck with that. My position is the same, but permanently for the past 44-years (11 presidential cycles). But mine isn't some fervid big pay-back, I don't vote for _Nobody,_ regardless of what letter is in front of their names. Because I think I have seen the writing on the wall...for decades. Both parties, who are owned by the same ruling Caste, continue to execute the 1980 strategy. Ya' Boi Biden promised knee-grows that he would change the way policing is done...specifically in response to so many high profile street 'erasures' by cops of "Black" males. Fast forward 3.5 years, and the FACTS show the number of police deletions has actually _Risen._ So much, that police are running out of "Black" males to delete. Now they are deleting helpless "Black" Women/mothers in their own homes. Sista *Sonya Massey* was put down like a rabid dog on Masters Plantation. And knee-grows still think there is some reason for hope in America...if they just vote.

I don't vote at all.. Work on saving your soul.. Be a light to this world...

None of em ain't it. None of em is gonna do anything for black people. You have to do for yourself.

Because you want to become slaves again? This ain’t the one to bail on.

The D Party is a complete mess. No Prep for the Future, no vision…

Interesting take on Biden and the dem party. Do you have a four to ten year vision of our federal government that you aspire to with this strategy?

🌟Big Facts! Im an Independent and haven’t voted for the Dems in years. They’re not for the BC and all FOS!💯

It seems every four years the choices get worse.

I make up my own mind period. I don't need a talking head to speak or vote for me. Thank you.

Black people made decisions in the past that negatively affect us today, Reality is Undefeated. Hey. I"m back. And I'm back. And I'm back and I'm watching you. I'm seeing you. That is half the battle right? Getting seen. That is what it is all about......... I like what I see. I can relate to the thing you said about college. I definitely thought my life was going to be different. I sacrificed a lot for my degree. Time, girls, friends and money. Put my life on hold for it. Got my degree and then 4 years later enlisted in the army just to survive and pay my bills. I don't knock college. I probably just chose the wrong degree for me. But actually, it didn't work out that bad. Money wise, I'm making exactly what I would have been making if I was working in my field. Right now I work for the post office. My degree was in Mass Communications/ Broadcast Journalism. Local news reporters make about what people make at the post office. Very cool. Very cool. You did a good job with this one. Great video! I am and I continue to be a proud subj7scriber to your channel. I am and I continue to be. Hopefully I look familiar to you. I want you to recognize me as a returning person to your stuff. I am an advocate on this platform for engaging with others and supporting one another. And returning love and reciprocating feedback. I think that kind of community on here is what we need. If there were more people like me, you might have an extra 2,000 fans and friends to your channel; right now. Extra. I truly am being sincere when I write that. I am a content creator, just like you. Let me get half the battle too. Let me know that you see me. Who knows you might even like one of videos there.

Men have been called dusty for years and when we respond with truth we’re bashing. I love bw but accountability is needed for change.

Guilty People respond defensively, believes everything is about them, and take zero accountability. The majority of people who look like us complain about everything, yet do nothing to change any of it because changing things requires work. Being ratchet, raunchy, and rah rah is fun.

Needed this

This is a blatant lie

We’re gonna practice hatred and unforgiveness towards each other until we’ve self-destructed. It took about 400 yrs, but I guess the strategy of divide and conquer finally worked.

THE WORD SHOULD BE- AFFECT- NOT EFFECT!!!

Unfortunately,in the black community they want their children to feel that way because they thought it was protecting them from being rebellious even it is hurting them 🥺

WE should start at the Top... Black men have been mistreated for centuries ... They are still here.. all that is needed is a HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS...

Black Americans still don't know their true history, so without a PAST, it was necessary to invent one for them.

People do the same things the same way because they have been: PROGRAMMED.

This is a topic we aren’t supposed to go into. I’ve been accused of hating bw for speaking up about being mistreated by mother. Even family who knew specifically what was going on, will make excuses, meanwhile they dog my father out for his shortcomings with no issue. Then you have the issue where we have this weird tendency as a community to believe the bare minimum, if you’re lucky to get that, is acceptable. Neglecting health, mental health, school etc etc but you fed them right? So that makes you a good parent deserving of being put on a pedestal

I'm 71. Yes, I grew up mostly in the North. When I was a young boy, pimps, hustlers and racketeers were idolized more than black men who had "square" jobs. Ron Oneal, "Superfly," came from my neighborhood. So did Don King. There was a mentality that permeated "the hood" that it was okay for a young man to father a child, "because the state would provide support for her and their children, leaving him free to get his hustle on. Many thought punching a clock was for chumps. Trappings of wealth, driving a fashionable car and wearing what my father called "Negro clothes" was more important than real wealth. Some of my closest friends only saw their fathers once or twice during their entire childhood. This attitude was not universal. There were "squares" who went to work in the steel mills, auto plants and the postal service. I was a square. I worked and earned a college education. I remember the civil rights movement. I remember the riots in 1966. Our young men looted and burned white businesses in our neighborhoods. I remeber MLK coming to visit my neighborhood and my school. These neighborhoods largely remain devoid of places to shop or work even today. I saw how difficult it was for a Black business to exist without getting robbed and it's owners killed. Somehow, the Arabs made ago of it for a while but they get robbed and killed too. But, now gentrification is moving us out. I lay much of the blame for the problems of the inner cities on welfare. If young men didn't expect the state to assume their responsibilities, they would be less likely to abandon their children. If a father was around, young boys would be less likely to impregnate and then abandon their daughters. Some of us deserve grace. Some of us don't.

First people accuse Black women of choosing a welfare check OVER having a Man in the home. From a far it may appear like that But that was Not the whole story. It is true the original way the welfare system was constructed made it a "violation" to own certain things or for a women receiving to have a "Man" (husband, boyfriend, etc.) in the home many of these rules were designed to "program" Black People into Poverty For instance a women on welfare could not own a Washing Machine, a Blender, a Radio or a Record Player, if you owned a TV you had to have a receipt to show how much it cost. It was beyond ridiculous - BUT Black Communities in those times PULLED TOGETHER TO OVERRIDE those "restrictions" Black People figured out clever ways to Hide so-called "forbidden" Appliances Black Husbands and fathers learned how to Hide their presence from "Welfare Inspectors" Black Men often married Black women were PROUD to take on the "Crown" of being called Husband and Father. Black Men were more than happy to come in and provide - Why - They often were able to live almost Rent-Free that women's welfare check took care of essentials and that Black Father/Husband/Boyfriend could fill in the "gaps" without spending his entire check! It was a symbiotic and MUTALLY BENEFICAL Relationship for Everybody and it went on for decades. Many Black Men AND Black Women Loved and Respected Each other was it "Perfect"! NOPE - But It was 1 billion times better than what we have today Many People dont know this but during the 1950's to the 1970's Black People had the LOWEST DIVORCE RATES of any group in this country. The Three major forces that destroyed Black Communities across this country: Feminism, Oprah and Crack... The success of the Civil Rights Movement and Getting a Welfare "County Check" had nothing to do with the Downfall of the Black Family and the Downfall of Black Communities that quickly followed.

Y’all still spreading that lie

NEGRO, PLEASE!!!!! You have pissed this old woman off!!! You are too young, with your proper self to know anything about my momma and daddy survived in this white man’s world.

This young man looks to be somewhere between 35-45. What he doesn’t seem to know is a system that was DESIGNED to destroy black families…. To pit mother against father… and father against mother. More often than not a mother had to make the decision to receive Welfare, now called public assistance to feed her children. How easy it is for some upstart to take the moral high ground when he never lived in a time when black men had to sometimes leave the state to find work. I’m almost 75. I remember those times. My parents had 8 children. My father worked hard (always did) . The rule was that a husband couldn’t remain in the home if the children are receiving welfare. …Even though the dad was seeking employment. That single rule FRACTURED families. I remember. My ancestors built this decaying morally corrupt empire for evil white people. Don’t talk to me about grace in the same breath seemingly to condemn black women… just stop talking.

Wry young uninformed talker

I would have never guessed and actually doubt that you are not part of the talented tenth. You are clearly highly intelligent, articulate, and motivated. (ie Talented). You epitomize what happens when the Talented Tenth is informed and awakened. Talented Tenth is about the 90th percentile in aptitude rather than social economical strata. Keep up the excellent work.

Facts!

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The prevailing "Theory" is that we *_Objectively_* consider the outcomes of our, and others past decisions - AKA: HISTORY. A postmortem Forensic examination to determine _Cause & Effect:_ Critically identify the direct relationship between a past action or event and its consequence or result, so we can _Learn_ and apply this knowledge to future decisions. What's commonly known as the “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” antidote. I like to say "Those that _Choose_ to ignore historical recurrence - the repetition of same events - deserve exactly what they get. Some famous scientist said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and again, with the expectation of a different outcome. At what point does Grace end, and encouraging insanity begin? I totally get it. I agree. The Civil Rights movement seemed like a good idea at the time, at least on its face. The civil rights movement was a social movement to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country. An attempt to shame the power-holding majority culture into behaving like compassionate and fair humans. Again, my favorite line: Taking a case for victimization to the very criminal who perpetrated the victimization...and expecting justice. Factually speaking, it was the *Great Migration* OUT of the South <-- an action "we" did that didn't require "us" to beg the majority culture for _Anything,_ --> that starved the Southern capitalist of cheap, exploitable labor. The culture of the South was forced to alter its violent ways, so when you bring up the question of "how long would it have been before those logs stopped floating in the river", the history is clear, the FACTS are immutable (I love Facts, especially the facts that show "HIS-Story" to be a lie): As "we" _Migrated_ out of the South, the lynching's quickly decelerated to almost nothing, waaaay before there was such a thang as a MLK protesting and singin' "we shall overcome". FACT source: famous-trials.com/sheriffshipp/1084-lynchingsyear "We" inadvertently dropped an economic nuke on America with our feet. So no, contrary to what the American education system and media has tried to brainwash us with, it wasn't out of the kindness of their humanity that they made some minor accommodations, it was because their agricultural businesses became a lot less profitable. It was "our" action of *OUT MIGRATION,* and this action alone, that forced the hand of the capitalist to finally change "some" of the laws in terms of civil rights equality...ya know, like the right to finally vote... in 1964. I further submit, that the religious handkerchief-head house knee-grows were artificially installed as "leaders" and puppeteered by the ruling Caste during the 1960's - just like they have done in other Countries. It's their M-O. Then they added the bait "we" just, couldn't, resist: the _Implicit_ Promise of dignity by no longer being considered 3/5 human or 2nd class citizens. Hummm... I recently learned some more history. During the American Revolution, George Washington's Continental Army made a deal with Black slaves in Rhode Island (Why is it we blindly accept the thinking that slaves were only in the Southern States???) . ..anyway, the deal was that if Black Slaves fought for the colonies against the British to victory, then they would no longer be slaves, and be given their FREEDOM. The Black Male Slaves believed in the sincerity of the men making the promises. After these Black slaves fought and died for the fledgling nation, and the revolutionary war was won by the United States... these remaining Men were returned to their former slave owners. The "promise" was a lie back in 1776. Its a lie now. These men died as slaves. I look back on _Their_ decision with grace. But almost 200 years later, with respect to civil rights, "we" again got suckered by an _Implicit_ Promise. Are things better overall for "us"? Yes. Are things better overall because of the humanity, compassion and generosity of the majority culture? NO. Things are better for "us" *_BECAUSE of "US"_* Because "we" organically migrated out of the South. Because about half of "us" took matters into our own hands, and took ACTION at the individual level. Because we didn't grovel on our knees and beg no one. The other half of "us," who chose not to Migrate Out of the South during that period? I have no "Graceful" words for them. Just Pity. They deserved whatever they got - and lucky for them, they also benefited from the Out Migration.

Welfare for white folk was bootstraps and laces for us it was for the destruction of family.

I wish I could remember the documentary but Black women didn’t give up their men the men where put in a situation where they couldn’t take care of family so the men urged the women to take the housing while low key living there until caught.

Keep speaking these truths 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Nobody with a reasonable mind can argue that blacks, to put it mildly, have been treated unfairly since being enslaved. The only people treated worse have been the original occupants of this country. Hell, the Buffalo Soldiers even helped slaughter them. No one has clean hands in this country. I agree life is about decisions. However, some decisions people make are bad on their face. anyone thinking that a degree in Art History or Music Appreciation or Theater Dancing is going to make them a living let alone pay back student loans is foolish. I should have graduated college in 1977 but it took me 1987. Bad decisions. Not terminally bad. I didn't have to work for the state. Musings from the peanut gallery. Keep on with your good work.

Nice video. Overall how was your 2020?

This is appreciated even when no one is listening or giving credence to the message.🥂

"...makes enough money in his work boots to _Not_ have to wear Tap Shoes." <-- That's some cold blooded shit right there. Profound. And true. I'm honored you spent a minute responding. I'm not going to comment further until you get Sister Kellie Carter Jackson's Book: We Refuse, in your hands and read it. I think Sista' (unintentionally) Mediates most of our differences in a way that only a *Black Woman* can. Initially, I was going to gift the physical book, as there was no audio-book. Then I was informed the audio-book would be available July 8 - and you had mentioned you prefer audio-books. But now, I believe a Physical book will be better, as books like this (Isabel Wilkerson's, and others) are _Reference Archives._ Not a story one listens to once, but a resource one goes back to over and over again. So check your email please.

Wow, where to begin. I for one as a AOWM am delighted to hear you speak because I your message is so true. I blame (mostly) LBJ's war on poverty and his Great Society for the disintegration of the black family. I believe young black ladies can make young black men do much better than they think they can do. "You want to be with me? You straighten up and fly right." And mean it. I have read on Malcolm X. A very intelligent man. His teachings, so radical in the 60's seem "duh" today. I am going to opine there were three fazes of his life. The first, his criminal life. The second, under Elijah Mohammad. And the third when he returned from Mecca a totally changed man. I with he had lived to continue to help those who would accept his help. Are you advocating a total separation of blacks and whites? If you are I will cease commenting since I am not your audience. And I will leave you with this bit of wisdom of age. It never hurts to hear reasonable disagreement.

All true brother

ALL PARENTS ARE EQUALLY EVIL AND SELFISH........KIDS DONT OWE ANYTHING BUT BORN TO SUFFER...PAY TAX....SICKNESS DEATH

What video is he talking about?

Man when them dudes start talking about cash reparations I stop listening. If anyone has even a basic understanding of economics they will immediately realize cash reparations for 40 million people would be pointless. If they give any significant amount of money it would cause inflation. You remember how those little $2000 checks cause the price of everything to explode? First it would immediately change hands out of our community because we don’t own anything. Therefore everything we buy would benefit another community. Second, the inflation caused by printing money would leave the vast majority of us in a worse position than before the reparations. When that money runs out and eggs are $11 you would end up worst off than before.

Stay strong brother and continue to stand on business.

Only delusional people think reparations is a thing. Move on, quit promoting trash culture, get education on money....

There's a term for what he is talking about, but I can't say it here

Saving my seat to watch later💺

Bro keep Doing yo thang a lot of these Mfs not deep enough to understand what you are saying they’re to shallow, I roc wit u Bro!

I had been exposed to the term FBA a short time ago reading through comments of another video. I too had to look it up, then just made a mental note to connect the acronym to what a heretical movement uses as shorthand for "real and authentic" Americans of African slave ancestry. But Tether was totally new to me. Evidently, there is a big conspiracy of peoples of African ancestry, but not of American slave ancestry who have gotten together, to do something. I'm not sure exactly what, prolly stick their undeserving hands in "our" upcoming reparations honey pot , but whatever it is, they up to no good. Brother Gatewood, you're laughing, but this showcases a conclusion I have reached not too long ago; There is no "us". There is no "we". There is no "Black community". How can one advocate for a group of people, when the group can no longer be generally defined as "Black". YOU have others accusing YOU of not being "Black", or at least the right-kind-of Black. Demanding to see your "papers", your _Pedigree._ These too are "Black folks" ... perpetuating the Crab Barrel stereotype for all to witness. I wanted to get up to speed on what I will call "Black Reparationist". This current group has self-appointed leaders, and although reoperations for slavery have been formally requested since 1793, these people think this is a new solution. Accurately described as _"Demagogues,"_ these types seek support by appealing to the desires, fears, and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument, while accusing moderate and thoughtful opponents of weakness, *_Impurity,_* or disloyalty. Black Reparationist are far more dangerous to the "Black community Proper," as some have risen to cult-leader status. Much like Rev. Ike, they promise riches beyond imagination, which in turn renders their followers functionally castrated of real action. This has been my point all along. The collapsing Empire suffering End-stage capitalism will present with simultaneous convulsions of many kinds. Reparationist are just one symptom. Another symptom? --> *Mass Denialism* Based on last nights "Presidential debate", America is without question now, in a state of Mass Denialism. Two geriatric why.te Men, that aren't even qualified to be the President of a 6th grade elementary school class, are presented to the so-called democracy as the ONLY choices for "leaders of the free world". One a narcissistic convicted criminal, and the other clearly suffering from dementia. And "Americans" desperately want to beleive things are still good. This is surreal. The "unsinkable" Titanic is listing badly to her port bow, water has flooded all lower decks, the gash in the hull can be seen from the topdeck, the generators have stopped working... and "Black people" are happy to be playing in the band. Not even _Trying_ to find a life jacket. But anticipating their reoperations "paycheck" at the end of the cruise. Would you like to revisit the "out-migration" solution again now??