HOW BLACK PEOPLE CAN STOP THE CYCLE OF US BEING MURDERED IN THE STREETS AND IN OUR HOMES – UNJUSTLY

Based on the history of how the police force came to be, it is clear that it is tasked with serving the same original purpose, and not evolved as we are lead to believe by the media as well as authorities. Police are in place to serve and protect the citizens as well as properties, but it is very clear that Black people are not included in that calculation but rather we are the people from whom the Whites and other non-blacks need to be protected.

Look at what is happening! Our people are being murdered at random and before we can recuperate from the horror of watching yet another one of our people unjustly murdered, we are hit with another, and another, and another, meanwhile the perpetrators are being rewarded with paid leave and immunity. No accountability!

So although they are ubiquitous in our communities and we can do nothing about it for now, the number one thing we can do – and each of us can pledge to do now – is to exclude the cops from our lives as much as possible, and that means not calling them at all.

Have you ever wondered why police can pretty much do whatever they choose to do to Black people and not be held accountable?

That’s because the laws were originally written to exclude us, and the amendments that were later made to include us, were not written sufficiently to include us fully.

So until Congress change the law or make an amendment to the amendment to include us fully, the cops will continue to do as they please – murdering us in front of our children, mother, father, sister, brother – it doesn’t matter who is present or who is trying to beg and plead and intervene on our behalf.

Someone once said, “A people cannot requisition change from a subservient position”. And so we have to continue to march, scream, protest, vote, and seek out advocacy for us – from White people as we have been doing. But we must add a major and vital piece to the puzzle, and that is, building an economic force in the Black community so we can have that to use as leverage to bring about the changes we seek and effect consequences if our demand for equality, equity, and justice are not met.

Yes, other communities are pouring money into politics and getting key decision-making people on their side, and our lack of pooled resources to contribute and influence change for our community, is what is fueling our demise. Yes, we must continue to do all that we have been doing in terms of marching, protesting, voting, and advocating for Whites and other Non-Blacks to intervene on our behalf, but we must also do these things:

1) Build an economic force by buying from Black owned businesses EVERY TIME we can, banking exclusively with Black owned banks, employing Black people if we are business owners, looking out for and offering Black people jobs that are available in Corporations if we are ever in charge of the hiring process.

2) Secure capital from the Black owned banks we supported so we can own those essential businesses we use on a daily basis within our communities. Some of those businesses being farming and manufacturing the products we use. (Will expound more on this in our upcoming book with the same title – Black Convergence – in the fall of 2021)

3) Secure capital to purchase and own the homes in our communities so we can keep building equity and allow our money to circulate for longer periods in our communities, instead of paying rent and having our monies taken out of our communities to White and other Non-Black communities.

4) Farm and manufacture surplus products so we can sell to other communities, creating an inflow of funds instead of an outflow, and employing our people en masse.

5) Pursue the buyouts of shares in major corporations.

6) Aggregate wealth and use some of the resources we pooled to ostensibly influence politics and politicians, including preparing and supporting some of our own to pursue politics, as well as lobby to have the mandate of the responsibility to police and protect our own communities.

These 6 things are the missing pieces to the puzzle that can help us get to a place where we command equality, equity, and justice – and escape the cruel grip of state-sanctioned brutality – and they have the potential to advance exponentially.

The sooner we get on board, the sooner we will be able to accomplish our goal of garnering that economic force that commands the change we have been seeking.

Stop saying “no, this is discrimination.” Other communities have been doing exactly this to the point where it’s not uttered, it’s just known and expected from each other. History has shown that we are a decent, kind, compassionate, honest, giving, and very considerate people, but we have to funnel those qualities towards each other in the Black community as our lives literally depends on us uniting and working as a unit to accomplish this huge life-saving goal so we not only survive but thrive.

Think about it! If a cop feels he needs a break from work but has already exhausted his entitled leave, all he has to do is to go murder a black person and tada – just like that, he has leave with pay. Murdering a Black person is rewarding for them! Now, if you are a cop who has no morals, what is going to stop you from taking advantage of this grand opportunity?

The laws on the books concerning us must be changed! It must be re-written or re-amended to include us fully – and equitably applied to all citizens.

Yes, laws are what humans put in place to control other humans. Anything can be written as a law! Slavery – as horrific as it was, was a law. And so as we are living in this
dysfunctional society we have to participate and do as other communities are doing which is doing everything in our power to position our community to survive and thrive.

So, solutions you ask? We took a look at how other non-Black communities are avoiding being murdered in the streets and in their homes – unjustly, and in a nutshell this is what we’ve found. They work together, accumulate wealth, rally their people to positions of power, invest in Corporations that influence politics, and influence politics.

This is our solution too!

We are way behind in terms of the wealth gap – no thanks to slavery, our ancestors wealth building efforts being thwarted, the resulting non-wealth inheritance being passed down, and the division and self-hate that have been intentionally engrained in us. But we must get started, and get started now.

We cannot continue to look helplessly on as our loved ones lives are snatched from them – unprovoked and unjustly.

We have to become economically empowered. There is no other way!

Racism has decimated us and lowered us to a position of “permanent underclass” where we can barely be seen, and never heard. It has permeated every area of our lives through the interconnectedness of its structure. Here is an excerpt from an article that articulates the system of racism and its inner workings against us:

After reading that excerpt you can tell the entire system is stacked against us Black people, and it’s going to take all hands on deck and a united mindset to dig ourselves out and get to a place where we can have leverage to effect consequences for all the woes set up in the system of racism against us. And the only thing we have in our arsenal to use against this system that has been so carefully crafted against us, is our collective resources pooled together which involves buying from Black owned businesses first, banking with Black owned banks exclusively, and employing each other first.

Yes, wealth building is a key area of struggle for us as a community and the lack of that wealth aggregate leaves us defenseless – as a people, in America (and the world at large). But we can fix that, and we must! Buying from Black owned businesses and Banking with Black owned banks will: a) help them to stay in business b) help them expand their businesses c) get more Black people employed d) allow for more money to be deposited in Black banks e) provide the resources so more Black people can start new businesses f) allow Black banks to have more money to invest in us and our community g) provide us with the economical force to use as leverage to command the change we seek for our community – politically and otherwise, and effect consequences to the horrific way in which we are treated here in America (and other places in the world) if our demand for equality, equity, and justice are not met.

If you’ve been following the federal loans and grants that was set aside for small businesses because of the pandemic and consequently the shutting down of the economy, you know that only 5% of Black owned businesses were approved for those loan grants. According to a survey by The Center for Responsible Lending, 95% of black business owners were denied funds from the Paycheck Protection Program which was launched by the federal government to help such business owners. What happened? You guessed. The people who were tasked with distributing those loan grants, were predominantly non-black, and systemic racism gets to play out here – again. Black business owners were excluded! In addition, surveys have shown that only 3% of loans distributed by banks in 2019 went to Black business owners. And if that is not enough to make us think “group economics”, it is estimated that 40% of Black owned businesses will close their doors permanently in 2020 due to the shutdown and lack of funding. So, us Black people seeking out and supporting Black owned businesses first before going anywhere else will help sustain those businesses so they can remain in business and continue to improve our community’s economic power – via the savings those businesses will bank with Black banks.

If we all bank Black, then the Black banks will be able to have enough money in their possession to grant us loans as needed so we can finally access the capital necessary to own more properties and businesses and build up an economic force. As mentioned above, Non-Black banks are not loaning a significant number of us business loans, and so we have to make loans a possibility for us by putting our savings in Black banks which will – without hesitation – grant us the loans we need to advance our economy.

The more Black people employed, the higher the probability that more of us will live better, but most importantly, is the possibility that more money will be poured into Black banks as Black people begin to have more to save.

We don’t have the luxury of doing one thing at a time. We have to attack everything that is coming at us from all different directions – simultaneously. Some of us are going to be working on different elements of our causes at varying times (as is happening now with the marches, protests, and advocacy for Black lives), but what we all must work on together constantly – is buying Black, banking Black, and putting Black first when we are in positions to make changes that can help our cause such as, seeking to hire Black people for available positions in a Firm – first.

One of our very own scholar Dr. Claud Anderson, has been advocating for Black people to put each other first for decades. He developed principles and strategies to counter racism’s effect on us, and laid out a guide for Black America to become a more economically and politically competitive group in America in his book PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America.

We don’t have time to procrastinate. We must act now! Our people are being unjustly murdered and we are clearly on our own with no governmental assistance to protect us.

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