Black Thoughts 101 - April

Every month I'm going to write about what I've learnt and how I feel about issues that have taken place the previous month. As I've just started blogging, this one won't be very long but with give you a pretty good idea on the way my mind is working right now. With everything that has transpired over the last week, there is a desperate need for unity in the black race. I look at the death of Nispey and I think whats one of the main flaws that he has (No fault of his own) with the rest of the black leaders in history? That they are single leaders. What I mean by this is that they are men and women or are leading and pushing for causes to help uplift a race of people but it's being done with one person as the main figure. Malcolm X. The Most famous Spokesman of the Nation of Islam. A leader whose vision, words and intellect I admire more than any of black leader in history. This Man gave you a message delivered an agenda and challenged the way blacks lived, tried to create a mindset where in order for us to succeed we must help ourselves before we allow anyone else to help us. He was assassinated and that was it, the momentum of the nation of Islam was halted. Martin Luther King. Had an agenda. Integration. He delivered a message, created a following. Challenged and fought against Racism. He was murdered and his movement halted. Marcus Garvey, Hand a plan to have ships take blacks back to Africa. His ships were sabotaged, his mission aborted. I could continue to name more leaders but the point I'm trying to make is that its always one leader with one idea and once that leader is stopped we are back to square one. I hope what I'm seeing in regards to the death of Nipsey is a change. I'm seeing a lot more people understand now that we need to collectively form an agenda that no matter what we all have a similar goal and the same mission so that no matter what happens to the leaders of the groups, that cause will still carry on. I see this work with Jews, I see this work with Asians in the British communities, I see this work with Hispanics in the American communities and this is something I believe the black communities in western civilisations need to also create. Jewish communities are striving from Golders Green in London to Marcy in Brooklyn NY. Every major western city has a China town. We have black people from all over the world and every time we are in communities in the western world they are always "Ghettos". The ghettos were not even created for blacks they were originally for Jews during the Holocaust during the Nazi era and they manage to work their way out of it. Why haven't we? Why isn't there enough recognised successful black communities yet? could this be down to the lack of unity I mentioned? I think so. We need to work on the mind first? the fact of the matter is this,

not every black man and black woman is a king or queen

we can't all be athletes or musicians or doctors or lawyers. Some of us have to be working class and not feel ashamed that we're putting in that work cause we're doing it for a bigger cause. Right now we got a lot of people at the top of the social ladder and a lot of people at the bottom of the social ladder and not enough people in the middle to connect the two. There's such a disconnect because there isn't a blueprint that we abide by to progress as a race. We progress individually and don't feel responsible for what the next person does. If we did something as simple as acquiring property as families then that would make a big impact collectively. If we were willing to sacrifice space and live in a one family home as two families for both sets of families to be able to save up and afford to save for their own homes. If you have one mother and father or in our culture predominantly a mother and let's say, two kids. They reach an age where they work, the bills are split into 3 so each person is able to save up for their own deposits on a house then let just say those 3 meets partners doing the same thing,you just went from 2 sets of families living in council/public housing to 3 sets of couples living in 3 homes they all purchased. It can be as simple as that but we must work on the mindset. We must learn to live within our means. Stop being addicted to consumerism. Learn how to purchase a property. It is all attainable we just need to educate ourselves and make these things part of our culture, self-education, rehabilitation. These are the things we need to apply into our culture. I will add links for a book I believe will help with educating those who need it. If you have any books or youtube pages that you believe will help please leave them in the comments because that's what this is about, helping each other. As I mentioned before as I've just started blogging this one won't be long but it's a good intro to understand what direction we need to be going into. we need a blueprint that we can all go to when we wanna achieve a better life for ourselves, which at the same time creates a strong positive community that we are all working towards and this is for all black ethnicities across the world. We create a project that brings unity and collective participation then we can build a better future for our children. The marathon will continue and we will continue to honour Nipsey's legacy and achieve what he and all the other great leaders planned which is for our race to be able to stand up and feel just as respected as any other race or ethnicity.

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