Deeper version: Black men are being blamed because we are the easiest to blame.
It's just a byproduct of a larger issue. We are the easiest to blame because we don't have the social and financial infrastructure to establish a narrative that commands respect. This is collectively OUR fault and until we can take responsibility for it, we will never truly prosper or be respected.
Taking responsibility does not mean we are to blame. It just means we have to recognize the situation that exists and give ourselves the ABILITY to RESPOND (responsibility) to it.
Like on some REAL shyt... black men lost the war against white supremacy... period.
- Black men in Africa lost when they sold other black men women and children in the slave trade. Black men in Africa lose when they lost the colonization wars against Britain Belgium France Spain Portugal and Italy.
- Black men in the Caribbean and Americas lost when their towns were destroyed. When they were held in slavery. When we accepted that we had to speak English, French, Spanish or some European nation and worship a European designed god or operate in a Eurocentic society.... we LOST.
No one will ever respect black people until we have an established black NATION that is competitive with other nations on a global economic scale.
Until black men control our own industries; whether it be film, finance, banking, natural resources, media, advertising, technology, oil, agriculture, engineering etc. we will be to blame for shyt that goes wrong.
We can't operate on the bullshyt; "Bu bu bu White Supremacy doesn't give us a chance!" excuse that somehow is supposed to validate or excuse our inability to control the narrative.
If black men were WINNING we would be supreme. WE would dictate the prices of gas and a gallon of milk. WE would dictate what kind of content shows on television. WE would decide what is beautiful and what is not on our own accord.
IJS.
"We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their failure and blame others [like black men] for it."
Paul Kagame