I think we'd better off than we are...
I don't. And I doubt most people willing to risk everything on the table to prove it. I know I'm not, just keeping it real. Your point has merit, but we are generations off before we can "do it on our own" and Black Wall Street is proof that it can be taken away from us in one generation.
Keeping it real, let's call it. As black people, NOBODY likes us. There isn't a nation on this planet that is campaigning for us, we can't even go back to Africa without being outcasted. We get more props for being American than Black. Nations be like "

Ohhh you are American! Hurry and buy!" vs. "

Oh your black. Hurry and leave!"
As fukked up as America is and historically has been, we still live a better life here than 90% of the world and we even have small opportunities to rise up here. You think Russia or China ain't gonna do everything in their power to quell a young black man trying to build a life for himself there?

We aren't even unified here because the Capitalist mindset had nikkas always looking for a come up over another nikka. We will never have power over anyone until we offer things no other group can or the population distribution balances out. Our best bet is working on getting our numbers over 20% and making sure other minorities can up their numbers as well. we just need to get to a competitive percentage WHILE having skills to offer and then we will be forced to be respected and we can take it at our leisure. As long as our numbers are so low, we can and will be ignored and discarded. Hispanics are already getting ahead of us as far as that aspect and of course they are the ones most likely to be accepted.
We don't need to be enemies with other minorities but we need to make sure none of them surpass us completely or else we get moved further down the totem pole. I'd advocate us working together but even combined white people outnumber all minorities 2 out of 3. As long as the population split is that bad, we can risk another group jumping ship.