The problem is poor blacks don't believe in personal accountability.
Poor blacks did before the civil rights era ended.
I'm not giving cacs a pass at all. I'm just the type to acknowledge all sides of the situation.
Even "educated" blacks or those trying to become educated are moving wrong. Look at how the biggest group of people fukking with them for profit scam colleges being black folks. There's articles saying that more blacks are going to college BUT are going for those liberal arts/caring degrees that won't get you paid in this economy.
Other cultures are pushing their kids into engineering, tech, bio, and medical. We're happy tarkisha wasted four years to be a social worker.
This is true. So many Black people are studying worthless stuff in college and racking up a crazy amount of debt.
Most of those students would be better off learning a trade, taking out a small business loan and starting a business.
Unless you are going to school to study STEM, education, pre-med, pre-law, economics, building construction, architecture, agriculture, nursing, etc., you are really wasting a lot of time and money.
We have far too many sociology, psychology, mass communications, etc. majors in the Black community. No disrespect to the brehs and brehettes with those degrees, but we have enough. We don't need any more of those.
It's almost like we need a running inventory of Black talent across the nation.
Once we see the gaps, we can send students on "nation missions" to these colleges. In other words, if we see we need more Black building construction companies for the Black nation, let's setup scholarship funds to incentivize Black students to pursue that major.
Not enough Black male teachers in Baltimore? Easy. Let's fund full-tuition scholarships for a decade at the public universities in the DMV targeted at Black males who want to study education.
This stuff isn't rocket science. We don't have future-looking leadership (economists, technologists, etc.) guiding the Black community. We have reactive leadership (preachers, entertainers, etc.) that spends too much time rolling in the mud with cacs, fighting every little battle.
We definitely need folks fighting those battles. But, it shouldn't be the leadership at the top. That leadership should be focused on strategies to move the people forward, not hopping on CNN every time someone says the n-word or someone gets shot.
That's one of the ways cacs keep us stuck. They know our top-level leadership is reactionary and gets distracted easily. They know our community is messianic and ebbs and flows with the reactionary leaders.
We should have the activists putting in work and the strategists putting in work, simultaneously. They shouldn't be the same people.
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