While I got your point as this shyt Kyrie is quoting is bullshyt, my reaction is to the cacs.
My thing is, we’ve got real live information out here that can be used without loud mouths behind a microphone telling us what’s what. People like Carter G. Woodson or Amos Wilson could give you far more compelling answers with regards to the plight of Black folks today and they’ve long since passed.
To me, the issue is that actually doing your own research and having it challenged in genuine intellectual discussion is a lot more difficult/mystifying than the shyt we got going right now. It’s a lot like working out. Sure, everybody wants a beach body but it’s a tiny percentage that are actually willing to do the work.
A lot of us would be well served by truly learning from Brother Malcolm’s life. He’s the best example that Black people have of a man that is able to grow and have intellectual honesty. He bought into NOI doctrine hook, line, and sinker because much of what was being said could actually be corroborated by the savage behaviors of white people. But in the end, he realized the Yakub story was bullshyt, and the man/org. he held in such high regard that he was able to shun his own younger brother after being excommunicated only to have his older brother then betray him, was nothing more than a group of snake oil salesman taking advantage of Black people looking for answers to their problems.
It was by sheer luck that the NOI stumbled upon Malcolm and even Farrakhan to an extent. Many of today’s new Black religious movements like the Hebrew Israelites don’t have that same luxury. Not to mention, for all of the NOI’s faults they still had a somewhat African centered position whereas the Hebrews aren’t as such.
I say all this to say that all opinions aren’t equal especially if they aren’t from a place of real research. I’m African/Black first, I don’t need nor care for using the Jewish story because our story is far more valuable. We were here before the Torah existed so why does my liberation story have to involve Jewish people? Wasn’t no maroons praying to Adonay or Elohim but this supposed to be what frees us?