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The next step in the goal to achieve self-reliance is to have as many black people venturing into business within their community as possible. Note if we look around our communities we see all other minorities getting wealthy from our dollars. They provide a service or have some kind of business that we support.  Yet still they do not support our community. They bleed our communities of its wealth through their businesses and contribute nothing in return. They disrespect us if we comment on their lack of support to our communities. At days end they flee our communities to the suburbs where they live a comfortable privilege life. The Koreans have taken hold of nail shops and produce groceries. The Dominicans have taken over the black beauty care.

Our Goal should be to create business here in the United States and to expand our businesses throughout the Black diaspora. Why you asked, because we must regain economic power here in America and throughout the Black diaspora. In America there is a habit of destroying black owned businesses by whites. To guarantee the survival of your business and preferable your business should be a manufacturing business of something essential to daily life you should expand your business to black nations around the world. Many of these countries have built economic zones or parks providing a low wage educated workforce. Many have invited foreign investors to manufacture their products in such areas.  In so doing if the powers be in the USA decide to target your business within the borders of the US you could survive based on your company’s expansion to foreign markets.  

We have allowed ourselves to be brainwashed by white supremacy. The Negro Leagues no longer exist because we bought into the idea of integration. The Negro league has dissolved into just a memory of a bygone era when we were separated and unequal but had to do for ourselves. We had our own businesses then. We owned our own supermarkets, stores, real estate’s agencies, laundromats, pharmacies, restaurants, etc. We were self-reliant because the laws of Jim Crow prevented us from shopping in white owned stores, eating in white owned restaurants. We had to create a parrel business community within our neighbourhoods so as to survive.

One of those was The Negro leagues. It was a baseball league with black owners and black players. They competed with Major League baseball, and when they played each other they often defeated the Major leagues teams. But we bought into the idea that what is white is superior to what we created. The stars of the Negro Leagues were snapped up in the integration of Major League Baseball. So, did many of our businesses when integration became the law of the land. Soon our supermarkets became bankrupt as whites move theirs into our communities with lower prices and black people supporting them instead of remaining loyal to theirs. We were force out of business. So, went our businesses the way of the Dodo bird.

We have seen the destruction of our business base in Tulsa Oklahoma (Black Wall Street) as well as the white community destroying our business by building infrastructure over them.  Our businesses based has long dried up and hardly any African Americans play on Major league teams anymore, we are being killed by KKK men dressed in blue, we now debated the benefits of integration.  

It is a constant, its reliable, you can guarantee it. Yes, in Sacramento, California, another police shooting of an unarmed black man. This time they went on his grandmother’s property and gunned him down. They fired twenty rounds six hitting him in the back, one in the side, one in the leg. In Austin, Texas a mad bomber was terrorizing the Black community. He left in his wake two deaths, and two injuries. These were both hate crimes. The bomber eventually blew himself up when he was accosted by the police. The shooting of an unarmed black man was also a hate crime although the media and the DOJ will put a spin on it to classify it as something else.

He was only twenty-two years old, a father with a future denied by men in blue. A life cut short was instantly criminalize by the media to justify the killing of this unarmed man. He may not have known of the police presence as he stood in his grandmother’s back yard with cell phone in hand. You heard on the video the police command to “show your hands,” immediately followed by a barrage of gun shots. He had no time to comply for the shoots came instantaneously at a rapid pace after the last word of the police officer’s command. He joins a long list of unarmed black men whose life was cut short by members of Americas’ police departments. In this nation many suffer from a racist disease gone pandemic, it shows itself as; The Killing of Unarmed Black Citizens by Law enforcers.

We march in protest, angered by this and many similar incidents. For sure this was a deliberated act of murder. The police departments knows the Department of Justice will see to it that they are not held accountable for their use of deadly force. They will be acquitted to roam the streets, to do it all over again.  Most Black people have seen this recurring scenario and concluded this is an undeclared war on them.  Its clear to them that the attacking force is the police departments who are behind the killings of several unarmed black people and the DOJ who gives them a free pass to commit murder of black folks. The black community march in protest feeling very anxious that if left uncontrolled this will become a hot war. They are debating among themselves weighting the consequences of that occurrence. Should they continue marching and protesting or has logic dictates that they should take up arms and defend themselves from the law enforcement killers. As we martyrize Micah Xavier Johnson for sacrificing his life as he took a courageous stand against the police homicides of black men, we hope other young men will not follow in his footsteps. However, it’s not inconceivable to think they won’t due to the constant, senseless, racially tainted murders of young black men by police officers.  

As they weight the consequences of a guerrilla warfare here in the USA they also seek other options to resolve these issues. The DOJ actions bears resemblance to their actions during the Jim Crow era when they were complicit with the actions of the white supremacist.  Post-Civil war to the 1960’s the KKK and other white supremacy factions waged a war of terror against the black population. They lynched them thousands, they douse them in gasoline and roasted them at the stake. They shot many to death, emptying the magazines of their guns on many unfortunate black persons and after the killing they mutilated their dead bodies. They did a lot of sadistic things to black people for more than a century, all during that time Congress and Federal Government stood by and watched. The Government did nothing to protect its black citizens as they suffered through those barbaric incidents predominantly in the southern states in American. Recently the Federal government apologized for their inaction. However, the barbarism continues as law enforcement officers set upon us, using deadly force against unarmed black citizens and again the government is doing nothing about it.

Will they sit back and allow History to repeat itself, we black people definitely won’t allow it.

Recently in Austin, Texas a mad bomber terrorized the black communities. He sent one of his bombs to an address where a 17-year-old honour student dwelled. The student was killed by the blast of this weapon. His life cut short, was further disrespected by the police chief of Austin who disregard the life of the victim and chose to focus and harangue on the life of the bigoted terrorist. He attempted to persuade others the bomber was a misguided soul who was to be empathized, regardless of his heinous deeds. He was even apprehensive to declare the bomber a domestic-terrorist, why? Because the young bomber was Caucasian and he the police chief wanted to positively guide the public perception of this heartless killer. He mentioned nothing of the young black man who as a honour student that was accepted to four universities including Howard which he planned to attend. He could not criminalize this black youth so he chose to ignore him. This is a constant with law enforcement when the victims are black and the perpetrators are white. We saw that with Dylan Roof who shot and killed nine people in a church while they were worshipping. The officers upon apprehending Roof, place him in a bullet proof vest to protect him, then they treated him to McDonalds. This form of bonding amazes me, it’s as if they are paying homage to the perp, thanking him for doing something they have thought of doing but is unable to, but they are doing it, killing one black person at a time. The numbers add up as we look into police use of deadly force against black citizens across this nation.    

 In 2015, 315 black persons were killed by law enforcement.