Basking or Growing: the Black Decision.
Have you ever tried to get some friends to do something that would be epic! But it just won’t come together? What could be worse than having all the best resources but being unable to pull those resources together? It’s like.. African Americans!
We move cultures forward at the change of a radio station. Create universal styles with the snap of a photo. It’s a fact to almosT anyone, that most American music is based in African roots. Especially now with the Afro pop rhythms that have made their way across the Atlantic. Most fashion trends are set by the black culture and especially now that celebrities are making their mark again in the fashion industry. FENTY taking the world by storm, even with some greats returning like Baby Phat to restate their claim. Atlanta is becoming its own “black Hollywood” arguably taking the title of the place to be. Hell even Black Gay colloquiums inevitably transcend color and even sexual boundaries.
Yet with us building all of these great cultural moments and such..why aren’t we benefiting? While many will argue that some of us do, they are not seeing the issue and the point of this. SOME of us are benefiting... not all of us. Since there is no logical reason as to why everyone can’t be, it needs to be addressed.
We need to figure out how everyone can benefit. Not just in a sense of basking in the glow of others.. but to make sure “everybody eats b”. Not just eating but learning what wealth is versus being rich. Building assists outside of jewelry, cars, and platinum plaques.
Some men don’t want to learn anything outside of what they know. Maybe in fear of the change but inevitably their complacency creates a cycle of UNeducated bystanders. Our queens could literally take over the world... but it’s too many unfocused. Petty, and fighting for clout and spots that can’t be “claimed.” Wasting time, and money of yours and others?
What about land, stocks & bonds? Something that will appreciate with time. Somehow we’ve been told about the importance of “guns and butter” but we haven’t taken it in. Only when someone has reached a pinnacle such as opening a black owned film studio, do we acknowledge the come up. Can we acknowledge the struggle? Will we ever see that we are all we got, all we need, and need to get out of our own way.
Awaiting Your Response,
Christopher Marquisè