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more and more this is becoming the battle of “me vs we”. This “the left hates black capitalists” argumentis a strawman if I ever saw one. I understand the principle. Capitalism is there for people who can take advantage of it. But what do those numbers look like? What do those numbers look like for black people? The vast majority of people don’t and won’t find success in the frame work to the extent of the lil Wayne’s or the ice cubes within the current economic frame work. Creating a system that caters towards them will just continue the status quo. Meanwhile regular black peoples have to compete with their white counterparts that have a 200 year plus wealth gap, underfunded schools, and the criminal justice still ravaging the neighborhoods. Capitalism doesn’t fix that. Lil Wayne isn’t a black capitalist, he’s a black man participating in white capitalism.
Angela Davis once said that the problem with black men and white women was that they aspire to be in the same position as white men and the problem with that is that white men's power comes from oppression.
If we truly want an equitable society, we must aspire for something different, something better. My mother voted for Biden and then voted conservative for state positions. When I frustratedly asked her why she would that, the short answer was money. For her, the potential economic benefit was greater than the guaranteed social detriment. And this is the trade-off all black capitalists (there is no better descriptor) comfortably engage in. I refuse to be a part of that.